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Sarah Gonzalez

Sarah Gonzalez is the multimedia education reporter for WLRN's StateImpact Florida project. She comes from NPR in D.C. where she was a national desk reporter, web and show producer as an NPR Kroc Fellow. The San Diego native has worked as a reporter and producer for KPBS in San Diego and KALW in San Francisco, covering under-reported issues like youth violence, food insecurity and public education. Her work has been awarded an SPJ Sigma Delta Chi and regional Edward R. Murrow awards. She graduated from Mills College in 2009 with a bachelorâ

Education
12:48 pm
Tue September 11, 2012

Corporal Punishment In Schools: Does It Work?

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Originally published on Tue September 11, 2012 1:46 pm

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This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington. To many people, a teacher spanking a student for starting a fight or talking back in class might seem like a relic of distant times, but it's more common than you might think. Though the trend is down, as recently as six years ago, a quarter of a million students were spanked at school, and laws in 19 states allow corporal punishment.

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Education
2:20 am
Wed September 5, 2012

Florida Schools In Session, But Teachers Absent

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Thousands of students in Florida are starting the school year without permanent teachers.
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Shannon Fusco is the principal of DeSoto High School, one of the Florida schools having trouble replacing teachers who left over summer vacation.
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Sue Knight is a substitute teacher at DeSoto High School in Florida. Last year, she taught science. This year, she's in the classroom teaching Spanish.
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Originally published on Wed September 5, 2012 3:46 am

Schools have been open for a couple of weeks across much of Florida, but not all of the students know who their teachers are yet. There's typically a lot of teacher turnover during the summer break, and schools can't always get vacant teaching positions filled by the time school starts.

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