education

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• SOURCE: Southern Poverty Law Center
  5/16/2020
  

  66 years after Brown v. Board, Schools Across the South are Still Separate and Unequal

  The SPLC contends that school funding programs, including vouchers and charter schools, help to preserve and extend racial segregation in the South. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/11/2020
  

  How We Got to Sesame Street

  by Jill Lepore

  The beloved children's program grew from the need to use the overabundance of televisions to fix the dearth of preschools in 1960s America. Jill Lepore assesses how the show has changed along with society.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/27/2020
  

  Detroit Students Have a Constitutional Right to Literacy, Court Rules

  A major ruling in a lawsuit involving the Detroit public schools comes at a time when school shutdowns are expected to affect poor children most adversely.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/26/2020
  

  How Past Crises Changed America’s Public Schools — ‘And so too Will COVID-19’

  by Ann Marie Ryan and Charles Tocci

  While this certainly feels unprecedented, the history of American public schooling shows us it's not.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/27/2020
  

  Why History is Hard — and Dangerous — to Teach and how to Get Kids to Stop Thinking it is ‘Boring and Useless’

  by Edward Ayers

  Young people love history, just not history as it is forced upon them.

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• SOURCE: The Jurist
  4/25/2020
  

  Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Students Have the Right to Basic Minimum Education

  The decision in a suit brought by Detroit students against the state of Michigan referenced a number of historic cases and revives the question of whether inequality among school systems violates equal protection under the Constitution.

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• SOURCE: San Fransisco Chronicle
  4/28/2020
  

  When Will Universities Reward Teaching?

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  In 1990, Stanford president Donald Kennedy boldly admitted that his university had neglected teaching in favor of research. Universities have not heeded that warning.

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• SOURCE: Education Week
  4/23/2020
  

  Appeals Court Upholds Teacher Firing Over Holocaust Denial, 9/11 Theories

  A federal appeals court has upheld a New Jersey school district's firing of a teacher who allegedly taught his high school history students denial of the Holocaust and conspiracy theories linking the United States to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/24/2020
  

  What If Colleges Don’t Reopen Until 2021?

  "John Thelin, a University of Kentucky professor and the author of the definitive 'History of American Higher Education,' told me that he’s never seen anything like the dual crisis colleges are facing right now."

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• 4/26/2020
  

  Teaching During a Pandemic – a Century Ago

  by John Marsh

  In letters the author's grandmother wrote to her beau in the Army between 1918 and 1919, the flu was a constant subject. 

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• SOURCE: Blue Book Diaries
  4/2/2020
  

  The Liberal Arts, the People, and the Pandemic

  by Jonathan W. Wilson

  Other than professional experts, the Americans who understand the crisis best—regardless of political ideology—are those who have a well-rounded imagination.

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• SOURCE: WFAE
  3/27/2020
  

  Darius Swann Changed Charlotte's School System, Local Historian Remembers

  Local historian Pamela Grundy discusses the Rev. Dr. Darius Swann who was the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Swann v. Charlotte - Mecklenburg Board of Education. He died on March 8, at the age of 95.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/26/2020
  

  The Biggest Distance-Learning Experiment In History: Week One

  With little training and even fewer resources, in a matter of days public schools are shifting from a system of education that for centuries has focused on face to face interaction, to one that works entirely at a distance.

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• SOURCE: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  3/23/2020
  

  New, Free Family Website Subscription Provides Resources and Guidance for Remote Learning

  The Gilder Lehrman Institute is providing resources for families to help children learn history at home.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  3/26/2020
  

  Reviving the Original Purpose of Pass-Fail

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  We should use this moment to recapture some of the initial spirit of the option, argues Jonathan Zimmerman.

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• SOURCE: The Gotham Center for New York City History
  3/23/20
  

  An Interview with Historian Ansley Erickson

  Erickson is the co-editor of Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community, a new book from the Harlem Education History Project.

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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: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/10/2020
  

  Coronavirus and the Great Online-Learning Experiment

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Let’s use this crisis to determine what our students actually learn when we teach them online.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/6/2020
  

  Coronavirus School Closings: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late

  by Howard Markel

  In the history of medicine, we have never been more prepared to confront this virus than we are today. But this history also teaches us that when it comes to school closings, we must always be ready to act today — not tomorrow.

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• 3/1/2020
  

  For the love of history, let’s teach it better.

  by Laura Redford

  Let’s show students that studying the past is far more than memorizing. It can be thrilling, and can help them make more sense of the world in which they live.