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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. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. William Hite , superintendent of Philadelphia’s public schools. Young people are glad to be back in school. Steven Weber, associate superintendent for teaching and learning for the Fayetteville Public Schools.

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

Here are some voices from our third round of interviews, in which we asked people involved with their local public schools for their reflections on how the past year had shaped them, and their predictions for the next school year, among other topics. school district is investing heavily in early literacy.

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STUDENT VOICES: The education system encourages students to be dead inside

The Hechinger Report

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. When I was in elementary school and in middle school, I always knew that I wanted to be a composer.

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STUDENT VOICES: Teachers put you in situations to make you stronger

The Hechinger Report

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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STUDENT VOICES: If I weren’t here I’d probably be dead

The Hechinger Report

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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STUDENT VOICES: “Challenging” views are considered insubordination

The Hechinger Report

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.