education

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  9/17/2020
  

  Education Department Opens Investigation into Princeton University after President Deems Racism 'Embedded' in the School

  The Department of Education's justification appears to boil down to the idea that acknowledging institutional racial inequality embedded over centuries is the functional equivalent of discrimination. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  9/14/2020
  

  Where Kamala Harris’ Political Imagination Was Formed

  by Tessa Rissacher and Scott Saul

  A Black cultural center in Berkeley introduced Kamala Harris to activism and the connections between culture and politics. 

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• 9/8/2020
  

  Trump Attacks Racial Sensitivity Training, 1619 Project

  Trump apparently wants to make acknowledging the existence of racism a campaign issue. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/8/2020
  

  Joe Biden Can Inspire Young People — If He Listens to Them

  by Erica Moretti

  Despite apparent progress, children and young adults remain politicized but unable to be political. Mostly this is because politics remains an old person’s game, seldom open to direct representation of young people and adolescents even in issues that directly concern them.

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• SOURCE: Politics and Prose Bookstore
  8/31/2020
  

  Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz – Blaming Teachers: Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History 6:00 PM Monday, August 31

  Education historian Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz discusses the ways that public policy undermines teachers' authority and blames them for systemic problems with education, sponsored by Politics and Prose bookstores. Live at 6:00 PM Monday, August 31. 

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• SOURCE: School Diversity Notebook
  8/19/2020
  

  “Safety and Security” in Boston Schools: A History of Police and Repression

  by Matt Kautz

  Opponents of school desegregation in Boston used the police to frame Black community leaders and student protesters as criminals and disrupt community-led efforts protests.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  8/27/2020
  

  Getting Creative With Course Assessments

  When navigating online education, faculty should stray away from traditional exams and opt for innovative assignments that will engage students rather than stress them out.

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• SOURCE: Roanoke (VA) Times
  8/18/2020
  

  UMW, City of Fredericksburg Partner in Effort to More Accurately Tell the Local Civil Rights Story

  Christine Henry, an assistant professor of historic preservation at UMW, will contribute to this project with her fall semester upper level seminar “Diversity in Historic Preservation.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/17/2020
  

  High School Students Are Demanding Schools Teach More Black History, Include More Black Authors

  “The education system is where people form values other than what their parents have,” 18 year old Vanessa Amoah of Omaha said. “George Floyd, Philando Castile — none of it would have happened if this country worked on proactively teaching anti-racist values."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/13/2020
  

  ’Back To School’ Amid a Pandemic and Uprisings Gives Teachers a Unique Opportunity

  by Kabria Baumgartner

  The history of Black women educators shows a path for teachers to directly engage the social conflicts and inequalities that affect their students lives. 

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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.