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| Educating juveniles in the justice system |
| By chicagotribune.com- Micah J. Miner |
| Published: 03/17/2014 |
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"I am getting 15 years on Monday," my 16-year-old student said to me. On his 17th birthday, he will be woken, shackled and transported to the Cook County Department of Corrections and the notoriously overcrowded Cook County Jail. He may get out of prison by age 30, but many of the 16- and 17-year-olds I teach are looking at prison sentences of 25 years or more. Each day as I enter my classroom, I ask myself: Are we rehabilitating juveniles or abandoning them to become lifetime offenders who will be incarcerated for most, if not all, of their lives? And if we're rehabilitating them, what should their education look like? It is that time in the academic year when we focus on measuring our students' educational growth. The Common Core State Standards assessments, and new teacher evaluation systems, have profoundly impacted how I teach and what my students learn. Despite the inherent difficulties of implementing Common Core in the environment in which I teach, I have embraced the new standards and the ways they can improve student learning and my own performance. Read More. |
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