Tag: Jessup Correctional Institution
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For Education, Against Credentialism
Today I’ll be addressing a group of imprisoned students, university administrators, and prison officials to inaugurate the University of Baltimore’s partnership with the US Department of Education and Jessup Correctional Institution to offer Bachelor’s Degrees. We have a few tasks today, including inspiring the students and encouraging the officials that their support for the program…
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Reprobation as Shared Inquiry: Teaching the Liberal Arts in Prison
One of the reasons I blog less than I used to is that in addition to running this journal I’ve been teaching and organizing a college program at Jessup Correctional Institution. (Although I think it was having a daughter that really sucked the wind out of my sails, blogging-wise.) Anyway, to prove I haven’t been…
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We’d all be better off if some of us decided to stay home.
A walkout makes sense. What makes less sense is coming back.