The Atlantic: “In all likelihood, vouchers will lead to more racial, religious, and socioeconomic segregation in schools.”
CBS News: “Sesame Street has always based its characters and content on extensive research. ... In the case of Julia, they also worked with autism organizations to decide which characteristics she should have and how best to normalize autism for all children.”
Education Week: “My job as an educator is not to perpetuate an oppressive system, but rather to give students the tools to dismantle it. Ultimately, that’s what the canon has often been. It’s been a way to silence the stories of those not in power by claiming they lack importance or influence.”
The Guardian: “‘The Mercator [map] projection is a symbolic representation that put Europe at the center of the world. And when you continue to show images of the places where people’s heritage is rooted that is not accurate, that has an effect on students.’”
The Hechinger Report: “The GNETS [Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support] system violates the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, both by segregating children with disabilities and by denying them access to an equal education.”
The Huffington Post: “The Monroe Work Today research group launched a map earlier this year that allows users to discover the roughly 4,770 people of color lynched in the United States from the 1830s to the 1960s.”
National Public Radio: “We still don’t know is whether students who escape suspension under new discipline policies will eventually end up better off.”
NEA Today: “This glaring gap between policy and practice ... suggests the global community is ignoring its responsibility ‘to help children and youth who have fled regions affected by armed conflict go to and stay in school.’”
The New York Times: “Iowa is one of 31 states where legislators have proposed creating or expanding school choice programs this year, without Washington even lifting a finger.”
The New York Times: “Museums that preserve and present the truth are also fighting revisionists and Holocaust deniers who are increasingly vocal on the internet, and who are confusing the public, at a time when firsthand accounts of the Holocaust are fading.”
The Washington Post: “The ‘evidence is overwhelming that the unjustified incarceration of African American fathers (and, increasingly, mothers as well) is an important cause of the lowered performance of their children’ and of the racial achievement gap.”
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