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Sense And Sentencing: Our Imprisonment Epidemic, Michael A. Simons
Sense And Sentencing: Our Imprisonment Epidemic, Michael A. Simons
Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development
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Over the past thirty years, the most important sentencing development has not been the legislative adoption of mandatory guidelines, or the judicial creation of advisory guidelines, or the adoption of a wide variety of guidelines systems in the states, or the widespread elimination of parole, or the abandonment of rehabilitation as a sentencing goal. No, the most important sentencing development has been our rejection of the principal of parsimony: the notion that a sentence should be as long as - but no longer than - necessary to accomplish the goals of punishment. Instead, we have replaced parsimony with severity, …
Caught In A Time Warp: The Education Rights Of English Language Learners, Rosemary Salomone
Caught In A Time Warp: The Education Rights Of English Language Learners, Rosemary Salomone
Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development
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Although the United States has long experience in educating children from immigrant families, the role the home language should play in the education of those who are not proficient in English remains politically charged and unresolved. For the past four decades, since the first infusion of federal funds that support programs for what are now called "English Language Learners," this question has engaged educators, policy makers, and researchers in a heated debate centering on bilingual education versus English-Only instruction. The first approach generally uses the child's home language either as a transitional bridge to learning English or, less commonly, …