education

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/5/2020
  

  The Undemocratic History of School ‘Pandemic Pods’

  by Mark Boonshoft

  The Coronavirus pandemic threatens to entrench the undemocratic practice of exclusive education for children of the rich. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  7/30/2020
  

  How Trump Politicized Schools Reopening, Regardless of Safety

  by Diane Ravitch

  Amid this uncertainty and anxiety, President Trump has decided that the reopening of schools is essential to his prospects for reelection.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  7/27/2020
  

  Disinvestment in Black and Latino Chicago Neighborhoods is Rooted in Policy. Here’s how these Communities Continue to be Negatively Impacted.

  “When they were protesting in 1963, it was a desegregation protest but the things that people were chanting were like, ‘What do we want? Books! When do we want them? Now!’” said historian Elizabeth Todd-Breland.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/23/2020
  

  This One Letter In A Textbook Could Change How Millions Of Kids Learn About Race

  Albert Broussard is a history professor and a textbook writer for McGraw Hill. Broussard plans to capitalize the b in Black in the most recent revision of a middle and high school history textbook.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/15/2020
  

  The Return of Jane Elliott

  “When am I going to quit? When racists quit,” Jane Elliott said. “Do I have a job for a lifetime? I’m afraid so.”

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• 7/19/2020
  

  "No Longer Just Lincoln and a Slave": Consider Mary McLeod Bethune's Lincoln Park Statue

  by Jenny Woodley

  Thinking of the Mary McLeod Bethune memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park in tandem with the controversial Emancipation memorial suggests ways in which commemorative spaces can operate as places of dialogue. 

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• SOURCE: The Morning Call
  7/9/2020
  

  Black Lives Matter Movement Prods Bethlehem and Other Districts to Review How History is Taught

  Last weekend, protestors in Allentown, PA demanded that the school district mandate a Black history curriculum.

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  7/7/2020
  

  Historical Association Schools Teachers on White House History

  Over 200 teachers in the DC area are learning about White House history this week, through a five-day online program presented by the White House Historical Association.

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• SOURCE: Market Watch
  7/8/2020
  

  ‘If I tell people about what happened, I honor my ancestors.’ How the Pandemic is Helping a Slavery Historian Develop a K-12 Lesson Plan on African-American History

  Non-academic historians step in to preserve stories that would otherwise be lost.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/4/2020
  

  A Teacher Held a Famous Racism Exercise in 1968. She’s Still at It.

  The day after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Jane Elliott carried out the “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” exercise in her classroom. Now, people are returning to her work.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/7/2020
  

  Just How Little U.S. Students Learn About African American History — And Five Steps to Start to Change That

  Leslie T. Fenwick and Chike Akua discuss anti-racist curriculums and provide five ways that K-12 and higher education administrators, teachers and students can begin to educate themselves on this subject.

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• SOURCE: Florida Phoenix
  7/1/2020
  

  A Push to Make Black History Classes a College Graduation Requirement in FL is Mostly Talk but no Action

  Right now, Florida law requires African American history to be taught at K-12 public schools, though some schools may not be teaching it.

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• SOURCE: Nonprofit Quarterly
  6/1/2020
  

  Why Teachers, Not Reformers, Should “Reimagine Education”

  Education historian Diane Ravitch agrees with public school teachers who oppose the outsize influence of wealthy foundations in determining how public schools operate.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Political Review
  5/29/2020
  

  Remaking Ethnic Studies

  Recognizing a rift between the words written on a chalkboard and the society that lies outside the classroom door, students are increasingly pushing for a course of study that allows them to learn about traditionally underrepresented figures and reckon with concepts of oppression and justice.

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• SOURCE: Common Dreams
  5/26/2020
  

  Demanding End to 'Failed Billionaire-Backed' Policies, 200+ Teachers and Activists Urge Biden to Go Bold on Public Education

  Their demands push Biden toward a progressive education platform, breaking from the status quo in Washington.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/21/2020
  

  Rhody McCoy, Key Figure in New York’s School Wars, Dies at 97

  McCoy headed the Brooklyn district where teacher transfers in 1968 sparked a bitter, racially-charged dispute over union seniority and community control.

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• SOURCE: Southern Poverty Law Center
  5/16/2020
  

  66 years after Brown v. Board, Schools Across the South are Still Separate and Unequal

  The SPLC contends that school funding programs, including vouchers and charter schools, help to preserve and extend racial segregation in the South. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/11/2020
  

  How We Got to Sesame Street

  by Jill Lepore

  The beloved children's program grew from the need to use the overabundance of televisions to fix the dearth of preschools in 1960s America. Jill Lepore assesses how the show has changed along with society.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/27/2020
  

  Detroit Students Have a Constitutional Right to Literacy, Court Rules

  A major ruling in a lawsuit involving the Detroit public schools comes at a time when school shutdowns are expected to affect poor children most adversely.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/26/2020
  

  How Past Crises Changed America’s Public Schools — ‘And so too Will COVID-19’

  by Ann Marie Ryan and Charles Tocci

  While this certainly feels unprecedented, the history of American public schooling shows us it's not.