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What We’re Reading This Week: February 15, 2019

A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.

The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes 

The Atlantic 

“Women have always been influential in science but their achievements have simply not been given the recognition they deserve. That can be changed.” 

 

'Listen to Native People': What K-12 Curricula Leave Out (Q&A) 

Education Week 

“But we need to teach, especially white kids, when they see somebody who is white—it might be a peer, it might be somebody in their family—say or do something that's racist, how to challenge that behavior and how to have hard conversations.” 

 

Parkland: A Year After the School Shooting That Was Supposed to Change Everything 

The New York Times 

“Ask the survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in more quiet moments about the awful year since last Feb. 14, and they tell you a different, more personal story. About innocence lost. Dreams undone. Grief delayed.” 

 

Inside the Largest and Most Controversial Shelter for Migrant Children in the U.S. 

NPR 

“We see extremely traumatized children, some of whom sit across from us and can't stop crying over what they're experiencing.” 

 

Equal-Opportunity Evil 

Slate 

“A new history reveals that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable—and brutal—as it was for men.” 

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