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Inspiring Rikers Teacher Runs Afoul of Jail's Rules

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Inspiring Rikers Teacher Runs Afoul of Jail's Rules By MICHAEL WINERIP Published: January 25, 2006 JEFF KAUFMAN, a teacher at the Rikers Island jail, has a reputation as a good educator who cares about his student inmates. In 2004, without the aid of computers, his students finished first in a citywide stock market game competition against more than 50 high schools. Jeff Kaufman taught at Island Academy, the Rikers Island jail school, for eight years. After a complaint from the principal, he was removed from Rikers and reassigned despite praise from peers and inmates. Elizabeth Lesher, who oversees the competition, said that at most schools, "students gather around computers, research stocks via Web sites such as Yahoo Finance, Market Watch or Nasdaq and enter their transactions online...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 23, 2008 (boomark / email).