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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” These included Epperson v.

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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.” I was one of the youngest students in the class, and we learned everything about human behavior.

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

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Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies By November, when a slate of Republican school board candidates who’d campaigned against DEI was elected , the changes started to come hard and fast. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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Trump plan would base student loans on employability

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Related: In era of high costs, humanities come under attack. If you ask the public what’s most important in higher education, they say two things: ‘What does it cost?’ But while a history major might have trouble finding a job right out of school, these advocates say, his or her degree may end up paying off years later.

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If black lives matter, so do historically black colleges and universities

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People who know American history, specifically black history, don’t ask if we need HBCUs. Grand Valley State University professor in 2013 in the academic e-journal Education Policy. Higher Education. The business models may have to change, but they will never catch up to a rigged funding system.

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

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Educating Early Read comprehensive coverage of young learners with Hechinger’s biweekly Early Childhood newsletter. Ariel Gilreath School choice Expanding school choice through private-school vouchers has been a key part of Trump’s education policy, but he had little success in getting his most ambitious efforts passed by Congress.

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