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Stand Up and Be Counted

An important date awaits in April, and it’s coming sooner than April 15.The Census Bureau has designated April 1 as "National Census Day," the date for mailing census forms to bureau offices. Households that don’t get their forms sent off by then will get a visit from a census taker.
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Rights & Activism
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Arts: The Secret to Making Schools Great?

Last week, I had a chance to preview documentary films that showed how a strong arts program—and that could range from mariachi to Shakespeare to poetry slams—could turn struggling schools into powerhouses of energy and promise. Last night, millions of viewers got a chance to see what students from a school that values the arts look like—on the Academy Awards, no less.
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Class Bullying & Bias
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Jaci Jones

Jaci Jones (she/her) is a social justice educator with experience as a professional learning facilitator with Learning for Justice, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and as a high school history teacher at John F Kennedy Memorial High School in Iselin, NJ. She completed her undergraduate education at Penn State University where she majored in Secondary Education and Social Studies, and minored in History and Dance. With a passion for human rights, Jaci completed her Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kean University where she now adjuncts, training teachers how to teach
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Val Brown

Val Brown is the Principal Academic Officer for the Center for Antiracist Education. She believes that education is a vehicle for social change, and encourages educators to engage in public discourse about critical topics because it allows them to learn with and from others. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Curriculum, Teaching and Teacher Education.