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OPINION: America should learn from Europe and adopt tougher regulations on artificial intelligence

The Hechinger Report

And nowhere is this conversation more relevant than in K-12 education, where AI holds the promise of revolutionizing how teachers teach and students learn. When it comes to AI, we can’t afford the same wait-and-see approach many governments took to regulating social media. Legislators must begin regulating AI now.

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“Stay out of my hair!”

The Hechinger Report

The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Related: Denver teachers are next to take to the picket line.

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TEACHER VOICE: What was troubling enough as 20th century history is happening in the present time

The Hechinger Report

Black representatives were elected to state and federal government, public schools were made available (for all children), and many (though tragically only a fraction of) formerly enslaved families were reunited. The era following the Civil War, Reconstruction , gets short shrift in high school and is rarely mentioned at all in elementary.

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How to keep dual-language programs from being gentrified by English speaking families

The Hechinger Report

12, where students learn in both English and Spanish, the process can be both bureaucratic and baffling. In 2011, one mother filed a complaint with the Cambridge Human Rights Commission, alleging that Amigos no longer served the Hispanic community. 12 well enough to enroll her younger child there, too.

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Teach About Toxins and Organizing for Environmental Justice

Zinn Education Project

Learn More Fight for Life in Cancer Alley New Human Rights Watch Report Human Rights Watch released a devastating new report called, “We’re Dying Here”: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone. Download the lesson for free. The No War, No Warming poster is from Visualizing Palestine.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

ED Surge

When Texas’ House Bill (HB) 25 went into effect earlier this year, banning transgender students from participating in K-12 sports, I invited teachers at my middle school to stop by my classroom to help with a project to reaffirm our school’s support for trans students. But I want them to live.

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Going to school when your family is in hiding from ICE

The Hechinger Report

“I can ease my mind, strategize, think things through,” she said, sitting in a meeting room at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, a 120-year-old gothic-style church in Philadelphia where her mother, father and younger brother, Timothy, 12, have lived since August. A majority of the cases involve a parent — whether in the U.S.

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