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Mimi's Moms |
Before Michele Hatchell and her partner, Liz, sent their child, Mimi, to school for the first time, the family sat down and created a script. “What... |
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You’re Not from Around Here |
Adams-Friendship High School sits in the center of Wisconsin, a
few miles east of a national wildlife refuge, surrounded by farmland. Vincent
High... |
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Title IX at 40 |
Beyond the Playing FieldWhen Kristen Galles was a 7th
grader in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she wanted to enroll in shop class. But there was
a problem. At... |
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Defining Moments \ di-'fī-ning 'mō-mnts \ |
Every 10 or so years, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt releases a new edition of the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary. In 2009, editors did something... |
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'Homo High' |
Soon after the Center on Halsted
opened in 2007, Rick Garcia, whose office overlooks Halsted Street, began to
notice something troubling.
The
Center... |
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Lonely Language Learners? |
When Bessie Alexopolous and her parents moved from Greece to the United States, she didn't know a word of English. As the only Greek-speaking student... |
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One Nation, Many Gods |
In West Virginia, a public high school refuses to remove a painting of Jesus that hangs outside the principal's office. In Georgia, legislators vote... |
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'THIS is Why We Need a GSA' |
For several weeks last spring, fliers announcing Sennett Middle School's Gay-Straight Alliance were torn from the hallways, revealing a hidden... |
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'Gates of Change' |
On September 4, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus ordered National Guard troops to surround Central High School in Little Rock, to keep nine black... |
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Learning Lakota |
Vicki Sherman starts her day with a cup of Folgers and a glance at her to-do list, even though halfway through the morning, the list will fly out the... |
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Escuela de la frontera (Border School) |
Drive south from Tucson on I-19, and watch as the pink stucco houses, the turquoise-colored strip malls and the boulevards lined with palm trees give... |
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Crossing Borders/Border Crossings |
On a cool morning in Whitfield County, Ga., a thin boy named Alfredo sits alone at the edge of the classroom. Shoulders hunched forward, Alfredo... |
