“The students, most of them with disabilities, scratch the windows or tear at the padded walls. They throw their bodies against locked doors. They wet their pants. Some children spend hours inside these rooms, missing class time. Through it all, adults stay outside the door, writing down what happens … Children were sent to isolation after refusing to do classwork, for swearing, for spilling milk, for throwing Legos. School employees use isolated timeout for convenience, out of frustration or as punishment, sometimes referring to it as ‘serving time.'” An investigative report from ProPublica and the Chicago Tribune. The Quiet Rooms: Children are being locked away, alone and terrified, in schools across Illinois. Often, it’s against the law.

+ “By day, New York’s 114,085 homeless students live in plain sight: They study on the subway and sprint through playgrounds. At night, these children sometimes sleep in squalid, unsafe rooms, often for just a few months until they move again. School is the only stable place they know.” And interactive piece from the NYT: 114,000 Students in N.Y.C. Are Homeless. These Two Let Us Into Their Lives.