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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/23/2023
Civics Education is at Rock Bottom. We Can Raise it Back Up
by Danielle Allen
Both disinvestment in the civics curriculum and political fights over what to teach mean that US children learn little about the democratic process at all. A new project aims to rebuild consensus about the need for civics and lay out guiding principles.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
5/18/2023
American Students Deserve Better than the AP System
Annie Abrams: "If we want to expand access to college, why aren’t we doing that by employing Ph.D.s? If we want to support high school teachers and strengthen curriculum, why aren’t we fostering collaboration? Instead, we’re outsourcing that work."
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5/14/2023
Mary Wollstonecraft's Diagnosis of the Prejudices Holding Back Girls' Education Remains Relevant Today
by Victoria Bateman
Since Wollstonecraft's 1792 condemnation of the strictures of modesty and sexual purity as unjust impediments to the education of girls and women, they remain principal justifications for keeping girls out of school.
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SOURCE: Politico
4/17/2023
Right-Wing School Culture Warriors Lost the Last Election Cycle
Although midterm elections aren't always a reliable indicator, educators believe that the appeal of "parents' rights" doesn't extend to efforts to undermine public schools.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
4/7/2023
A Proponent of Technified, Skills-Based Higher Ed is Out, but His Soulless Vision Lives On
by François Furstenberg
Jason Wingard's presidency at Temple is over, but his vision of higher education shaped by the skills needs of business and the diminishment of the value of subject experts has enough backing among moneyed interests in tech and education reform to remain dangerous.
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SOURCE: The Nation
3/24/2023
Why LAUSD Teachers Walked Out
At the heart of the walkout of 60,000 education professionals is the reality that the school district's policies are keeping teachers and students in poverty that makes it harder to teach and learn, says a union official.
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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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