Stanford study finds why writing a letter to a teacher can turn around the lives of some students [edsource.org]
By Carolyn Jones, October 19, 2021 F ormerly incarcerated students who wrote letters to their teachers — describing their hopes and dreams, asking for a second chance — were less than half as likely as their peers to return to jail, a Stanford University study found. Researchers spent two years working with about 50 students in Oakland Unified who had spent time in the county’s juvenile justice system and had recently returned to their regular schools. Researchers asked the students to write...