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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.
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