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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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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. Perhaps schools are simply more effective at advancing private purposes and we’re assigning them a role that they are ill-suited to play. The results have not rewarded our faith. Maybe they never will.

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What My Girls Camp Reveals About the Promise of Women in STEM and the Dangers of Online Hate

ED Surge

CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. i in the last two years. This year, I spent most of my time in a public-facing role representing Hawai?

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

Most of the remaining white families send their children to a private school that opened more than 50 years ago to help white children avoid racial integration. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school.

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Support Betsy DeVos, shoot yourself in the foot

The Hechinger Report

Chief among her causes is school vouchers, government-funded coupons intended as an escape hatch to release students from failing public schools zoned by residence to attend a better private school of their choice. This means that taxpayers are footing the bill for parents in private and religious schools.

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

The Hechinger Report

But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. schools becomes more pronounced in many places, and as hate crimes against minorities increase in schools and communities and the U.S.

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Vote for America

Dangerously Irrelevant

Denial of ongoing racial injustice and attacks on social justice-oriented remedies and protections. A Department of Education that favors the 10 percent of students in private schools over the 90 percent in public schools. White supremacy, racism, bigotry, and hate toward our family members and neighbors of color.