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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. My desire to know exploded.

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Reckoning with Mississippi’s ‘segregation academies’

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: You won’t see separate drinking fountains when you visit the Mississippi Delta town of Indianola. But black and white students there are still learning in classrooms that often look like Brown vs. Most of the town’s black children are enrolled in public schools. Choose as many as you like.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

Bowie, 24, dropped out of Georgia State after financial problems derailed him from his dream of becoming a history teacher. In grade school, Bowie and his younger brother were their mother’s pride and joy. Always at the top of their class, they were also fierce leaders of the debate team, and beat even the top local private schools.

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

The Hechinger Report

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. It is pernicious, it is cruel, and it must change,” he writes.

Education 128
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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

The family, who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, has chosen a hybrid home school model – half a day of distance learning with the local school and half a day of activities and lessons arranged at home. “I She represents a growing number of Muslim families who are forgoing the public school system.

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OPINION: Post-affirmative action, let’s look past our obsession with the Ivy Leagues and other elite schools

The Hechinger Report

We should instead be asking this: Why are we so laser-focused on the graduates of a tiny number of schools, presuming they are the rightful inhabitants of leadership posts in business and government? Many students at more accessible institutions can run intellectual circles around their peers at “top schools.”

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OPINION: Many rural schools have been ‘minimally adequate’ for too long

The Hechinger Report

I had not learned of this fascinating portion of our state’s history until after graduating from the University of South Carolina. White parents still prefer Clarendon Hall, one of many rural private schools in the South opened in the desegregation era of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Later, I became a professional writer.

History 109