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Roxboro Students: Give Us More Mix It Up |
Editor’s Note: Today
is national Mix It Up at Lunch Day. This is one of several stories about how
schools across the country used Mix to shake up... |
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Getting Past ‘Stereotype Threat’ |
Researchers have known for decades that stereotyping
students can cause them to succeed or fail. But Claude Steele, a social
psychologist and provost... |
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L.A. Schools Go Hunting for the Gifted |
As a second grader, Emariye Louden
is extraordinary. He founded a botany club, and he’s taught his classmates how
to pick ripe lemons. He has also... |
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Dorothy Height: Fighting for Rights on Two Fronts |
On August
28, 1963, at the March on Washington, Dorothy Height sat on the speakers’
platform and listened to Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his “I... |
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A Time to Honor “The Children” |
On February 27, 1960, about
300 college students marched into downtown Nashville to confront Jim Crow
segregation. Each of the marchers understood... |
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Stand Up and Be Counted |
An important date awaits in April, and it’s coming sooner than April 15.
The Census Bureau has designated
April 1 as "National Census Day," the date... |
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Music Of The Civil Rights Movement |
Teachers searching for new ways to observe Black History Month now have
a great resource with "In Performance at the White House: Songs of the
Civil... |
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Taking A Stand Against Sexual Bullying |
The United States Justice
Department recently struck a blow against bullying behavior. Officials there
reversed a decade-old policy and asked to... |
