education

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• SOURCE: BookRiot
  3/22/2023
  

  US House "Parental Rights" Bill Threatens to Take Book Banning Nationwide

  Each of the five “common sense principles” the bill's sponsor articulates are already granted to parents. What the bill really seeks is to empowe political groups to dictate the content of education and advance the privatization of public schools. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3/22/2023
  

  DeSantis Moves to Expand "Don't Say Gay" Law Coverage to all Grades

  The move would exempt lessons in state-mandated health instruction, but such courses would require allowing parents to opt out of them. The change could be implemented by the state board of education without legislative approval. 

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• SOURCE: Teen Vogue
  3/14/2023
  

  Neoliberalism: Why is the Market Involved in Your Hallway Hangout?

  by John Patrick Leary

  A guide for teens and others to start thinking about how the big political and economic systems we live under shape our lives. Hint: it's about the conflicts between capitalism and democracy.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/13/2023
  

  Why Burned-Out Teachers are Heading for the Door

  America's teachers are a diverse group, and the sources of their frustration likewise. But it's clear that a flood of educators out of the profession is a risk for America's schools as the pandemic is being followed by political interference with curriculum and book selection. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/8/2023
  

  In Florida, the Question is WHOSE Parental Rights

  Although right-leaning "parental rights" groups have been prominent advocates for state legislation affecting how schools handle race and gender issues, it's clear that those groups don't represent all parents in the state. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/27/2023
  

  If Conservatives Want to Use "Choice" to Punish Schools for "Wokeness", What Happens to the Kids?

  The annual "School Choice Week" has always been about trashing public schools and teachers unions. This year, it's also trying to scare parents about "woke indoctrination." 

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• SOURCE: Current
  1/12/2023
  

  "Classical Christian" Education Movement Can and Must Clean House of White Nationalists

  by Jessica Hooten Wilson

  The classical educational tradition can be more than a vehicle for reaction and defense of hierarchy if educators recognize the diversity that already exists in the non-male and non-European thinkers represented among its foundational texts. 

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• SOURCE: The Progressive
  12/5/2022
  

  The Culture War on Public Education

  by Peter Greene

  The multifront culture war beseiging schools has one unifying principle: undermining trust in public schools so they can be privatized, without regard for the best interests of children. 

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• SOURCE: Education Week
  11/16/2022
  

  Scholars Weigh In: Is a Comprehensive US History Course Still Possible?

  A Gilder Lehrman Center panel examined the potential and problems of trying to teach a comprehensive history of the nation in light of multiculturalism and the growing diversity of historical perspectives on slavery, emancipation and equality. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/21/2022
  

  School Politics at the Center of DeSantis's Conservatism

  by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

  Although contemporary conservatives tend to malign public schools and teachers, they are tapping into a long historical legacy in which widespread education was conditioned on the promise that schools would inculcate nationalism and the morality of conservative ruling elites. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/26/2022
  

  Disrupt the March of "Disruptive Innovation"

  by Kevin Gannon

  The economy of innovation and publicity in higher education often rewards people who claim credit for ideas over the people who work to develop, test, and implement them. Academia needs a collaborative model of innovation. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/12/2022
  

  The Selective Politics of the "Learning Loss" Debate

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  Discussions of the disruption to learning caused by COVID-related school closures often ignore the endemic inequalities in American education and exposure to harm from COVID, and sideline the voices of teachers who have been sounding the alarm about the dangerous state of their facilities for years. 

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• SOURCE: True North Research
  9/14/2022
  

  Disinformation Groups are Taking Dark Money to Influence Schools – and Elections

  by Alyssa Bowen

  National conservative groups are using "dark money" organizations to fund a national campaign of complaint about gender and race in schools to try to create a wedge issue for the 2022 midterms and beyond, says a progressive watchdog organization. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/19/2022
  

  Parental Rights Crusades Often Conceal Other Motives

  by Edward Larson

  Public schools have always been about more than academics, so it's important to look carefully at the actions of any group claiming to represent the parents' role in education. 

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• SOURCE: Observer
  9/15/2022
  

  What "Parental Rights" Debates are Getting Wrong

  by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

  The success of the right-wing Moms For Liberty organization in raising fears of critical race theory and gender ideology obscure other historical models of parental activism; a cartoonish image of parents as reactionaries prevents dialogue that can get parents productively involved. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/27/2022
  

  The Classic Model of Education and Democracy Can't Address Today's School Politics

  by Steven Mintz

  The idea of education serving democracy by producing informed citizens is tested by the lack of agreement about what that goal means. Can the competing claims on the education system be reconciled? 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/8/2022
  

  Michael Hines Recovers the Legacy of Black Educator Madeline Morgan

  The pioneering educator recognized that Black students needed a curriculum that transmitted knowledge but also countered the prevailing ideology of racial hierarchy. A new biography shows how progress in education is never fully secure. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  5/24/2022
  

  School Privatizers are Carrying the Culture War Banner

  Moral panics are proving useful for a right-wing agenda of undermining public trust in public education; America's oligarchs are stoking them, argues a school social worker. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/12/2022
  

  Social-Emotional Learning Doesn't Have to be a Culture War Wedge Issue

  by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

  Why are efforts at teaching empathy and emotional self-regulation being treated as left-wing indoctrination? 

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• SOURCE: ChalkBeat
  5/3/2022
  

  Where Americans Agree and Disagree on Teaching Race in School

  Polls show that 2/3 of Americans think schools need to change how much attention they give to race in the curriculum, but they are split, along party and racial lines, between those who want more and those who want less, making this likely to remain a political wedge issue.