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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

Since then, states such as Arkansas and Texas have also opposed the true teaching of the history of Black people in this country by dropping African American history courses and eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.

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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. You’re stronger minded.

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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

ED Surge

So on the first day of my educational psychology class, I say … my job isn't to make sure that you're never uncomfortable. Kathryn Kay Coquemont: I want to compare something that happened in my formal education with what I think is happening with our current traditional-age college students' education. That's become harder to do.

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Multiage classrooms put child development at the center

The Hechinger Report

Yet multiage advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on an arbitrary birthdate range is illogical. Advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on arbitrary birthdate ranges is illogical.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

he said, noting that fields like literature, anthropology and psychology also grapple with issues of race, gender and sexuality. Marissa Bellenger, one of Cassanello’s graduate students, was warned by a visiting professor teaching a lecture course on American history for which she is a teaching assistant. “He What’s next?”

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#TeachTruth Syllabus

Zinn Education Project

The tsunami of laws and Executive Orders attacking public school curricula mobilize a range of doublespeak, from divisive concepts to race scapegoating to psychological stress; many include the admonition that teachers may not teach students that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist. for a students.

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Column: Pop quiz: What state just banned an AP African American studies course?

The Hechinger Report

“Florida is doing its best to tilt the scales and shut down important, much-needed discussions of race, slavery, stolen lands, and undeniable history that have led us to where we are as a society today,” Senator Shevrin Jones, a Florida Democrat, said in a statement. There’s nothing objectional.

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