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Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Spring Mi, UC Berkeley

Political Science Now

She received her Bachelor of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies and Middle East Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018 with a high academic distinction, and received her Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Chicago in 2021, where she received the Social Sciences Scholarship of full tuition.

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Mental health: Is that a job for schools?

The Hechinger Report

surgeon general issued an advisory in December 2021 warning of a youth mental health crisis. The association reports the national average was 1:415 in the 2020-21 school year. The flurry of recent activity is being driven by experts – and students themselves. The National Association of School Psychologists was formed in 1969.

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Resources for Teacher and Instructional Coaches – March 2021

Edthena

It’s an effort that calls on educators to “teach a more accurate history that commonly goes untold: the role of grassroots activists and women, nuanced portraits of leaders like Parks and King, and racial and social justice battles that link the past to contemporary issues of inequality,” writes Melinda D. Anderson, a journalist.

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COLUMN: Are book bans stopping a Marxist “revolution” or whitewashing the past?

The Hechinger Report

“We need to be very careful about what kind of materials are being provided to your children,” Jennifer McWilliams of Purple for Parents says in the video , while also warning of “psychological manipulation of your children to get them to adapt critical race theory in order to dismantle our systems … This is a revolution.

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Teach Truth, Teach Banned Books

Zinn Education Project

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.” For displays and/or readings of banned books, Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended titles.

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Book Bans Threaten Public Education

Zinn Education Project

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.” For displays and/or readings of banned books, Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended titles.