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How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

The Hechinger Report

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. In July, Ajith and three of her friends testified before the Texas State Board of Education, demanding changes to the way students are taught.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Without a doubt we would be living on Pinterest since it has dozens of pinboards – and tens of thousands of pins – related to history , including awesome resource sets from the Stanford History Education Group. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers.