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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

The Hechinger Report

NEW ORLEANS — School absences were rare for Lorenzo Elliott, the drum major of the George Washington Carver High School band and an honor roll student with a 96 percent attendance rate. He was a responsible kid, eager to learn,” said Rhodes. Often, they can’t,” said Robert Schwartz , a visiting scholar at Temple University James E.

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The Prison to College Pipeline

The Hechinger Report

He adds, “Differential association—I learned that in one of my criminal theory classes.” Under the old felony murder rule, which California reformed in 2019, Conner was charged as if he’d pulled the trigger. For Project Rebound participants, the recidivism rate is less than 1 percent; for John Irwin House residents, it’s zero. “I

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. One survey conducted this year (by Learning House) did give a boost to the argument online education is becoming more competitive. ” Or so the story goes.

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