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OPINION: You can’t teach psychology without covering gender and sexuality, and you can’t teach history without covering racism

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Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Florida’s state board of education then accused the College Board of “playing games with Florida students.” My high school, like so many public schools today, offered very few AP classes. It stood firm in defense of the unit.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come.

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Multiage classrooms put child development at the center

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Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school. Photo: Stuart Miller.

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Consumers get more information about a purchase they once made on trust: college

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You wanna buy a college education? People with college degrees earn about $1 million more over their lifetimes than those with only high school diplomas, and are far more likely to have jobs they enjoy. Department of Education reports, or 13 times as many as visited a previous federal website without postgraduate incomes listed.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

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One day this spring, Victoria Trice’s high school students in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, peered through virtual reality headsets as part of a lesson on Afrofuturism. LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School.

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States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

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The anti-CRT efforts to restrict how race is taught have clashed with initiatives in several states, including South Dakota, Oklahoma and New Mexico, to teach Native American history — which has often been left out of instruction — more accurately and fully. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

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CRT debate repeats past battles about state history textbooks

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The first state history textbooks defended segregation. And at the end of the 20th century, groups like the Eagle Forum left a growing imprint on education policy in the state. “It It is a continuation or even a recreation of the 90s,” said Wayne Flynt, a retired Alabama history professor.

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