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The Fight to Preserve—and Teach—African-American History

Edsurge

It is an emotional time because it is the culmination, at least for me, of many years of trying to bring attention to this through the realm of scholarship, [and] encouraging scholars to start having conversations,” said Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a history professor and dean of the college of liberal arts at Norfolk State University in Virginia.

History 137
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How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

Cult of Pedagogy

” At an evocative point in a story (or a point of uncertainty in science or social studies), we ask open questions like: “What are you thinking?” Teacher Kathy Champeau drew the students’ attention to their enjoyment of the discussion then asked: “If Claire hadn’t invited Shauna into the conversation, what would have happened?”

Languages 111
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With an Unusual Model and ‘Forbidden Courses,’ a New University Is Taking Shape in Texas

Edsurge

Along with all that attention, though, came plenty of criticism. So if our purpose is to become, let's say, transpolitical—to exist outside of politics so that politics can be something we study … then moving in the opposite direction and creating a conservative institution would frustrate our ambitions from the very beginning.

Culture 168