Textualizing the American incarceration experience is a difficult task. How is one to put into language the absurd cruelty of its vision, the oppressiveness of its architecture, the inhumanity of its owners, the vacuity of its violence? We all know our mass incarceration trivia: Texas currently imprisons over 250,000 people, the United States is the undisputed international champion of depositing people behind bars, currently almost 2.3 million, and so on.

Quantitative trivia can obscure an understanding of mass incarceration for what it really is: the deliberate, conscious outcome of policies designed by the ruling class to conquer minorities, particularly Latinx, immigrant and black communities. A forceful reassertion of elite power against the destabilizing social movements of the 60s.

A byproduct of this move toward incarceration is that millions have been forcibly deprived of their right to an education, a gap that remains largely unaddressed by public universities.

In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander claims that mass incarceration embodies the evolved form of 20th century Jim Crow laws. Americas racial caste system originating in slavery never ended; it merely assumed a new face.

Once youre labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, educational opportunities, food stamps and other public benefits, exclusion from jury service are suddenly legal, Alexander wrote.

The violence of being branded as a felon is often compounded by the startling lack of educational resources within prisons. Underresourced libraries, censored reading lists, lack of vocational and college courses and similar methods of depriving access to knowledge persist, defuncting prison education programs.

Yet, all prisoners have is time. Time combined with real opportunities for learning generates unbounded human potential. Hidden deep within the inmate population are incredible scholars, poets, community leaders, welders and gardeners waiting to emerge if only given the opportunity to learn.

In 2017, some UT-Austin faculty founded the Texas Prison Education Initiative. The program represents the first organized, interdepartmental effort to offer prisoners a college experience that exceeds a one-off course. The initiative sends volunteer UT-Austin professors to teach prisoners college-level courses, such as introductory sociology and rhetoric classes. Taught through UT-Extension, prisoners accrue transferable college course credit they can utilize upon release. Its vision is to provide free, high-quality university education for the incarcerated.

We try to make the classroom feel like a classroom doing things like calling students students, not inmates, said Sarah Brayne, UT sociology assistant professor and director of Texas Prison Education Initiative. Theyve been out of school for a long time, and many have had alienating educational experiences, so really fostering their identity as a student and being very affirming about that stuff is really important.

Understandably, the program is a huge time commitment professors physically drive to the prisons, which could be an hour-long drive, and parcel out their own time preparing the class, lecturing, grading and so on for an entire semester. Its selfless, virtuous work.

The administrative functions of running the course, such as registration or processing grades, are done through UT-Extension, a program that charges the intiative $125 per student. With hundreds of students, administrative costs accumulate not even including books, dictionaries and journals. Because affordability precedes accessibility, the initiative fundraises from the general public to free the prisoners from having to pay out of pocket.

Texas Prison Education Initiative is doing the important and necessary work of trying to incrementally improve a fundamentally heartless institution. They are no substitute for a mass social movement capable of reforming incarceration as we know it, but nonetheless, they represent an important, concerted effort to minimize damage.

UT-Austin is the flagship school of a state that imprisons more people than any other. UT should increase education access for prisoners by using its endowment money to financially bankroll the program. This means paying all of its UT-Extension and course-related fees, subsidizing its expansion by paying professors to go teach classes and giving professors stipends for buying classroom materials such as books and notebooks.

Access to higher learning is a basic human right, meaning public universities like UT-Austin and other institutions that ostensibly celebrate the common ideal must unflinchingly defend the rights of those most dispossessed.

Lee is a sociology senior from Houston.

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BEIJING, Sept. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --TAL Education Group ("TAL" or the "Company") (TAL), a leading K-12 after-school tutoring services provider in China, today announcedthat it will release its unaudited financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 ended August 31, 2019, before the market opens on Thursday, October 24, 2019.

The Company will host a corresponding conference call and live webcast at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (8:00 p.m. Beijing Time) on Thursday, October 24, 2019.

The dial-in details for the live conference call are as follows:

- U.S. toll free:

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A live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of TAL's website at https://ir.100tal.com/.

A telephone replay of the conference call will be available through 8:59 a.m. on November 1, 2019, U.S. Eastern Time (8:59 p.m. on November 1, 2019, Beijing Time).

