When Juvenile Crimes Mean Decades of Incarceration Part 3: The Voices of Students Excluded from School

By Alice Doyel Guest blogger   “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin   We Listen to These Student Voices to Face What They Experience By writing Prelude to Prison: Student Perspectives on School Suspension, Marsha Weissman gives suspended and expelled students … Read more When Juvenile Crimes Mean Decades of Incarceration Part 3: The Voices of Students Excluded from School

When Juvenile Crimes Mean Decades of Incarceration Part 2 of 4: The Preschool to Prison Pipeline

By Alice Doyel Guest blogger   Click on each book to hear and watch these stories on YouTube, especially with children. Spoiler Alert: Sojourner Truth’s years as a slave were more severe than Frederick Douglass’ These are just three out of the hundreds of books for preschoolers and young children available from public libraries with … Read more When Juvenile Crimes Mean Decades of Incarceration Part 2 of 4: The Preschool to Prison Pipeline

When Juvenile Crimes Mean Decades of Incarceration Part 1 of 4: Historic Background

By Alice Doyel Guest blogger   Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest minds in American history, was born into slavery in the early 1800s. Douglass would live to see the Civil War, Emancipation, Black men getting the right to vote with the 15th amendment, and the beginning of the terrors and humiliations of … Read more When Juvenile Crimes Mean Decades of Incarceration Part 1 of 4: Historic Background