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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.

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How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

Cult of Pedagogy

The examples below show how they pull this off, teaching children to build caring and respectful learning communities in which participants take each other’s ideas seriously. Join our mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration that will make your teaching more effective and fun. An excellent discussion ensued.

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

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Along with all that attention, though, came plenty of criticism. And early in his career, he was a classroom teacher in a school as well, as part of one of the first cohorts of teachers in Teach for America. Those human needs include pastoral needs, intellectual development, socialization, those sorts of things.

Culture 168