The dial-in details for the replay are as follows:

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AboutTAL Education GroupTAL Education Group is a leading K-12 after-school tutoring services provider in China. The acronym "TAL" stands for "Tomorrow Advancing Life", which reflects our vision to promote top learning opportunities for Chinese students through both high-quality teaching and content, as well as leading edge application of technology in the education experience. TAL Education Group offers comprehensive tutoring services to students from pre-school to the twelfth grade through three flexible class formats: small classes, personalized premium services, and online courses. Our tutoring services cover the core academic subjects in China's school curriculum as well as competence oriented programs. The Company's learning center network currently covers over 50 key cities in China.

We also operate http://www.jzb.com, a leading online education platform in China. Our ADSs trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TAL".

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By: Dustin Comm, Maranatha Volunteers International

In the northeast of India lies one of the very first Seventh-day Adventist schools ever opened in the country. Located in the state of Jharkhand (meaning bushland), the Khunti Adventist School has a quiet, rural setting but a booming enrollment. More than 1,300 students attend the school, which opened in 1937.

The campus started with humble beginnings. The Adventist families in the community constructed a mud-hut classroom with a thatched roof and hand-dug a water well. Since then, the school has grown from a single building to todays sprawling 37-acre (15-hectare) campus, with classrooms for elementary and high school students, dormitories, a cafeteria, and staff housing.

Although it is a Christian school in a majority Hindu region, the Khunti school has come to be regarded with distinction. The people around it live in villages and lead simple lives, earning wages through a trade like tailoring or pottery-making. As one of the only English-speaking schools in the area, families are eager for their children to attend Khunti, where they also learn about Jesus and the Bible.

Student Arzoo Warsi comes from a Muslim family but has attended the Khunti school, where she learns about Christianity. I learned many things about Christ, Warsi said. I learned how to read the Bible. I learned how to pray to God in every situation not only in need but in every situation, when I am happy or sad. I carry one Bible always with me, and in the morning and before going to bed, I read it, and I pray to God. Whenever Im alone I feel lonely I open my Bible and pray to God. God has helped me.

Warsi is one of many students at Khunti who are not Christian. Like Warsi, they are also learning about the love of Jesus by going to a Christian school. Because of the quality of education that students receive at Khunti, non-Christian families are willing to send their children to an Adventist school.

Christians have a special place in the society, says V. P. Singh, president of the Adventist Church in northern India. Although some people do not like to become Christians for various reasons, they know Christians are good people, and the education that they get in Christian schools is good. In fact, those who oppose Christianity or conversion, they themselves want to [be] educated in our schools.

Because of the demand, the Khunti school could increase its enrollment, but it simply doesnt have the space. Each year the school turns hundreds of families away. Classrooms are crowded, elementary grade classrooms are scattered throughout campus, and there is no space large enough for the entire school to assemble. Deteriorating buildings are also a deterrent for prospective and existing families. With the campus being more than 80 years old, many structures haveleaky roofs, crumbling walls, and broken windows.

When parents come to the school, they actually look for the infrastructure, said former principal Ramesh Fendall. Good classrooms. And that we do not have. Once they see the classroom and the facilities, for elementary especially, they go back. They dont come. They take applications but never come back with the applications. Many of the parents also give suggestions that we update ourselves, make good infrastructure for the children to have good education.

Suleman Topmo is one of the schools teachers. He has spent much of his life at the Khunti school; growing up, his parents worked on the farm operated by the school. We dont have proper classrooms, Topmo said. They arent wellequipped and are very old. They are the same classrooms I studied in when I was a student! Students are increasing, but classrooms are getting crowded. We are really facing a problem to get more students.

In 2018, Maranatha Volunteers International agreed to construct a 12-classroom school building on the campus of the Khunti school. The new structure could house elementary grades, provide a space for assemblies during the week, and host church on Saturday (Sabbath).

In April 2018, Maranatha broke ground on the project, and over the past year, 115 volunteers helped construct the new building.

Compared to many of the structures we construct around the world, the scale of this building is different because its simply much larger, said Kyle Fiess, Maranathas vice president of projects. At more than thirteen thousand square feet, it is a large steel structure with long spans, so it can take more time to complete. Yet, as large as it is, it is simple enough that volunteers can still help build it.

On May 2, 2019, a special dedication was held with more than 1,000 people in attendance. Maranatha president Don Noble was present to participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

This building is much more than a structure, Noble said. Future Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders come through this school, and it provides a less-fortunate area with opportunities they wouldn't otherwise have.

