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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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The Case of Hostile Terrain ’94 at the University of Oregon 

Anthropology News

We viewed the opportunity to bring HT94 to a campus museum as a broader opportunity to bring together a campus coalition interested in im/migration studies and border studies, bridging across traditional university silos by uniting staff, faculty, students from across campus around a common objective.

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Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids

Cult of Pedagogy

My guest is Dave Edwards, an educator who works to teach these principles through his brand-new book, Gender-Inclusive Schools ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ), and his website of the of the same name. As the parent of a transgender daughter who has experienced discrimination, Dave’s mission is a personal one. What should I have said?

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‘Black At’ Instagram accounts put campus racism on display

The Hechinger Report

The Cornell Students 4 Black Lives account takes a slightly different approach and operates as a coalition of student and alumni organizations focused on raising money for social justice organizations, while also highlighting how systemic racism plays out in Ithaca, New York, where Cornell is located, and on Cornell’s campus.

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The Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Freire

TeachThought

Its enduring significance stems from its profound critique of traditional teaching and learning methods. Freire’s work critiques traditional pedagogical practices and offers a compelling vision for a more just and participatory education system. I apprehend it as being this here and now.

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Why Colleges Should Pay Attention to Strikes by Their Most Precarious Teachers

ED Surge

Adjunct demands were not often treated with the same urgency by traditional academic organizations, such as the American Association of University Professors, National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, who mostly represented tenured and tenure-track faculty.

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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

It seems that, following on such a rich tradition, writing multimodally is a tangible testament to the recognition and appreciation of the diverse cultures and perspectives that make up the global community while at the same time staying true to the fieldwork condition. Basic Books. Smith (eds.), Handbook of Visual Communication (pp.