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 Pedro Noguera About a month before I interviewed Pedro Noguera, the GraduateSchool of Education’s expert on school-place violence, San Francisco newspapersreported a story about a 14-year-old boy from Daly City — a San Francisco suburb. Theboy received a reprimand from a judge for not understanding what he had done wrong. Whathe had done was fire a .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol at his middle school principal. ERROR MSGStories like this are becoming commonplace across the country. Thenation mourned the deaths in the shootings that happened in Arkansas, Oregon and Colorado.And Noguera watched these developments closely. Austria HotelesBut what he has to report isn’t positive. He fears our unwisepoliticians would rather turn our schools into mini-prisons by beefing up security systemsrather than make our schools more nurturing by spending money on people who can helpstudents. ERROR MSGHowever, individual schools can make changes that make adifference. For instance, Noguera notes that one West Oakland school hired a grandmotherto supervise the children, and the students have shown more respect for her than the bigbody guards that usually monitor inner-city schools. “I’m not veryoptimistic because the politicians are not willing to do what I think is important, andthat’s to make investments in schools in the ways that count: BOOKS
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