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

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Ignoring the deep history between civil rights organizations and organized labor, reformers have charged the NAACP with working alongside unions as if corporate America has done black folk many favors. “If If we’ve learned anything from the history of black education, it is that dual systems don’t work.”.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

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This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. Education policy over the last half century has mostly been predicated on the assumption that schooling is a singular mechanism for reducing poverty and advancing equity at scale. Related: What if public schools never reopen? Maybe they never will.

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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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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue. One big surprise at Shasta came as the college worked with Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a national nonprofit group that seeks to improve higher education access and completion. Reilly’s first day is Aug.

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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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In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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