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Gender Segregation: Separate But Effective?
Gender-segregated classrooms are on the rise in the U.S. — especially the Southeast — but research regarding their effectiveness remains inconclusive.
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Why Women’s History Month Matters in 2016
Women’s History Month is a crucial time to remind the nation and the world of women’s important work and the barriers that exist to full gender equality.
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Take This Non-Expert Advice
How to teach about religious diversity without being a world religions “expert.”
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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
The novel's main character, Joey, is introduced in this excerpt. Joey is full of spunk, but he also has trouble focusing and controlling all of his urges—which sometimes leads him to make bad choices.
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Life in the Iron Mills
This short story—acclaimed as one of the earliest examples of American realism—paints a bleak picture of industrial workers' lives in the mid-1800s.
July 7, 2014
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StoryCorps: We Were Caught
“The only way that I could see out of that situation was to take my life.”
July 8, 2014
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When Our Leaders Let Us Down
How do we talk to our students about incidents like last week’s Ralph Northam blackface photograph scandal?
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Immigrant fathers and sons communicate on the soccer field
“Traditional sports build cultural solidarity. In rural North Carolina, Tomás, a retired semi-professional soccer player from Mexico, co-founds an organized soccer league with family and fellow Central and Latin American undocumented immigrants. The common language of the sport forges bonds among the players and across generations, helping to foster more open communication between fathers and sons, and creates mentoring relationships with other adults. Moreover, the league's frequent games promote physical and psychological resilience in a community burdened by the risk of deportation.”
June 27, 2019