President Obama gave a preliminary statement last Sunday right after the jury gave its verdict in the Trayvon Martin case, but then after watching the controversy unfold in the days that followed, he said yesterday (7/19/13) in the White House briefing room that he thought it might be useful to expand on that a bit. Besides the calmness in his voice and quiet in the room for those 17+ minutes, … [Read more...] about Kids these days: ‘Better than we were,’ the President says
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What school suspension ‘accomplishes’: Study
I hope school administrators will think about this when they're dealing with cyberbullying: suspending students is only effective as "a school-to-prison pipeline." That's a conclusion from "a study of nearly a million Texas children described as an unprecedented look at discipline," according to the Washington Post. The study analyzed 6.6 million records of every Texas 7th grader 2000-'02, … [Read more...] about What school suspension ‘accomplishes’: Study