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

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In addition, black folk need schools with hiring practices that attend to diversity, adequate pay as well as curricula and pedagogical practices that are liberatory and culturally relevant. Education reformers have built their platform and careers on the value of accountability.

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

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Michael Hansen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, is among a number of experts who say minority students may be underperforming because they don’t have role models in positions of authority — people who are helping them, and who also look like them.

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OPINION: Early data offers a sobering look at interrupted and incomplete learning, but there is hope ahead

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As young people, families and educators near the end of yet another hectic pandemic school year, new research studying the early impact of remote learning offers a sobering look at experiences and outcomes, including interrupted and incomplete learning. Young people and educators have been telling us what they need. Ngounou, Ed.L.D.,

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

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She cited the film Black Panther as one example, combining images of various African cultures with advanced technology. Victoria Trice, who teaches the pilot AP African American history course in Jefferson Public Schools, Kentucky Those kinds of discussions also require a supportive school culture and administration, she said.

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Moms For Liberty flexes its muscles — and faces pushback

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In a striking change from the first Joyful Warriors National Summit in Tampa, Florida, last July, where protesters were few, the second gathering in Philadelphia June 29 – July 2 was met with pushback from social justice advocates and parent activists opposed to the group’s right-wing policies. “It