U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OFFICIAL VISITS PHILADELPHIA TO
MEET WITH YOUTH TO DISCUSS COLLEGE ACCESS AND COMPLETION
Alberto Retana, the U.S. Department of Education’s director of community outreach, will travel to Philadelphia on Wednesday, Aug. 11, to meet with a diverse group of youth to discuss college access and completion. He will engage them in a discussion on how school, family and community can help them establish and promote a culture where college graduation is the norm rather than the exception. The discussion will take place from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11, at the Philadelphia Student Union, 4205 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. The visit to Philadelphia is part of a National Youth Listening Tour that will engage students and use their feedback to inform federal policies on turnaround strategies for low-performing schools, enhance family engagement to support student achievement, improve graduation rates, and promote efforts to meet the President’s national goal of once again leading the world in college completion by 2020.
The Nonviolence workshop, which was created by PSU students, uses small
group dialogue, sharing of personal experiences, 'gradient of
agreement,' and facilitated discussion to help participants understand
the definition of structural violence as well as interpersonal
violence. The workshop introduces the definition of violence as a way
of exerting power that hurts other people’s chances of survival. It also
encourages participants to understand that nonviolence is actually a
very active and powerful way of life that includes standing up against
injustice.
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