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Women’s History Month Opens Path to STEM |
It never occurred to me as the young child of a physicist
that I belonged in the world of science and technology any less than my
brother.
Only when... |
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Helping Students Navigate a Violent World |
There is no greater blow to a society than when its children are harmed. Today, we are reeling. This morning, a man walked into Sandy Hook... |
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Let Your Students Weigh in on Mix It Up |
Mix It Up at Lunch Day has been the subject of much
conversation this week. From the New York Times to the Colbert Report, adults
have been weighing... |
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Stories Show We Are One Nation Indivisible |
Susan Eaton and Gina Chirichigno have been fighting social
inequity for years. Everywhere they went, they heard the same thing from
schools and... |
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End Out-of-School Suspensions |
Today, the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC),
together with the Opportunity to Learn Campaign, launches Solutions Not
Suspensions, a national... |
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Summit Illuminates Immigrant Student Bullying |
Last week’s Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention
Summit in Washington, D.C., shone light on an often overlooked
group—immigrant students.
Khin... |
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How Many Studies Does It Take? |
Every time a new study is released showing black students
are suspended at far higher rates than any of their peers, the public seems
shocked. Words... |
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I Can See Clearly Now |
Students who don’t see well don’t learn well. There may be a
place to buy eyeglasses in every mall, but for many children, a visit to the
eye doctor... |
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Teacher Blocks ‘Deviant’ Atheist Club |
When JT Eberhard of the Secular Student Alliance
(SSA), an organization providing support to nontheistic students, received a
letter from a teacher... |
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Are Your Students Targets of Racial Profiling? |
It’s summertime, and students have replaced class time with
free time. In the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, parents and
teachers are painfully... |
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Bring Social Justice Poetry to Your Classroom |
Poet Adrienne Rich once asked:
How can we connect the
process of learning to write well with [a] student’s own reality, and not
simply teach her/him... |
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Teacher Fired over Trayvon Martin Fundraiser |
What do you do with a teacher who provides students with
authentic learning opportunities? A teacher who invests her own resources to
support... |
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Will We Learn from Trayvon Martin’s Death? |
Editor's Note: Please note that events may have changed since this story was written.
The empty space left by the death of a young person seems... |
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LGBT Students Are Still at Risk |
On Monday, LGBT students’ rights were vindicated in a comprehensive settlement with Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District over its policies that... |
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Dissent or Disruption? |
Schools have a responsibility to maintain a safe learning
environment for all students—this seems on first examination a simple enough
statement. It... |
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Can Student Activism Break Free from Facebook? |
A group calling itself “Passive Activism” claims on Facebook
that it’s dedicated to “spreading awareness about people who spread awareness,
rather... |
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A PFOX in Sheep’s Clothing |
Can you imagine buying groceries if boxes of sugar were
labeled "peanut butter" and ice cream cartons read "chicken noodle soup"? You
may laugh, but... |
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Join Tucson’s Fight for Desegregation |
Mention school desegregation, and most people
envision the Little Rock Nine—not the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD).
But Tucson is exactly... |
