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Showing Up to Advocate for Education
This educator sees great value in meeting with legislators to advocate for education. Here are her suggestions for making it happen.
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We Need the Lessons of Reconstruction
Now, more than ever, the teaching of Reconstruction needs to be a central component of history education in high school.
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Will This Solve School Segregation in NYC Schools?
New York City Schools revealed its much-anticipated plan for increasing diversity and access in its public schools. But some critics say it doesn’t go far enough or name the true issue at hand.
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Ally or Accomplice? The Language of Activism
A new use of the word accomplice pushed this educator to rethink her activist approaches inside and outside the classroom.
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Proposed Medicaid Funding Cuts Could Devastate Special Education
The U.S. House’s proposed health care bill sends a clear message that special education mandates aren’t on its funding priority list.
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No Promised Land
“When Mormons settled in Missouri in the 1830s, local residents found Mormon beliefs and practices not simply strange, but wrong. … The Mormons, the Missouri governor declared, must be removed—if not by expulsion, then by extermination.”
May 22, 2017
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In the City of Brotherly Love
“The Irish and the English share a long legacy of conflict.” And this conflict extended across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World as a wave of Catholic immigrants arrived in the United States in the 1820s.
May 22, 2017
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Deaf Culture: Changes and Challenges
In his essay, Bacon provides some high-level insights into the past of America’s deaf, as well as the current culture and some potential challenges that lie ahead.
May 22, 2017
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Gloria and Rosa Make Beautiful Music
Two friends who attend different schools in the same community learn that one of their schools has no instruments for their music program, while the other has multiple different kinds. They use their friendship and musical abilities to confront this inequity and try to bring about change.
May 19, 2017
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Years After Brown, the Battle for Integration Continues
The Brown decision represents a symbol of the country we still seek to become.