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Politics

September 23, 2020 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Voting and Elections in YA Lit

A brief look at voting and elections in YA literature

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Teen contributor Riley Jensen talks about trying to navigate politics in the classroom.

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Screening The 13th: Questions to ask yourself #SJYALit

I recently heard about how “video visits” were growing in popularity with prisons. As the details unfolded, my initial impression of interest (“Oh that’s nice – families could maybe see their incarcerated loved ones more often or from greater distances.”) turned to revulsion. The strategy is being used largely by local jails as a way to […]

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The 2017 Beloit College Mindset List was released today, and it is worth a read, as always.  Go ahead and take a look now if you haven’t already. I was already in college when the first Mindset List was released for the class of 2002, but I recall my friends and I poring over it (found […]

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For the purposes of this post, it is really important that we come together as advocates for youth and leave behind our own personal political opinions.  Really, you’ll understand what I mean in a moment. Regardless of what you may think about the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS) and it’s message, I for one am […]

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