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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/28/2020
The Complicated Racial History of the High School D.C. is Renaming
Renaming Woodrow Wilson High after Edna Burke Jackson, who taught history as one of two Black faculty members in the years after desegregation, is an obvious choice.
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SOURCE: Politics and Prose Bookstore
8/31/2020
Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz – Blaming Teachers: Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History 6:00 PM Monday, August 31
Education historian Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz discusses the ways that public policy undermines teachers' authority and blames them for systemic problems with education, sponsored by Politics and Prose bookstores. Live at 6:00 PM Monday, August 31.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/11/2020
Boston Refused to Close Schools During the 1918 Flu. Then Children Began to Die
Boston's school health officials in 1918 denied that school attendance posed a heightened risk for children contracting or transmitting the flu.
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
7/30/2020
How Trump Politicized Schools Reopening, Regardless of Safety
by Diane Ravitch
Amid this uncertainty and anxiety, President Trump has decided that the reopening of schools is essential to his prospects for reelection.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/18/2020
The Demise of the Great Education Saviors
by Kevin Carey
Charter schools and testing were supposed to right historic wrongs. Now they’ve run out of political steam. What happened?
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SOURCE: Time
9/11/19
Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again
by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Any desegregation plans must be a shared burden. But are we willing to take it on?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/3/19
Police and punitive policies make schools less safe, especially for minority students
by Kathryn Schumaker
The increase in school security is directly linked to the rise of student activism that started to transform schools 50 years ago.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/16/19
NAACP challenges legality of Confederate names on Virginia schools
The NAACP is asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to “eradicate the vestiges of a shameful, racist educational system in Hanover County” by ordering the schools to be renamed.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
7/24/19
The Supreme Court decision that kept suburban schools segregated
by Jon Hale
The Milliken v. Bradley decision sanctioned a form of segregation that has allowed suburbs to escape being included in court-ordered desegregation and busing plans with nearby cities.
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SOURCE: NY Times
7/8/19
Principal Who Tried to Stay ‘Politically Neutral’ About Holocaust Is Removed
“I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee,” said the principal of a high school in Boca Raton, Fla.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/9/19
How Schools Reinvigorated the Stonewall Revolution
Perhaps, the theory was, just by existing, Gay-Straight Alliance groups could make gay kids feel less alone, and that itself could reduce suicide risk, which was common among gay teens at the time.
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SOURCE: News Observer
4/2/19
‘Never again.’ NC lawmakers consider requiring that the Holocaust be taught in schools.
“The survivors are leaving us and along with their departures, we need to make sure that we live up to the mantra of ‘Never again,’” said Richard Schwartz, vice chairman of the N.C. Council on the Holocaust.
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SOURCE: NBC News
2/26/19
Beyond Slavery and the Civil Rights Movement: Teachers Should Be Integrating Black History Into Their Lessons
by Melinda D. Anderson
According to experts, teaching an accurate and thorough version of history is essential to breaking down stereotypes and misconceptions. Yet much of what students learn about black people’s distinct American story is hit-or-miss.
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12-27-15
Review of Dale Russakoff’s “The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?”
by Luther Spoehr
"Top-down" school reform: Once more, with failing.
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4-5-15
GOP Candidates and the Educational F-Word
by Adam Laats
Once upon a time conservatives backed a federal role in education. What was different then.
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7-14-14
Kids Are Learning to be Leftists in Public Schools by Historians with an Ax to Grind?
by Adam Laats
Few topics get conservatives more riled up than the notion that kids are learning to be leftists in public schools.
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6-22-14
We Have a "Boy Problem" Alright, but It's Not New
by Julia Grant
Efforts to confront today’s “boy problem” in public education suffer from a want of historical perspective.
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SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
6-25-13
African-American history books were tossed by mistake, official says
The emergency manager appointed to oversee the Highland Park School District’s finances denied Tuesday that a large collection of black history books, tapes, film strips and other materials were deliberately discarded into Dumpsters last week from the district’s high school library.Emergency manager Donald Weatherspoon, said workers on the second floor of the library mistakenly threw them out. He said the district was able to recover them in time.It’s unclear, though, how much was really recovered. Residents said they found about 1,000 pieces of material on their own Thursday evening....
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SOURCE: WSJ
3-28-13
In Mississippi, a gray area between black and white
CLEVELAND, Miss.—The Illinois Central railroad tracks that once separated residents, white from black, have been torn out to make way for a landscaped promenade.Cleveland's largest high school, founded in 1906 exclusively for the children of white residents, now has nearly equal numbers of black and white students.But nearly a half century after a federal judge ordered Cleveland to begin school desegregation, government attorneys have returned to court to argue the district must, once and for all, "fully dismantle its racially identifiable one-race schools," in a legal battle that is again dividing the town.Public schools east of the former railroad tracks are still virtually 100% black. Schools west of the former racial divide remain predominantly white....
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
2-26-13
Chase Madar: The School Security America Doesn’t Need
Chase Madar (@ChMadar) is a civil rights attorney in New York City who has written about the proven alternatives to school security overkill. His latest book is The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story Behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower (Verso).Outrage over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre may or may not spur any meaningful gun control laws, but you can bet your Crayolas that it will lead to more seven-year-olds getting handcuffed and hauled away to local police precincts.
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