The building was made possible, in part, by a generous gift from the Krueger family inmemory of Sue Krueger. Krueger, a long-time volunteer and supporter of Maranatha, had a passion for education and a special affinity for India, and the building is named in her honor.

After the ceremony, students and teachers explored their new classrooms. These large, clean classrooms are a far cry from the old, deteriorating buildings. Students and teachers smiles showed their approval. And when enrollment opens in January 2020, there should be even more smiles.

One of the parents at the dedication told me his daughter didnt want to go to school at Khunti anymore because of the conditions, so they pulled her out, Noble said. Then they sawthe construction going on, and with this new building, shell be returning to the school next year.

The excitement or the new school building extends beyond the Khunti campus. Families are taking notice, and children who have never heard of Jesus may soon be attending the school. One of the first Adventist schools in India that started with a mud hut now has a substantial building to be a beacon for the gospel for years to come.

New principal Patmas Murmu knows this building will make a big difference in sustaining Adventist education into the future.

On behalf of the school I would like to thank the donors for helping the students in getting their Christian education and hope someday these children in return will come out good and serve the community at large in their surroundings, Murmu said.

The original version of this story appeared in Maranatha Volunteers Internationals Spring 2019 issue of The Volunteer magazine.

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San Mateo County will need to fill about 2,500 teaching spots by 2025 to keep pace with the growing need for early childhood education programs, according to a 2016 early learning facilities needs assessment for the county.

The study also predicts that between now and 2025,

there will be a shortage of 14,000 classroom spots for children anticipated to live in the county who would be eligible for such programs, according to the assessment.

With these statistics in mind, Menlo Park-based nonprofit Community Equity Collaborative partnered with Foothill College in Los Altos Hills in 2018 to create the Teacher Pipeline Program. The aim: to boost the number of high-quality early education teachers in the area.

The program for this school year will begin next Monday (Sept. 23) and includes early childhood education courses through the community college, along with meals, child care, coaching and loaner laptops, all free of charge.

"The Teacher Pipeline Program has the potential to become a model for how we can successfully bring new educators into the workforce to address the teacher shortage, expand our capacity to serve more children and professionalize the field," said Peggy Pizzo, director of Stanford University's Early Learning Project, in a prepared statement. "The benefits of such collaborative efforts go beyond its participants or partners as many are watching and hoping for archetypes that can be replicated and scaled."

In its first year as a pilot program, the Teacher Pipeline offered classes in Redwood City through Foothill's child development department.

This year, students can also take classes, which run from September to June, at the Menlo Park outpost of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula.

Students can participate in the program to simply bolster their skills, or they can follow one- and two-year pathways to becoming an assistant teacher or a teacher in early childhood classrooms. Courses include child growth and development, prenatal through early childhood; positive behavior management; and how to plan art activities.

For Olivia Saachi, a teacher's aide at the Early Learning Center preschool in Menlo Park, the program offered her a chance to brush up on her prior early learning training and the latest best practices in early childhood education. Saachi, one of the 40 students who took classes in the program last year, plans to enroll in classes this year as well.

The classes "made me much more mindful about how I would talk with children," she said.

Program organizers provide students and their families with dinner 30 minutes before weeknight classes and snacks on Saturdays. The Boys and Girls Club provides programming for children ages 6 to 12 and child care for infants to 5-year-olds on weekday evenings.

One student said the child care and meals helped make it possible for her to take the classes.

"For a single mother, the fact [that I can go to school and have my child at the school day care is phenomenal," she said in a prepared statement from the Community Equity Collaborative.

This student's story illustrates why Community Equity Collaborative leaders thought the program would help bring more people into the early childhood learning field: its access to child care for people who otherwise might not be able to complete such coursework.

"The ROI (return on investment) is pretty remarkable," said Dayna Chung, co-founder of the Community Equity Collaborative, which was formed in 2017 to organize local groups to solve educational inequities. "Communities are paying the price by not having as many women engaged in the workforce and people are definitely needing these child care spaces."

The Redwood City and Menlo Park City school districts are also partners in the collaborative, helping to spread the word about the program. Pati Ortiz, the Redwood City district's community-school partnerships director, helped connect program organizers with SparkPoint, which offers individual online financial and career coaching, Chung said.

