Question: How many
youths in the United States are incarcerated every day?
Answer/Quote: “On any given
day, more than 100,000 youths are incarcerated in the United States. Countless
more are considered ‘at-risk’ for incarceration, based on factors such as
homelessness, poverty, gang membership, substance abuse, grade retention, and
more.”
Quote:
“Unfortunately, gender and race can be considered risk factors as well. The
most recent Department of Justice (DOJ) census showed that 85% of incarcerated
teens are male…. Thirty-eight percent of the youths in the juvenile justice
system are black, and 19% are Hispanic…. The DOJ predicted that the juvenile
correctional population will increase by 36% by the year 2020, mostly because
of growth in the Hispanic male population.” P. 385.
Comment: The author suggests finding relevant books
in urban fiction to help students light the spark of reading. Maybe so. But I
think it’s going to take a lot more than that to help at-risk males for
incarceration to change their motivation for succeeding in reading and school.
RayS.
Title: “Using Urban
Fiction to Engage At-Risk and Incarcerated Youths in Literacy Instruction.”
Stephanie F. Guerra. Journal of
Adolescent and Adult Literacy (February
2012), 385-394.
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