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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Now, with a new book coming out in May, provocatively titled “MATH- ish ,” Boaler is fighting back. She had written a book, “What’s Math Got to Do with It?: Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice. But despite all her fans, she has sparked controversy at nearly every stage of her career.

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OPINION: When books are banned, ‘education is impoverished, and everyone loses’

The Hechinger Report

A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. Among the banned books were children’s stories about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., Related: Using critical race theory to understand the backlash against it.

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COLUMN: Should schools teach climate activism?

The Hechinger Report

Social justice is a core value of Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, and the school also belongs to a special assessment cons ortium , giving it more freedom in what is taught than a typical New York City public high school. She’s taught about social movements for two decades at American University in Washington, D.C.,

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

An avowed Marxist, deBoer argues unabashedly that he has set out “to demolish the entire meritocratic system and give [underprivileged] kids equal economic circumstances to begin with,” as a Wall Street Journal review of his book summarized. Related: What if public schools never reopen? Hirsch, Jr. The results have not rewarded our faith.

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OPINION: Can Zoom classes keep students excited and engaged? We have found some ways

The Hechinger Report

However, we’re convinced that the success of this class is owed to our ability to build a community based on nurturing shared interests in politics and social justice – along with deep reservoirs of trust nurtured during two months of pre-pandemic, in-person classes.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

million book images from the Internet Archive. . We’d have a variety of Social Studies simulations and games available to us. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities. Use the book as an analytic framework and some of its lessons as models for their own work.