This school year, the program is operated through $125,000 in private donations, according to Heather Hopkins, a Community Equity Collaborative co-founder. Half of this funding goes toward tuition costs, she said. These funds also go toward child care expenses, meals and other program expenses.

The nonprofit is pursuing grants to help fund the program that could be used during the second half of the school year, according to the group.

The collaborative held 2019-20 program information sessions earlier this month in Menlo Park and Redwood City to welcome participants and program partners.

Classes in Menlo Park will run from 6:30 to 8:20 p.m. on Mondays and every other Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. Classes in Redwood City will run from 6 to 7:50 p.m. on Wednesdays and every other Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12:50 p.m.

Registration is open until the first day of classes on Sept. 23, or until classes are full, here. There are about 40 student slots in Menlo Park and 50 in Redwood City, Chung said.

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Florida A&M Universitys Office Of International Education and Development is set to premiere its latest project, Curating Culture. The web-based show, which is sponsored by the OIED, will focus on global issues and the effects they have on various cultures.

Examples of these issues include, but are not limited to, health, environment, technology, politics, cultural gentrification, as well as other topics.

Its founders, Cedrita Demus and Victoria V. Moore, believe that although a development or crisis may not originate in ones own country, the issues still affect the world as a whole.

Starting Curating Culture is important to me because it gives us, as a people, an opportunity to connect and engage with the world around us in a meaningful way, said Demus.

The goal for me is to create a pathway of empathy and connection. Creating a platform that shows the audience were not as different as we think and to recognize the small things about ourselves and our families in the stories of others.

Moore also believes that by creating the platform, it will encourage other cultures to live peacefully among each other.

I believe its important to showcase aspects of various cultures for all to see, understand and hopefully respect, she said.

Whether or not we agree with each others customs, cultures and religious practices is another story, but I think the basis of living peacefully amongst each other should be understanding.

The show will be an 8-14 week broadcast program during both the fall and spring semesters of the 2019-2020 academic school year. Each episode will explore an individual topic and approved special guests will be featured on the show based on their relationship to the area of study.

Whats even more amazing about this new development is that Curating Culture is seeking to provide opportunities for journalism students to gain experience in interviewing, filming, editing, news writing and more.

Rashad Ingram, a graduate of Florida A&M University, said he wished there was a platform such as Curating Culture that he couldve been involved with during his time at FAMU.

This is honestly a really good idea. There are so many different cultures that exist on campus, Im interested in seeing them merge together, said Ingram.

I would have raced at an opportunity like this had it been available when I was in school, because I love learning about new things concerning the world around us.

Demus and Moore hope to partner with FAMUs official television network, but in the meantime the show will premiere starting Oct. 12 on YouTube under the username Curating Culture TV.

Students who are interested, can sign up to volunteer at OIED located in Room 302 in Perry Paige. After doing so, they will be assigned a specific topic to cover based on their area of interest.

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Catfishing gameshow The Circle came back for a second series tonight with a new presenter at the helm.

Emma Willis, who has taken over from Maya Jama and Alice Levine, says the programme is a brilliant vehicle for telling people to be aware of who theyre talking to online.

Contestants on The Circle, which this year also includes celebrity participants such as Richard Madeley, solely communicate with each other by social media in a bid to be the most popular person.

While celebs profiles will be determined by viewers using a new app, everyone else will use a profile that they have designed themselves and this means they can pretend to be anyone they want to be in order to claim the 100,000 prize.

Before Id watched it, I was like, This is glorifying what is wrong with social media, where anyone can be anyone. You dont know who youre talking to, admits Emma.

But I hadnt watched it and that was just my opinion. After watching it, I thought its a brilliant vehicle for education, in the way that the game is showing you that you should be so wary of who youre talking to and anything that youre doing online.

Emma, who posed, right, in a string of alter-egos to highlight how easy it is to fake your identity, says she has a healthy relationship with social media. But she admits she likes to keep it at arms length and that she is thoughtful when using it.

I guess I am anti-social on social media! I talk to people I know, but Im of the older generation, I dont trust anyone, she says.

Im always conscious of being realistic on it and painting a true picture of my life, rather than a version of me. I think thats the responsibility we should all be taking. Even if you have that strength I think we can all still get sucked into it.

It should be enjoyable and it should be either a tool for your trade or some way where you can express the things that you enjoy or that youre into, or to stay in touch with friends.

Theres a whole world of people listening, watching and judging. I dont mean edit yourself and only put the best version out there, but just be thoughtful.

