The Baltimore Sun: “The district’s advanced classes—honors, gifted and talented, and AP—are disproportionately white, while the regular and remedial classes are disproportionately black.”
Buzzfeed: “‘America is the most accepting that it has ever been. Having 20% of millennials identify as LGBTQ is pretty groundbreaking.’”
Education Week: “The lack of children’s literature that is representative of urban children, people of color, and the wide diversity of society is well-documented. And it means that most of my students have come to know books as largely irrelevant to their lives.”
The Establishment: “I rebuke the bigoted delusion that I am not American — and so I have taken on the most unlikely of missions. I’ve decided to don the uniform of that quintessential American superhero: Captain America.”
National Public Radio: “Muslim children, in particular, have been primary targets for hate incidents.”
The New York Times: “Betsy DeVos, in her first extended policy address as education secretary, argued on Wednesday for an expansion of school choice programs, pointing to lagging test scores and a program championed by the Obama administration that funneled billions into low-performing schools but failed to produce better academic outcomes.”
The New York Times: “The narrative around missing black girls is only part of the problem. Mainstream feminism has historically ignored the issues facing runaway and other missing black girls as well as most other issues regarding women and children of color.”
Rolling Stone: “Some say an uptick in bullying incidents this fall were caused by the divisive election—but how does a school fix the underlying problems?”
The Santa Fe New Mexican: “A bill approved by the state Legislature in its recent session would ensure that students in all New Mexico public schools get meals even if their parents are behind on payments.”
Vox: “We’re seeing a true bubble of false information online. Here’s how I’ve adapted my curriculum and teaching style to make sure my students know which sources to trust—and which to reject.”
The Washington Post: “Schools sometimes create and perpetuate the negative myths about some students that damages their self-image, and it is the responsibility of teachers to help students create positive stories about themselves as learners.”
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