ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

One fear expressed was about how the mostly Black and Latino students at 28 schools would fare under a plan created by new Superintendent Mike Miles that would require school libraries to cease, in essence, functioning as libraries. Demonstrators gather in August 2023 in protest of Houston ISD's plan to close libraries in schools.

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Library Heritage High School Elementary School 145

Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. West Coast Immigration at Angel Island Immigration Station in Angel Island, CA.

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Museum Historic Sites Heritage American History 59

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

My passion for DEI did not change once I transitioned from the classroom to school leadership. In one case, a teacher wished to increase the diversity of her classroom library. Who gets to decide what books go into the library? As a result of this audit, there are more diverse texts included in each classroom library.

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Library Heritage K-12 Cultures 122

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006. It’s a traditionally oral language, and speakers frown on any written form.

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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 138

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

Jesse Hagopian , Rethinking Schools editor, co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives, and Zinn Education Project leadership team member Astoundingly, today, almost half of all children in the public schools are in a jurisdiction that has passed a law or policy that bans honest education , about race, about gender, about sexuality.

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Teaching Social Justice Library Heritage 86

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 15, 2024

The Teach Truth pop-up with banned books will remain on display in the library/museum. Spoken Word, and the Francis Gregory Neighborhood Library hosted an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display, book swap, discussion, and reading by author Carolivia Herron of her banned book, Nappy Hair on June 8. There were over 100 participants.

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Teaching Library Museum Social Justice 87