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APSA Oral History Project: Contributions by Scholars of Color Interview Series

Political Science Now

As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California.

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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

Sapiens

Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. While Logan’s work revealed the plants Banda residents ate, other research reconstructed the region’s broader environmental history.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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PROOF POINTS: Combining remote and in-person learning led to chaos, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Student failures during the 2020-21 school year prompted three districts in the study to abandon the dual approach and split into separate in-person only and remote only classes. . When the pandemic first hit in March 2020, Bartlett wanted to document the lives of teachers. It’s completely absurd.”. teaching work force.

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Creating a curriculum with Black girls in mind 

The Hechinger Report

Her classes involved lessons on Black history and women’s history, as well as wide-ranging conversations about was happening in the world. Many of Kaler-Jones’ students — most of them Black — weren’t taught about important Black figures or positive history lessons from a non-white perspective in school.

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Plunging NAEP scores make clear the long and difficult road ahead to pandemic recovery

The Hechinger Report

Related: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling. Those who have been fighting to reopen schools since Fall 2020 knew that school was essential, that children faced the lowest risk of severe illness, and that children faced the most severe consequences of the prolonged shutdown.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

Related: ‘It’s so hard and so challenging’: An oral history of year three of the pandemic. Philadelphia’s rates of gun violence have spiked in recent years: There were 486 fatal shootings in the city in 2021, 23 percent higher than 2020 and a 95 percent rise compared to 2016.). It’s a weird feeling,” he added.