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OPINION: You can’t teach psychology without covering gender and sexuality, and you can’t teach history without covering racism

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We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Florida’s state board of education then accused the College Board of “playing games with Florida students.” It stood firm in defense of the unit.

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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten 

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

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Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem.

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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R. Teaching students to use civil speech is part of the public schools’ overall mission to teach responsible citizenship.

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OPINION: Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them

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Horace Tate, for example, featured in Vanessa Siddle Walker’s book, “The Lost Education of Horace Tate, ” was a hero who, beginning in the 1940s, aggressively recruited undergraduate students from historically Black colleges and universities to teach in rural Georgia.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

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Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Teaching is inherently activist.

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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

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history has resulted in persistent unequal access to opportunity. Some leaders have responded by endorsing policies that attempt to reduce the impacts of these “implicit” biases. But the benefits of hiring more Black educators and administrators extend well beyond directly reducing pro-white/anti-Black biases in schools.

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