Sunday, July 4, 2010
Inmate Education Provides Valuable Lessons For All - cbs3.com
Inmate Education Provides Valuable Lessons For All - cbs3.com
DAVID KARAS, The Times of Trenton
BORDENTOWN, N.J. (AP) ― Parents of some area college students are beginning to hear a declaration they may not have heard from their children before: "I'm going to prison now."
Facing budget cuts and simultaneous mandates for increased educational offerings to New Jersey's prison population, institutions such as the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility have opened their doors to volunteer college students and professors to provide instruction to inmates.
DOC spokesman Matt Schuman said that due to staff cuts, there will be 67 fewer positions department-wide in 2011, including recreation employees, teaching assistants, nontenured teachers and vocational instructors. As a result, there's an increased need for volunteers — and officials say volunteers have responded.
"We discovered an untapped resource," said Alfred Kandell, administrator at the Bordentown facility which houses about 1,300 male inmates ranging in age from 18 to 35. "Suddenly, volunteers started coming out of the woodwork."
On any given day, students and faculty from The College of New Jersey and Princeton University, as well as members of the Princeton community, can be found at the facility teaching classes, serving as teaching assistants, and tutoring inmates one-on-one in various subjects.
Kandell said about 30 volunteers come to the facility on a regular basis, though the faces change as students get jobs, start internships or take summer vacations.
Inmate Education Provides Valuable Lessons For All
BORDENTOWN, N.J. (AP) ― Parents of some area college students are beginning to hear a declaration they may not have heard from their children before: "I'm going to prison now."
Facing budget cuts and simultaneous mandates for increased educational offerings to New Jersey's prison population, institutions such as the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility have opened their doors to volunteer college students and professors to provide instruction to inmates.
DOC spokesman Matt Schuman said that due to staff cuts, there will be 67 fewer positions department-wide in 2011, including recreation employees, teaching assistants, nontenured teachers and vocational instructors. As a result, there's an increased need for volunteers — and officials say volunteers have responded.
"We discovered an untapped resource," said Alfred Kandell, administrator at the Bordentown facility which houses about 1,300 male inmates ranging in age from 18 to 35. "Suddenly, volunteers started coming out of the woodwork."
On any given day, students and faculty from The College of New Jersey and Princeton University, as well as members of the Princeton community, can be found at the facility teaching classes, serving as teaching assistants, and tutoring inmates one-on-one in various subjects.
Kandell said about 30 volunteers come to the facility on a regular basis, though the faces change as students get jobs, start internships or take summer vacations.
Schools across US offer to help Dana students - Boston.com
Schools across US offer to help Dana students
July 3, 2010
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BLAIR, Neb.—Schools across the country continue to step up to help Dana College students left in limbo following the school's decision this week to close.
Officials at the 126-year-old private college say there are written agreements with the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, to take in their nearly 650 students.
But more than 55 schools elsewhere in Nebraska and Iowa, as well as in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia and Washington have
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WEST MILFORD — The Board of Education has heard redistricting proposals from two consultants as it prepares for a possible school closure at the end of the 2010-11 year.
For next year, the elementary school enrollment is expected be down by almost 300 students — or the approximate enrollment of the Paradise Knoll School — since 2007-08. Since its peak in 2003-04, total enrollment is expected to drop by about 800 students.
With that decrease and the 2004 Highlands Act’s restrictions on new development in the watershed township, school officials are considering a school closing — and ensuing redistricting — to save money. But they are unsure if it is the right decision for the system.
For next year, the elementary school enrollment is expected be down by almost 300 students — or the approximate enrollment of the Paradise Knoll School — since 2007-08. Since its peak in 2003-04, total enrollment is expected to drop by about 800 students.
With that decrease and the 2004 Highlands Act’s restrictions on new development in the watershed township, school officials are considering a school closing — and ensuing redistricting — to save money. But they are unsure if it is the right decision for the system.
Michael Hiltzik: Is outsourcing community college education serving students? - latimes.com
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