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The End-of-Year Mental Health Check
As the academic year winds down, mental health professionals remind us to connect with young people and embrace community care.
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Preserving a More Honest History
Want to take a field trip to a historic home or plantation? Here’s how to choose one that honors the enslaved people who lived and worked there.
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Policy Checkup: Addressing and Preventing Sexual Assault in Schools
Educators can use the #metoo movement as an opportunity to make sure their schools have policies in place to protect students and staff from sexual assault and harassment. Here’s how.
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Section I: Policy Checkup
Policies reflect a school’s priorities and, like budgets, reveal as much in what they omit as in what’s written on the page. It’s time more LGBTQ kids see themselves on the page. School leaders who make inclusive
October 25, 2018
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Meet "Team Wildin"
Interview conducted by Matt Villano. There’s no telling what would have happened to Wildin Acosta if his classmates and teachers hadn’t mobilized on his behalf. While the adults at Riverside High School were critical in
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Understanding How Schools Are Labeled
What goes into the process of labeling schools, and how reliable are those labels — especially when a school is labeled as “failing”? This is the second of three articles on public schools as a common good, which explore the possibilities and threats to public education.
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The Code Noir (1685)
The Code Noir shows the ways in which the French regulated their colonies using a race and religion based legal framework.
January 4, 2018
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Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
South Carolina’s Declaration provides its justification for seceding from the union, revolving around maintaining the institution of slavery, which it believes is threatened by free states.
January 6, 2018
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Walking with the Wind
In this excerpt from his book, Walking with the Wind, John Lewis describes his involvement in the sit-ins in Nashville, Tenn., in the spring of 1960.
August 9, 2017