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“Stay out of my hair!”

The Hechinger Report

The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Related: Denver teachers are next to take to the picket line.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

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Johnson started at Collins in 2016 as an assistant principal and took the top job in 2020. She argues, in line with the international human rights position, that children are citizens, too, and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Over that period, the school rose from being labeled a D school to an A school.

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‘We’ve failed them’: How South Carolina education policy hurts ‘Dreamers’ — and costs taxpayers

The Hechinger Report

Allowing DACA recipients to get higher education and better-paying jobs translates into them paying more taxes — which in turn helps pay for the state’s public school system and other government services, said Andrew Lim, director of quantitative research at the New American Economy. As of 2016, Hispanic students made up 8.6

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

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In 2016, as a master’s student, I published an article in Boston University’s Pardee Periodical (now The Pardee Atlas: Journal of Global Affairs ) about a new initiative at the ASDC to support their students. Many of the people I know through my research in Jordan are Palestinian, have family in Palestine, and/or are of Palestinian descent.

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Black athletes can teach us about more than just sports

The Hechinger Report

Last Friday, in a political rally in Alabama, Trump attempted to bully NFL players who follow Kaepernick’s lead in taking a knee during the national anthem in protest of police brutality since 2016. government accountable for transnational militarism and domestic racism by refusing to be drafted for the Vietnam War in 1967. He’s fired!

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History Lesson: Did the election just erase 250 years of progress?

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In October 1945, Eleanor wrote about women in politics, “they need not function as a minority group unless they allow themselves to be pushed aside … If women want to take part in their local, state, and national governments today, they can do so with complete equality. Hillary obtained the votes. Conference in Beijing.

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Put more gender studies in schools’ sex ed courses

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Eight transgender people have died this year, and 22 transgender people died last year in the United States because of violence , according to the Human Rights Campaign. People are dying at the intersections of ignorance, gender, race and sex. It was the most ever recorded, according to the advocacy group. Teen pregnancy in the U.S.