Level creates free educational content for people in prison. #OER #edtech #digitaldivide #creativecommons #equity #adulteducation #prisoneducation
Austin, TX
Joined February 2017
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Last year, California spent $15.4 billion on prisons and $4.2 billion on higher education. Priorities! davisvanguard.org/2022/07/my… #education #prison #massincarceration
"I refuse to be detained by my current circumstance at hand." Sent to us by Javontae, incarcerated in northern Florida
#vision #goals #education #prison #prisoneducation #prisonlife #wisdom
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What is the worst thing you have ever done? Write it on a sticker and put the sticker on the front of your shirt and wear it everywhere you go. Nothing you can ever do will cover that label up – everything is seen through that stain. This is a convict’s life – FOREVER
Are we going to educate, or incarcerate? Just finished the #reentry2030 launch event -> great advocacy from Nicole Jarrett, @MzDeHoskins, @ElgieSims and @DylanHayre. Inaction is a decision! Let's go forward reinventing #reetry from #prison with #education reentry2030.org/
Over the past 15 months, demand from people in prison for Level's educational material has increased a whopping 100%+ every month. And we're still in stealth mode. What does this tell you? #prisoneducation #OER #creativecommons #education learnlevel.org/impact/
Are you experienced in #CSUnplugged and #ComputationalThinking? Level is hiring a contract writer to adapt CS Unplugged content for low income adults. Fill out the Join Level form at learnlevel.org for more information.
🚨BIG ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
We are launching our next Level guide: Food Prep Certification! Job training resources are so crucial for helping prepare people to hit the ground running upon release, and we hope this guide will help them do exactly that.
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Mail bans give incarcerated people and their families one more reason to use paid communication options like phone calls, video calls, and tablets. Private vendors always profit from these services - and often, they kick back some of the revenue to the prisons.
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Last month Connecticut became the first state in the country to make prison phone calls free. It’s a huge victory for the incarcerated and their families and will transform the lives of children with incarcerated parents. Every single state should do this. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
“It’s no longer a luxury. This is serious. It’s really a social justice issue. It’s a 21st century civil rights issue.”
@CheptooKositany, advocate for closing the #digitaldivide, on the lack of reliable internet access for everyone.
Our team has been able to circulate thousands of our free educational guides across the country to fill the gap in prison education programs and supply incarcerated folks with job training manuals and content for personal skill development.
Here's Level, by the numbers:
"Access to higher education in prison should not depend on what state or facility confines an offender, which political party favors the idea and whether prison administrators are for or against rehabilitative efforts..."
"...If any prisoner seeks out and engages in higher education, that choice should be supported at every level."
Absolutely true. Necessary reading from incarcerated journalist Lyle C. May in @insidehighered
insidehighered.com/views/202…
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The gender #digitaldivide is real — but not for long.
Meet 8⃣young female technologists who translated the #gendergap into opportunity 🚀
unicef.org/stories/tech-trai… @UNICEF @UN_Women @girleffect @GirlsWhoCode
Amazing!
"It was my mom's letters and her photos that saved my life...I wanted to be able to help keep families connected the same way I was connected to my mom."
The amazing story of how @_marcus_bullock went from prison at 15 to CEO of @FlikShop. freethink.com/shows/ramen-pr…
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BREAKING! 📣 Connecticut Governor Lamont just signed SB 972 making all prison communication free! Connecticut went from dead last on prison phone justice to first! Congrats to all the brave families and advocates who fought for this.
Press release: worthrises.org/pressreleases…
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… Edwards said, “the estimate is that we got about 94,000 children in our state who have at least one of their parents or a caregiver incarcerated.” Via @FOX48tv #Louisiana #incarceration #parents bit.ly/2RJ8aBW
We’re seeing facilities across the country implement new measures to restrict access to books. This report about Iowa State Prisons is just the latest in a concerning trend.
iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news…
