education

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• SOURCE: Vox
  2/25/2021
  

  The Future of the Middle Class Depends on Student Loan Forgiveness

  Writer Anne Helen Petersen says that understanding the broken student loan system requires rejecting the narrative of individual choice and focusing on the history and social effects of debt.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/11/2021
  

  My Great-Grandmother Ida B. Wells Left a Legacy of Activism in Education. We Need that Now

  by Michelle Duster

  Activists like Ida B. Wells understood that access to education was critical to all other missions of African American advancement, but systemic inequality has persisted since emancipation.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/3/2021
  

  The Commonality between Biden’s Education Secretary and Betsy Devos is a Warning

  by Adam Laats

  Public education has long been envisioned as a black box that can fix the social problems created by inequality in the United States. When it has failed to perform this miracle, the education system has been subjected to successive waves of wrenching reform. It's time to fix the society outside the school walls. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/22/2020
  

  Billion-Dollar Book Companies Are Ripping Off Public Schools

  Although they tout the advantages of learning technology, major publishers exploit copyright law and licensing agreements to force school districts to pay $27 per student per year for temporary access to digital copies of books like "The Diary of Anne Frank." 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/21/2020
  

  A More Perfect Meritocracy

  by Agnes Callard

  Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/17/2020
  

  The Pandemic is Traumatic for Kids Like Mine. I Have No Idea How to Help Them

  by David Perry

  Adults' failure to handle the COVID pandemic will have profound effects on a generation of children, even those who seem do be doing OK with virtual schools and social isolation. 

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  12/14/2020
  

  Civil Rights Unionism and Democracy for Teachers

  by Jesse Chanin

  Nat LaCour connected civil rights unionism to teachers’ struggle to build union democracy. A remembrance and evaluation.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/8/2020
  

  What Public Education Advocates Want to See in Biden’s Pick to Succeed Betsy Devos

  Education historian Diane Ravitch and education policy advocate Carol Burris write for Valerie Straus's education column and recommend rejecting the failed experiment applying market values to public schools through "choice," charter schools, and high-stakes testing.

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  9/17/2020
  

  Education Department Opens Investigation into Princeton University after President Deems Racism 'Embedded' in the School

  The Department of Education's justification appears to boil down to the idea that acknowledging institutional racial inequality embedded over centuries is the functional equivalent of discrimination. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  9/14/2020
  

  Where Kamala Harris’ Political Imagination Was Formed

  by Tessa Rissacher and Scott Saul

  A Black cultural center in Berkeley introduced Kamala Harris to activism and the connections between culture and politics. 

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• 9/8/2020
  

  Trump Attacks Racial Sensitivity Training, 1619 Project

  Trump apparently wants to make acknowledging the existence of racism a campaign issue. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/8/2020
  

  Joe Biden Can Inspire Young People — If He Listens to Them

  by Erica Moretti

  Despite apparent progress, children and young adults remain politicized but unable to be political. Mostly this is because politics remains an old person’s game, seldom open to direct representation of young people and adolescents even in issues that directly concern them.

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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: School Diversity Notebook
  8/19/2020
  

  “Safety and Security” in Boston Schools: A History of Police and Repression

  by Matt Kautz

  Opponents of school desegregation in Boston used the police to frame Black community leaders and student protesters as criminals and disrupt community-led efforts protests.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  8/27/2020
  

  Getting Creative With Course Assessments

  When navigating online education, faculty should stray away from traditional exams and opt for innovative assignments that will engage students rather than stress them out.

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• SOURCE: Roanoke (VA) Times
  8/18/2020
  

  UMW, City of Fredericksburg Partner in Effort to More Accurately Tell the Local Civil Rights Story

  Christine Henry, an assistant professor of historic preservation at UMW, will contribute to this project with her fall semester upper level seminar “Diversity in Historic Preservation.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/17/2020
  

  High School Students Are Demanding Schools Teach More Black History, Include More Black Authors

  “The education system is where people form values other than what their parents have,” 18 year old Vanessa Amoah of Omaha said. “George Floyd, Philando Castile — none of it would have happened if this country worked on proactively teaching anti-racist values."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/13/2020
  

  ’Back To School’ Amid a Pandemic and Uprisings Gives Teachers a Unique Opportunity

  by Kabria Baumgartner

  The history of Black women educators shows a path for teachers to directly engage the social conflicts and inequalities that affect their students lives. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/5/2020
  

  The Undemocratic History of School ‘Pandemic Pods’

  by Mark Boonshoft

  The Coronavirus pandemic threatens to entrench the undemocratic practice of exclusive education for children of the rich. 

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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.