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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

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She presented her “witness testimony” as a Chinese war victim, accusing her classmate, who played Genghis Khan , of crimes against humanity. For Zeng, it was clear that the problems with the way world history was taught at her school bled through into the teaching of U.S. The students were asked to role-play during class.

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When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail

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Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. School discipline, she said, has been handed to police, who make “welfare checks” on students who miss online classes.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. If we don’t make the most of this chance,” he said, “we’re not going to get another one.” “It Then there was the curriculum.