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From Theory to Praxis: Entrepreneurship as Resistance 

Anthropology News

Thankfully, we have records of past Afro-descendant entrepreneurs through both written and oral histories. It was meant to provoke fearful submission on my part, and to maintain a previous social order that excluded Black leadership. Turning one’s gaze south, the works of historian Michael L.

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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

Also, Massachusetts public schools have been relatively slow to adopt student-centered learning, perhaps in part because traditional teaching approaches seem to work so well here—last year the state’s averages topped the National As sessment of Educational Progress test scores in reading and math. This approach is dynamic.

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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

The Philadelphia school district is among many nationwide facing a leadership change. Fourth graders got to have their traditional field day. The post ‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III appeared first on The Hechinger Report. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.