Safe to Learn is an ongoing investigative series by palabra exploring how communities define safety for their children and what those children need in order to develop their full potential in and out of the classroom.
Students’ experience of physical and emotional safety is crucial to their ability to learn, understand abstract concepts and advance educationally, according to psychological and neuroscience research.
The debate surrounding on-campus police has intensified against the backdrop of school shootings and the racial reckoning ignited by the George Floyd tragedy. But who supports this intervention – and who opposes it – may be surprising, and their opposing views underscore the tension that pulls at the fabric of diverse communities across the U.S.
Her mother’s prison term turned her life upside down, but now Jade Green is leading an organization that’s transforming the lives of young people who have been involved in the justice system — inside a former youth detention center converted into a place of education and triumph.
How to stem the deadly tide? Latino communities mobilize amid a rise in fentanyl-related deaths.