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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. Maybe they never will.

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More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

The Hechinger Report

Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. He said staff members had set up food drives in school parking lots as the pandemic hit. “Our

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Ethics in the Classroom

Digital Promise

Should middle school teachers let a failing eighth-grade student graduate, knowing that if she’s held back, she’ll likely drop out? Should a private school principal condone inflated grades? As a response to Ada’s dilemma, the writer imagines appropriate alternative schooling that will allow Ada to heal and thrive.

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

The Hechinger Report

Twelve miles south of Western Middle, at Stuart Academy, another middle school in Louisville, eighth grade math teacher Louis Redd was beginning to grasp how much his students were struggling. She joined a program called “ Justice Now ” dedicated to empowering students to organize projects around social justice issues important to them.

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

The Hechinger Report

From Marcus Garvey to Malcolm X, the notion that separate and equal is not only possible, but in some cases preferable, has been a rallying point for those who believe that black educators should be the ones designing and leading schools for black children. Related: Early evidence of a ‘Trump effect’ on bullying in schools.

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Vote for America

Dangerously Irrelevant

On whether or not we’re going to restore fundamental human decency to our nation. Denial of ongoing racial injustice and attacks on social justice-oriented remedies and protections. Xenophobia, nationalism, and the denial of the humanity of others – particularly Black and Brown people – around the globe.