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Why I Left the Classroom to Build a School Black Children Deserve

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In those environments, creativity was often seen as defiance, and culturally relevant teaching was just as perilous. Where Black history wasn’t a side note but a central narrative. My original vision was simply to help Black students and their families better navigate the public education system. My students were growing.

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How ZIP Codes Determine a Child’s Future — and What We Can Do to Fight Back

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They’re policies, they’re history and they’re hurting kids. Gentrification adds a new layer: the displacement of longtime residents and the erasure of culture. But neighborhood school policies , which tie school enrollment to residential addresses, can also reinforce racial and class-based segregation. So what can we do?

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Remote Learning Strategies: Beyond the Pandemic

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Have you seen examples of that working, and if so, what are some of the best practices to kind of establish the culture that all Ed tech leaders know is important in person? Take the US history course you develop it. Dei has suddenly become a dirty word somehow, but I always felt in our conversations before there was a good thing.

Learning 130
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AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison

Cal Matters

Alba, 20, attends College of the Canyons, a large community college north of Los Angeles, where he is studying business and history. And while he hasn’t asked ChatGPT to write any papers for him, he has turned to the technology when a blank page and a blinking cursor seemed overwhelming. He has asked for an outline.

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Large Public Libraries Give Young Adults Across U.S. Access to Banned Books

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But the company canceled the feature after librarians pointed out how it could be abused by releasing their library checkout history and placing borrowing restrictions on accounts — in violation of both the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights and student privacy rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

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As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

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Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

History 160