The Atlantic: “How are teachers best able to help students make sense of the many historical comparisons and the controversial issues facing the nation?”
CNN: “School districts from Pennsylvania to California have stepped up efforts to allay fear and uncertainty in immigrant communities.”
Edmodo: “Remembering to practice empathy and patience isn’t easy, but putting in the effort will pay off by helping your students understand tolerance and making your classroom a safe space.”
The Hechinger Report: “‘Welcoming refugees is not a political issue. It’s about people.’”
The Hechinger Report: “Emerging evidence suggests that one of [virtual reality’s] biggest strengths is its ability to tap student emotions, notably empathy and the can-do confidence known as self-efficacy.”
The Jose Vilson: “Every teacher has decisions to make about their identities when they become teachers for longer than a couple of years. For teachers of color, they must either assimilate so as to appear safe or they must become activated so they don’t feel like a lie.”
National Public Radio: “In sometimes spare language, the ads represent the deep family ties that endured through the Civil War and beyond slavery, despite the best effort of slave owners to sever those ties.”
National Public Radio: “Legal arguments about whether protections against sex discrimination in Title IX and other federal laws extend to gender identity, central to the lives of transgender people, are still very much active in the courts.”
The New York Times: “On the occasion of Black History Month, I’ve selected the most influential books on race and the black experience published in the United States for each decade of the nation’s existence — a history of race through ideas, arranged chronologically on the shelf.”
The Root: “Students at Westminster (Md.) High School are planning to take a stand after school administrators in Carroll County demanded that teachers take down posters promoting diversity from classrooms.”
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