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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: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/24/2022
The CRT and "Don't Say Gay" Panics Aren't About Controlling Public Schools, but Destroying Them
by Adam Laats
In the 1920s, the KKK sought to strengthen and control the public schools as vehicles to teach their version of "100% Americanism"; today's culture warriors hope to undermine trust in schools as a way to defund and privatize them.
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SOURCE: Politico
5/17/2022
The Undiscussed Backlash to Brown v. Board: The Sidelining of Black Educators
by Leslie T. Fenwick
Brown v. Board was meant to ensure that children of different racial groups would share classrooms. But resistance to allowing Black teachers and principals to oversee white students' education led an estimated 100,000 Black educators to leave their profession.
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SOURCE: Phenomenal World
5/12/2022
America's School Funding is Kleptocracy in Action
by Esther Cyna
The American system of funding schools largely through local property taxes contributes to inequalities both obvious and subtle that amount to legal dispossession of poor and minority students by denying them access to quality education.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
4/12/2022
John Thelin, Approaching Retirement, Shares Insight on the Past and Future of Higher Education
A college campus can be a spectacular stage set, but it's ultimately people – professors, students, and administrators – who make the campus a dramatic space reflecting and influencing the wider society.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
3/21/2022
Who Gets to Be American?
by Jonna Perrillo
Johann Tschinkel, a Nazi scientist, was recruited by the United States after the war. His reflections on his educational experiences in Germany and those of his children in segregated American schools, offer a warning about the efforts to control the social studies curriculum today.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/7/2022
Adults Support Empowering Youth – Until Youth Dissent
by Dara Walker
American youth are seldom credited for having a clear understanding of the policies that affect their lives. COVID safety walkouts are the latest example of student activism to be dismissed.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/28/2022
Reducing Child Poverty Is a No-Brainer even Without Brain Science
by Mical Raz
Reducing child poverty is a good in itself; justifying policies to reduce poverty in terms of improvements in measures of cognition or IQ scores makes such programs vulnerable to backlash and risks validating racist and eugenicist arguments about race and intelligence.
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SOURCE: Phi Delta Kappan
1/24/2022
School Vandalism Is a Test We Need to Pass
by Campbell F. Scribner
Student vandalism in schools is nothing new. Effective responses must reject surveillance and punishment and put student growth above the simple protection of property.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/18/2021
Today's Educator Shortages are a Product of Decades of Bullying and Ignoring Teachers
by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz
Again and again, politicians and administrators have implemented policies that make teaching unattractive work, then acted surprised when people chose other options.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/1/2021
Laugh at Parodies of School Board Meetings, but Take Local Politics Seriously
by Lily Geismer and Eitan D. Hersh
Local politics – if it involves a wide spectrum of community opinion – can help override partisan polarization, create new coalitions, and empower citizens to make meaningful change.
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SOURCE: BBC
10/11/2021
The Welsh Schoolboys Who Went on Strike Against Corporal Punishment in 1911
Historian Russell Grigg says that the student action represented a refusal of the rule-by-terror of caning.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/1/2021
Teaching the Good and Bad of History Empowers Students to Build Just Communities
by Mirelsie Velázquez
Oklahoma's new law restricting teaching about past racial atrocities will make it hard to teach about how Black and Native Oklahomans have responded to discrimination and fought for racial justice.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/27/2021
Don't Forget that "School Choice" Originated in Massive Resistance to Desegregation
by Nancy MacLean
"Rather than giving families more school options, school choice became a tool intended to give most families far fewer in the end."
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SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
9/17/2021
Indentured Students: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer on Student Debt (Monday, October 4)
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer shows that Democrats and Republicans intentionally wanted to create a student loan industry instead of generously funding colleges and universities, which eventually left millions of Americans drowning in student debt. Zoom, Monday, Oct. 4, 4:00 PM EDT.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
9/14/2021
Black American Educators: New Laws Silence Us
Historians of education and civil rights suggest that Black teachers may be justified in fearing that new content-based restrictions on teaching history may subject them to more disciplinary action than their white colleagues.
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SOURCE: Daily Beast
9/13/2021
Will Homeschool Moms be Steve Bannon's Latest Political Shock Troops?
Bannon's call to parents to withdraw their children from school to protest "Critical Race Theory" echoes the infamous 1974 Kanawha County, West Virginia Textbook Wars.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
9/12/2021
(Review) The Struggle for Black Education: On Jarvis R. Givens’s “Fugitive Pedagogy”
by Randal Maurice Jelks
Jarvis R. Givens's new study of the life of Carter G. Woodson emphasizes Woodson's work to advance Black education in an American social setting that was profoundly hostile to Black achievement and equality.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/6/2021
America's School Board Hearings are Getting Scary, but it's not the First Time
"Public schools have long been an irresistible battleground for America’s culture warriors."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/7/2021
If it Wasn't Clear, COVID Shows Teachers Don't Get "Summers Off"
by Christine A. Ogrem
School authorities have long sought to control teachers' use of summer time, while hiding behind the fiction of a 9-month employment contract. It's time to empower teachers to control that time for themselves and their schools.
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