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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

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They offer an invitation to analyze how mathematics can be applied to promote civic engagement, advocacy, policy change and increased access to resources.

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Teaching the Truth about George Floyd — and Our History

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That is why we need organizations that are willing to help educators teach difficult subjects, including a fuller accounting of history, in a way that remains above the partisan fray. Students are forming clubs, organizing sit-ins and walk-outs, and engaging in advocacy about all sorts of issues.

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Politics, Pressure and Poor Sources: History Teachers Have It Tough These Days

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Though AHA researchers stress they found no indoctrination, politicization or deliberate classroom malpractice, the heavy-handed political rhetoric from the White House harms teachers, says Emma Humphries, a former history teacher and now chief education officer at the civics advocacy group iCivics.

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