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“Stay out of my hair!”

The Hechinger Report

Black Student Union students say the school tells them durags perpetuate gang culture, but they say the durag ban unfairly continues the criminalization of black men. It’s past time the DOE issued guidance, telling schools to leave black students’ hair alone. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Late last year, U.S.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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COLUMN: Endangered public schools need federal leadership more than ever

The Hechinger Report

The lack of a promised federal aid package, combined with teacher shortages, is making it difficult for cash-strapped systems that rely for funding on bereft state and local governments to help students catch up, either in person or virtually. I would argue that it is the ideal time to be talking about this more widely.”.