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Supreme Court ruling brings an altered legal landscape for school choice

The Hechinger Report

Jessica Levin, director of the advocacy campaign Public Funds Public Schools, said that the ruling currently applies only to Maine and neighboring Vermont and New Hampshire, where similar tuition programs already exist. Jessica Levin, director of the advocacy campaign Public Funds Public Schools. I think the area of law is in flux.

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

The Hechinger Report

Children who shouldn’t be paddled are paddled anyway, usually when parent letters get lost, or because school officials don’t check their lists before doling out corporal punishment, a problem documented both inside and outside Covington County. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error.

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4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

Studies Weekly

Du Bois’ advocacy extended across the world through many Pan-African conferences and an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the suffering of Black Americans, according to the NAACP. He encouraged his readers to be proud of who they were and to see “Beauty in Black.”

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

ED Surge

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

The training not only gave teachers the opportunity to learn more about the Civil Rights Movement, but also taught them how to pull documents from the archives to enhance and enrich their classroom materials. RELATED: The districts that use outdated textbooks to teach about the Civil Rights Movement.

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Some religious colleges forgo federal funding, staying free of civil rights rules

The Hechinger Report

Thirty-eight religiously affiliated institutions have received exemptions from Title IX, according to a list released by the Education Department under pressure from Democrats in Congress after the gay rights organization the Human Rights Campaign used public-records laws to help expose the practice.

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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

” While this piece was written primarily for adult education, an adaptation for middle and high school teachers is included at the end of the document. history scope and sequence, including World Wars I and II, the Civil Rights Movement, and the First Amendment. foreign policy on children in the region. ”; and more.