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COLUMN: Should schools teach climate activism?

The Hechinger Report

Social justice is a core value of Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, and the school also belongs to a special assessment cons ortium , giving it more freedom in what is taught than a typical New York City public high school. Sanes gets a lot of support for this approach from his administration.

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Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids — and ignites controversy

The Hechinger Report

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. Teachers, for their part, tend to side with the liberals.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

These schools often frame their efforts in social justice terms. For example, Launch’s manual states that “encouraging high aspirations in all our students” is meant to “reverse the social engineering of apartheid.”

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A Tribute to Lois Cronholm: The love of Science and that of another!

Life and Landscapes

the fierce intellectual fireball, microbiologist, student of law, seeker of social justice, and woman of more “firsts” than can be imagined, and that is saying a lot of a woman in those times. Lois continues her longtime fight for social justice, and remains active in her pursuit of civil rights and equality. She was (is!)

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Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

The Hechinger Report

Mothers Gwyn Hainsworth, far left, Vernee Fletcher, Jamie Zimmerman, Katy Strange and Leticia Bazemore pose at Jefferson Park in Seattle during a June 2019 soccer scrimmage. Parents from the Green Lake and Rising Star elementary schools in Seattle meet for a spaghetti dinner in late 2019. It was never about the money,” she said. “We

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Unlike at Olmsted, the highest-scoring elementary school in the city, students at Eve scored around the dismal city average in math and English in 2019, when fewer than a quarter of students passed state tests. Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

ED Surge

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them. A few days later, I was asked to cover for a colleague who needed to step away from the classroom.

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