On the Becker-Posner Blog, Judge Richard Posner, who sits on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and continues to teach at the University of Chicago Law School and Gary Becker, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who also teaches at the University of Chicago routinely take a dueling-banjos approach to the most interesting and often controversial ideas [...]
As noted in the New York Times article De-emphasis on Race in Adoption Is Criticized, the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute has released a report entitled Finding Families for African American Children: The Role of Race & Law in Adoption from Foster Care. The report focuses on the effect of the Multiethnic Placement Act:
Adoption of [...]
From Blackboard Jungle and Stand and Deliver to Dangerous Minds and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, our social perception of the function of school in the lives of children that is reflected through movies is generally exaggerated and surreal. The French cinema has lately turned out two documentaries reflecting a less sensationalist portrait of our most [...]
Slate: Underage Drinking
Video: Free Minds - WJLA-TV
The Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop works with youth in the DC Jail. It is a book club that meets and discusses their readings. They also write poetry. Some of the youth who leave DC Jail, work for the Campaign for Youth Justice over a semester. It is their [...]
