education

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• SOURCE: BU Today
  10/15/19
  

  Historian Andrew David Teaching Impeachment during an Impeachment Inquiry

  Andrew David pivots his lecture to teach about American presidential history as it unfolds.

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• SOURCE: The Orange County Register
  9/19/19
  

  Eric Gonzaba Uses T-shirts, address books to explore LGBTQ history

  by Susan Gill Vardon

  Dr. Gonzaba is excited about finding ways to involve his students in a project he has been working on since 2014 — Wearing Gay History, an award-winning digital mapping project that explores the global history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through T-shirts.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/12/19
  

  What White Kids Learn About Race in School

  by Eric Loomis

  Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. schools remain largely segregated. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/19/19
  

  New Documents Illuminate The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

  by Asher Price

  Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.

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• SOURCE: Real Clear Investigations
  9/17/19
  

  The Ethnic Studies Movement Is Making Big Inroads in America's High Schools

  Teachers around the country are already offering ethnic studies classes, units or lessons on their own initiative, citing a growing urgency to confront racism, sexism, homophobia and other entrenched social inequalities.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/10/19
  

  9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Textbooks are not the go-to resource for learning about 9/11 in 2019.  

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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
  

  How the advanced placement program is failing students

  by Annie Abrams

  A new cookie-cutter website designed by the College Board represents a perversion of the program’s original mission of fostering creative and critical thinking.

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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: Vox
  8/26/19
  

  How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery

  by Cynthia Greenlee

  Textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. And they still have a long way to go.

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• SOURCE: 13 News
  8/24/19
  

  Virginia Gov. Northam establishes Commission on African American history education

  Governor Northam signed an executive order establishing the Commission on African American History Education on Saturday, August 24.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/25/19
  

  George Washington owned slaves and ordered Indians killed. Will a mural of that history be hidden?

  by Gillian Brockell

  This is the story of the layers of history that will continue to exist underneath, whether the murals are covered by curtains, panels or paint.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/12/19
  

  Illinois Governor Signs Bill Mandating Public Schools Teach LGBTQ History

  The measure is being praised as a “life-saving law” that has placed the state “on the right side of history.”  

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/15/19
  

  Push for Ethnic Studies in Schools Faces a Dilemma: Whose Stories to Tell

  California’s newly proposed model ethnic studies curriculum has led to bitter debate in recent weeks.

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• SOURCE: HistPhil
  July 30, 2019
  

  More Lore Than Law: The Dartmouth College Case And The Myth Of The Purely Private College

  by John R. Thelin

  The blurred line between public and private education.

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• SOURCE: Pacific Standard
  7/30/19
  

  New Studies Finds Professors Don't Discriminate Against Conservative Students

  by David M. Perry

  A major study led by a lifelong Republican finds no evidence that professors are deliberately giving conservative students bad grades.

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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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• 7/17/19
  

  The Truth About the Holocaust and Holocaust Education

  by Ira Bedzow and Stacy Gallin

  A high school principal was removed from his position after refusing to admit that the Holocaust was a “factual, historical event.” This is not only unacceptable, it is irresponsible. One does not need to be a professional historian to know that the Holocaust occurred.

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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: NY Times
  7/6/19
  

  ‘Do You Support Busing?’ Is Not the Best Question

  Issues of educational inequality raised by a 1970s-era practice remain relevant today, but language can obscure what’s really at stake.