The Cult of Homework
The Atlantic
“As many children, not to mention their parents and teachers, are drained by their daily workload, some schools and districts are rethinking how homework should work—and some teachers are doing away with it entirely.”
In This California Classroom, Students Teach Each Other Their Home Languages—And Learn Acceptance
EdSource
“[Students] started making friends with each other—across cultural lines. Other students who were not in that class would come in and see something written in Mam on the board and exclaim, ‘Hey, that’s Mam! I speak Mam!’”
Mock Auctions. Pretending to Flee Captors. Do Simulations Have a Place in Lessons on Slavery?
Education Week
“You cannot actually replicate this experience. What you’ve basically done is gamify it, and by gamifying it, you’re actually reducing the horror. Yes, you could work harder to make it more real, then you’re potentially introducing trauma.”
Confronting Racism Is Not About the Needs and Feelings of White People
The Guardian
“I speak because there are people of color in the room who need to hear that they shouldn’t have to carry the burden of racial oppression, while those who benefit from that same oppression expect anti-racism efforts to meet their needs first.”
Segregation Has Been the Story of New York City’s Schools for 50 Years
The New York Times
“64 years [after Brown v. Board of Education], what do we, the collective we, have to show for that? I will tell you that in communities across America, the answer is, not much.”
‘How to Move On’: In Parkland, Grief Has Become Ever-Present
The Washington Post
“For a community that longs to figure out how to move on from one of the deadliest school shootings in the nation’s history, the two new deaths peeled open a wound that hadn’t fully healed. The suicides reaffirmed there can be no simple recovery.”
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