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| Improving learning inside Folsom prison |
| By theguardian.com |
| Published: 04/04/2016 |
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“Everyone is entitled to an education,” says Pearson’s Erin Smith. “Some of us just come to different opportunities at different stages in life.” Erin has spearheaded a project along with colleagues Lee Anne Fisher and Kathryn Bass to put several dozen Pearson classroom e-books in the hands of about 300 inmates at California’s Folsom Prison. She’s working with tech company Innertainment Delivery Systems (IDS) to deliver these books digitally on secure, controlled tablets. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) uses these eReaders for inmates working towards credits in college courses across the state’s prison system through something called the Voluntary Education Program, or VEP. Read More. |
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