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All posts tagged "prison education"
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902Guest Opinion EssayAs Second Chance Pell Grant program grows, more incarcerated people can get degrees – but there’s a difference between prison-run and college-run education behind bars
Only 15% of people earn a college degree or postsecondary certificate during their incarceration.
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833NewsHow an illicit cell phone helped me take college courses from prison
It’s also taught me digital literacy. Imagine getting out and not having this experience.
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773NewsLearning to thrive after doing time
"Prison education is where you change lives,” says Dyersburg Community College President Scott Cook.
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1.5KNewsQ&A: Mneesha Gellman examines the benefits of teaching Indigenous languages in public schools
The biggest lesson Mneesha Gellman learned, she said, is that policies don't "magically appear from on high" — they are handed down...
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssayEducation-minded prisoners thirst for more college prison programs
Most prisons aren’t built to promote healthy, human transformation, let alone to help people pursue a higher education. Most prisons don’t create...
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1.3KNewsQ&A: From Louisiana prisoner to Louisiana State University graduate
Within months of his release from a lifetime imprisonment sentence in Louisiana's 18,000-acre prison in Angola, La., Andrew Hundley, then 34, enrolled...
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1.5KFrom the BureausAt detention facilities offering high school diplomas, college classes are seen as next step
In mid-February 2022, 20 young men across eight of the facilities started working on an associate’s degree from Middlesex, becoming the first...
