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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Doing Social Studies

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. I was able to locate Topeka’s “shut down” order through the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America.

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More universities and colleges reach out to boost their home communities

The Hechinger Report

Many institutions provide legal and medical clinics and intervene to improve their local public schools. Rutgers University hosts a branch of the county public library. Harris reached out, and today Widener runs a charter school for local children, offers free health and physical therapy clinics and is helping restore a museum. “I

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Last week was tough, teachers say. But it wasn’t the first difficult ‘day after’ they’ve faced

The Hechinger Report

She wanted every middle schooler at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Before the coronavirus shutdown, middle school Principal Laina Cox works with students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Construction had pushed back the new school year at her Vermont high school.