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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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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.

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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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PROOF POINTS: Leading dyslexia treatment isn’t a magic bullet, studies find, while other options show promise

The Hechinger Report

Science has to be taken seriously,” said Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice at UCLA and author of Proust and the Squid , a book about how the brain learns to read. “We Science evolves.

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Making higher education more relevant and worthwhile

The Hechinger Report

Ness Book Award for contributions to the understanding and improvement of liberal education, profiles faculty members and institutions that Davidson believes are changing to better prepare students for the modern world and workforce. Students consider the implications for work, housing, poverty, social justice and more.