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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In late September, my sophomores were packing up for the day when I noticed a group of boys, heads down, all focusing on what looked to be magazines open on their desks. Our students have rich, cultural lives and dynamic insight into their passions. They lifted each page carefully, with a mix of reverence and deep concentration.

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Cultures Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching 128

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MARCH 6, 2024

What Happens When Students Don’t Receive a Diploma Culturally, graduation is a right of passage and a source of immense pride. Another recent graduate, a talented, multidisciplinary artist, was recently featured in one of the most prominent art spaces in the city — and is currently publishing his first magazine.

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High School Tradition Cultures Teaching 133

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MAY 23, 2022

A Devoted Career Kang has devoted her career to early childhood education—an early love that she says was forged during her experience growing up as the oldest child of Korean immigrants. She referenced a TIME magazine cover story from February 1997, called “How a Child’s Brain Develops.” But did it?

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K-12 Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 104

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The school’s founder, Erika Donalds, hopes this cutting-edge technology can help spread an educational approach that is decidedly old-fashioned. She’s a champion of a model of education that favors students reading classical texts and otherwise focusing on the traditional canons of arts, literature and culture.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

That movie, which everyone in Silicon Valley and in the culture at large was talking about, was “The Social Network,” depicting the contentious creation of Facebook. The editor of Slate magazine at the time, Jacob Weisberg, called it a “nasty idea.”

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MAY 20, 2022

Evidence abounds that children and teens are more successful when they have warm, caring relationships with educators and peers; instruction in building important life skills; and a sense of belonging in school. In Time magazine, a teacher sensibly characterized SEL as “the base layer of education.”

Humanities 135

Humanities Economics Research Cultures 135

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Learning and Teaching About Black Death When I was nine years old, I learned about the murder of Emmett Till after reading his story in one of my Aunt Helen’s “Jet” magazines. They all pushed for a more expansive understanding of Black humanity by embracing their unique identities and expressing their love for Black culture.

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History Teaching K-12 Artifacts 109