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9-20-19 Education in the News
NJ Spotlight--Focusing on Childhood Traumas, Poverty Included Adverse childhood experiences — like poverty, violence, sexual abuse, divorce — can take a lifelong toll on kids that suffer them...'

Chalkbeat (via NJ Spotlight)--A Newark Student Dreams of Succeeding in College, but First ‘Boot Camp’ Yamin Reddick is ambitious and believes that the first step to achieving his ambitions is a college degree — and that’s not going to be easy...'

Star Ledger—Op-Ed: Charter school parents intervene in desegregation lawsuit. ‘Don’t scapegoat our schools,' they say...'

NJ Spotlight--Focusing on Childhood Traumas, Poverty Included

Adverse childhood experiences — like poverty, violence, sexual abuse, divorce — can take a lifelong toll on kids that suffer them

Childhood traumas have deep, complex connections to other seemingly intractable problems, like poverty and racism.

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/19/09/19/the-importance-of-focusing-on-childhood-traumas/

Lilo H. Stainton | September 20, 2019

 

 

Chalkbeat (via NJ Spotlight)--A Newark Student Dreams of Succeeding in College, but First ‘Boot Camp’

Yamin Reddick is ambitious and believes that the first step to achieving his ambitions is a college degree — and that’s not going to be easy

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/19/09/19/a-newark-student-dreams-of-succeeding-in-college-but-first-summer-boot-camp/

Patrick Wall | Chalkbeat | September 20, 2019

 

 

Star Ledger—Op-Ed: Charter school parents intervene in desegregation lawsuit. ‘Don’t scapegoat our schools,' they say.

We share the lawsuit’s goal of providing every child in New Jersey with a good school regardless of where they live or how much money they make. However, we intervened into this lawsuit because it mistakenly blames public charter schools for school segregation and we wanted to tell our stories.

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2019/09/charter-school-parents-intervene-in-desegregation-lawsuit-dont-scapegoat-our-schools-they-say.html

Ana Maria De La Roche Araque, Diane Gutierrez and Tafshier Cosby-Thomas| Star-Ledger Guest ColumnistUpdated Sep 19, 7:39 PM; Posted Sep 19, 9:42 AM