The Atlantic: “Education is not simply another commodity to buy and sell on a market. It is a shared good.”
Education Week: “In a rapidly changing political and environmental landscape, focusing on the development of global competency seems urgent.”
The Greater Good Science Center: “While stories about the impact of [social and emotional learning] may feel hopeful and uplifting to educators, parents, and others, they can also convey subtle messages that harm students inside and outside of the classroom.”
The Huffington Post: “Reading LGBTQ inclusive stories is a way to validate what [students] may be already be thinking around gender and gender roles. We are planting the seed at young ages for people to think about gender.”
The Huffington Post: “Compared to their male counterparts, high-functioning girls on the spectrum are often misdiagnosed with social ‘difficulties’ instead of ‘disabilities.’”
KQED: “The type of chest pain [this student] felt, along with shortness of breath and other physical symptoms of anxiety, are complaints some Bay Area pediatricians said they’re seeing more of in immigrant and Muslim populations.”
National Public Radio: “With Islam estimated to be the fastest growing religion in the country, private Islamic institutions are gaining the same acceptance in American education that other religious schools have long enjoyed.”
National Women’s Law Center: “Every year, thousands of girls are pushed out of school as a result of a variety of often overlapping educational barriers, including homelessness, family instability, discriminatory discipline practices, society’s collective failure to prevent or adequately address harassment and sexual violence, and the failure of schools to recognize and properly respond to trauma.”
The New York Times: “The fact that my skin color matches that of my students doesn’t give me any superpowers as an educator. But it does give me the ability to see them in a way that’s untarnished by the stereotypes, biases and cultural disconnects that fuel inequality and injustice.”
Southern California Public Radio: “[U.C. Santa Barbara education researcher Michael Gottfried] found that 12 percent of the children who took the school bus were chronically absent, two percent lower than kindergarteners who didn’t take the bus.”
The Washington Post: “The number of minority teachers more than doubled in the United States over a 25-year period but still represent less than 20 percent of the country’s elementary and secondary school teaching force.”
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