2015/05/27 – A popularly cited statistic involves private corrections companies pouring over third-grade reading scores in a given jurisdiction to project how many prison beds will be needed in a decade, when those illiterate third graders go off track and run …..
2015/05/27 – CARROLLTON, Miss.— In the weeks leading up to Mississippi’s new third-grade literacy test this past April, Zanysha Amos, age 9, was a bundle of anxiety. She couldn’t eat; she couldn’t sleep. Ever-present worry furrowed her little brow. When Zanysha …..
2015/27/05 – Two students. One is black and the other is white. On Tuesday, they both refuse to complete the math worksheet. On Wednesday, neither will stop talking during lessons. Same behavior. Will they receive the same punishment? A new Stanford …..
2015/27/05 – Herman Crisp was just sitting outside, smoking a cigarette, in late September when, he says, Georgetown, Texas, deputies in full SWAT gear approached him with no warning and threw a “flash bang” explosive device at his residence. The explosion, …..
2015/05/26 – Hinds County officials said immediate actions are being taken to address the concerns raised in a report by the U.S. Department of Justice on the status of the troubled jail facilities in Jackson and Raymond. Those actions include …..
