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Direct linkOlsen, Ken – Teaching Tolerance, 2005
This article explains how Street Law helps teachers to defuse tensions between students and police through a combination of education, empathy, and expertise. Street Law was born at Georgetown in 1972. Every year, it sends two dozen law students like Courtney Donovan into Washington, D.C., high schools to help teach the year long course. Street…
Descriptors: Law Students, Empathy, Civil Rights, Police School Relationship
