education

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  11/13/19
  

  How we fail our Chinese students

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  If Chinese students spend several years in the United States and decide they don’t like democracy, we must not be making a strong enough case for it.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/8/19
  

  The Trouble With ‘Ole Miss’

  by Marc Parry

  The U. of Mississippi has distanced itself from much of its Confederate past. Will it ever do the same with its popular nickname?

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/9/19
  

  Nebraska Just Approved More Inclusive Social Studies Guidelines. They're a Window Into the Changing Way Kids Are Learning U.S. History

  Steps taken in Nebraska are a window into the way that conversation is changing, amid increased public scrutiny of what American students are learning about history.

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• SOURCE: EdSurge
  11/4/19
  

  The Problem With How We Teach History

  by Rachel Burstein

  Students are still often building up to what they have been told is true, rather than finding truth on their own.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
  10/31/19
  

  High School AP Government Class Helps Families of Civil Rights Murder Victims After Lobbying Congress

  by Ethan Ehrenhaft

  An AP Government Class Helps Families of Civil Rights Murder Victims

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• SOURCE: BU Today
  10/15/19
  

  Historian Andrew David Teaching Impeachment during an Impeachment Inquiry

  Andrew David pivots his lecture to teach about American presidential history as it unfolds.

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• SOURCE: The Orange County Register
  9/19/19
  

  Eric Gonzaba Uses T-shirts, address books to explore LGBTQ history

  by Susan Gill Vardon

  Dr. Gonzaba is excited about finding ways to involve his students in a project he has been working on since 2014 — Wearing Gay History, an award-winning digital mapping project that explores the global history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through T-shirts.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/12/19
  

  What White Kids Learn About Race in School

  by Eric Loomis

  Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. schools remain largely segregated. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/19/19
  

  New Documents Illuminate The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

  by Asher Price

  Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.

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• SOURCE: Real Clear Investigations
  9/17/19
  

  The Ethnic Studies Movement Is Making Big Inroads in America's High Schools

  Teachers around the country are already offering ethnic studies classes, units or lessons on their own initiative, citing a growing urgency to confront racism, sexism, homophobia and other entrenched social inequalities.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/10/19
  

  9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Textbooks are not the go-to resource for learning about 9/11 in 2019.  

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/11/19
  

  Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again

  by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

  Any desegregation plans must be a shared burden. But are we willing to take it on?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/3/19
  

  How the advanced placement program is failing students

  by Annie Abrams

  A new cookie-cutter website designed by the College Board represents a perversion of the program’s original mission of fostering creative and critical thinking.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/3/19
  

  Police and punitive policies make schools less safe, especially for minority students

  by Kathryn Schumaker

  The increase in school security is directly linked to the rise of student activism that started to transform schools 50 years ago.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/26/19
  

  How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery

  by Cynthia Greenlee

  Textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. And they still have a long way to go.

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• SOURCE: 13 News
  8/24/19
  

  Virginia Gov. Northam establishes Commission on African American history education

  Governor Northam signed an executive order establishing the Commission on African American History Education on Saturday, August 24.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/25/19
  

  George Washington owned slaves and ordered Indians killed. Will a mural of that history be hidden?

  by Gillian Brockell

  This is the story of the layers of history that will continue to exist underneath, whether the murals are covered by curtains, panels or paint.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/12/19
  

  Illinois Governor Signs Bill Mandating Public Schools Teach LGBTQ History

  The measure is being praised as a “life-saving law” that has placed the state “on the right side of history.”  

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/15/19
  

  Push for Ethnic Studies in Schools Faces a Dilemma: Whose Stories to Tell

  California’s newly proposed model ethnic studies curriculum has led to bitter debate in recent weeks.

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• SOURCE: HistPhil
  July 30, 2019
  

  More Lore Than Law: The Dartmouth College Case And The Myth Of The Purely Private College

  by John R. Thelin

  The blurred line between public and private education.