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TEACHER VOICE: ‘Which police officer will see me not as an educator or a scientist, but as a suspect?’

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The experiences and perspectives of Black and Latino students I taught at a Massachusetts charter school are very different from those of my Moroccan students. universities, they often experience culture shock. Credit: Collin Cherubim. Like my multiracial background, my background as an educator is diverse.

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How to find minority teachers who want to stay in the job?

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A March 2016 study by Johns Hopkins University showed that black teachers are more likely to have higher expectations for their black students; for example, white teachers were almost 40 percent less likely than their black counterparts to expect black students to finish high school.

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PROOF POINTS: A research update on social-emotional learning in schools

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Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report Social-emotional learning – aimed at fostering a wide assortment of soft skills from empathy and listening to anger management and goal-setting – has been one of the hottest trends in education over the past decade, and more recently, a new flashpoint in the culture wars.

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OPINION: Black-led schools matter

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I am a black man and strong advocate of charter schools, as a founder and full-time teacher at one in New York. Nowhere is the inequity of paternalism and structural racism more insidious than in the charter-school sector. Look no further than KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First and Success Academies.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

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To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. and ‘Why was this rally allowed?’”.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

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In South Africa, this is evident in a rapidly growing sector of “affordable” private schools that claim to level uneven terrain and interrupt poverty by fostering aspiring, upwardly mobile youth from township communities. These schools often frame their efforts in social justice terms.

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Charter backers can stop the NAACP moratorium — by meeting these four demands

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Since the NAACP at its national convention voted on a resolution that placed a moratorium on charter schools, the backlash from charter advocates has been angry, well-financed and sometimes just plain mean leading up to a vote of ratification by the national board, which occurred this past weekend. Photo:Andre Perry.