Emma, 43, says Instagram is her favourite platform, despite being against it for a long time. I actually find Instagram a much more positive place than Twitter.

I think because its all based on a picture thats much easier and people want to see nice pictures, not nasty ones, she says. I wouldnt write anything that was offensive (on social media), and I try not to be judgmental.

Lifes too short for that. If thats your bag, get on with it. But for me its a waste of energy and time. Im here for happy reasons. None of that negative s***. Dont drag me into your pit.

With The Circle contestants having to move in to flats for over three weeks to participate in the show, its drawn comparisons to Big Brother, the programme Emma presented from 2014 to last years final ever series on Channel 5.

However, Emma says she sees it quite differently from Big Brother. I always viewed Big Brother with the purist mentality that it was a social experiment, she says.

I hated Big Brother being compared to a game, but I very much watch The Circle as a game, seeing who is going to be themselves and who is going to play it to try to be the most popular and win that money.

And she admits while shed love to see the return of Big Brother, which drew almost six million viewers in its heyday, there are no plans to bring it back.

I miss it so much and I think wed all love it to come back, says Emma. I get emotional thinking about it, but the reality of it is there are no plans to bring it back and you cant wait for something that might never happen.

Even if I did wait, they might not want me to do it, so what are you meant to do? Never work again because youre waiting for something that may never happen? So with The Circle it really felt like the right thing for me to do next.

And Emma, who has three young children Isabelle, Ace and Trixie with husband of 11 years, Busted singer Matt Willis, is extremely busy at the moment.

As well as hosting The Voice, she recently returned for the second series of the W Channels Delivering Babies, where she worked four shifts a week as a maternity care assistant. I like variety, I dont like to pigeonhole myself and I like working for different channels as well, she says. It keeps things interesting.

I often get asked about my bucket list and I should have some big answer, like, I really want to do this or that, but I just want to keep working.

I love my job and hopefully I can keep doing it for as long as possible. Thats my bucket list! I have pinch-me moments all the time.

I never ever, ever thought this would be my life. I kind of pinch myself every day, really its a cheesy answer, but its true!

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Apollo Hospitals, TACT Academy for Clinical Training, Zimmer Biomet HoldingsInc. (Zimmer Institute), Olympus America, Gundersen Health System, GE Healthcare, and Medical Training College

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After working in various industries, in various capacities, at companies of all sizes and shapes for more than 45 years, something is still a mystery to me: why training programs stick?

I may be the most over-trained individual you'll ever meet. My career started about the same time as Tom Peters and Bob Waterman published In Search of Excellence, a book that spawned an entire industry of corporate improvement initiatives that lives on today.

I took every course my employers offeredsome of them multiple times. I just could not get enough of getting better.

Part of that was ingrained because I was an athlete, a teacher, and a coach. I was used to going to practice every day, and even when I put on a suit and tie and nice shoes, I still wanted that edge that comes from daily practice.

I wanted, desperately, to learn. To sell better, to write better, to manage better, to think better.

And it wasn't about money because I never made much. Learning was good enough. Being good enough was good enough for me.

The problem is that training and development are human enterprises and in that nature are inherently flawed, misguided, mismanaged, and wasteful. Human capital, then, is still the most mismanaged asset in the world of work.

I think I know why.

Employee skills by themselves are not enough to create companies that operate on all cylinders all the time.

Everyone has worked in organizations that have had so much dysfunction going on that we couldn't overcome it well enough to keep the place moving forward. So, I have concluded that the work environmentthe cultureis as much a part of the answer as the training and development programs that are in place.

There are numerous concepts that seem obvious precursors to high employee satisfaction and performance, such as teamwork, profit-sharing, participative decision-making, autonomy, and sound job design.

We're also pretty sure that well-managed companies attract good people who, because they work at a cool place, tend to get close to their potential, and the cycle perpetuates itself as long as the managers who built the environment stick around.

It's circular. And it's difficult. And, often, it is unsustainable. And good training isn't always the answer. But you can "beat the system" when you have these things going for you:

When you are lacking in any of these vital areas, you are doomed to failure sooner or later. Though, on paper, all this does not sound that difficult to do.

Keep this in mind when you decide that the only difference between your company and sustainable success is a good training program. You may be wrong.

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Management Training, Sales Training, Whatever . . . Why It Doesn't Stick - ATD