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Peer reviewedStoehr, Taylor – Change, 2005
Early in 2004 the New England Board of Higher Education bestowed its annual award for excellence on Changing Lives Through Literature. A 1991 experiment that has spread by word of mouth through a dozen courts in Massachusetts, Changing Lives puts the classroom study of literature at the core of an alternative-sentencing program for criminal…
Descriptors: Criminals, Adult Education, Recidivism, Adult Literacy
