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TEACHER VOICE: ‘Which police officer will see me not as an educator or a scientist, but as a suspect?’

The Hechinger Report

If human prejudice runs that deeply in Americans and those trusted to protect and serve us, we still have a lot of work to do. These men, and many others, inspired me to be proud of my multiracial heritage. It meant helping my students craft elegant poetry infused with messages of social justice as their spoken word poetry coach.

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Curating a More Inclusive Library

Cult of Pedagogy

Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools. He has clinical depression.

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Integrating Arab Narratives Across the Curriculum

Cult of Pedagogy

Fatma Elsamra Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi Reem Fakhry Dr. Sawsan Jaber The Big Picture “I think oftentimes people think cultural responsiveness sits more in a humanities classroom,” Jaber says. “And the reality is that the Arab heritage and the Arab culture is something that is across content areas.

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Treasuring Indonesian Culture; From Local Practice to State Political Ritual

Anthropology News

In contrast, numerous treasuring practices organized and maintained by local communities, such as the Merti Dusun ritual (hamlet cleansing) in Javanese society, effectively preserve cultural heritage and enhance collective capacities, ensuring the continued preservation and vitality of these cultural treasures.

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This LA teen is suing her school district — and the USDA — to promote nondairy milk

The Hechinger Report

Research suggests that cow’s milk is unnecessary for, and even potentially detrimental to, healthy human development, and critics note that no other mammal drinks milk after a brief period at the beginning of life. To many medical groups, the school dairy requirement has become a clear anachronism. In the U.S.,

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Tears, sleepless nights and small victories: How first-year teachers are weathering the crisis

The Hechinger Report

23, Amia was teaching a lesson on Hispanic Heritage Month when news broke that the panel had decided not to charge the detectives with Taylor’s death , though one former officer was charged with wanton endangerment for allegedly firing blindly into a neighboring apartment. “I On the afternoon of Sept. There’s nothing to look forward to.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

What followed were a series of ultimate insider jobs that culminated with heading the county’s Department of Health and Human Services from 1988 to 1991 and then serving as Milwaukee’s school superintendent from 1991 to 1995. I knew that to some I would be seen as ‘a sellout,’ ” Fuller writes in his memoir, “No Struggle, No Progress.”.