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What We’re Reading This Week: September 21, 2018

A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.

How Puerto Rico's Educators See Their Schools a Year After Hurricane Maria 

Education Week 

“The island’s education leaders are still trying to grasp the extent of the trauma they and their school communities are suffering, and how best to address that emotional and psychological pain.” 

 

Why ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ Is an Unscientific Excuse for Assault 

PBS NewsHour

“People often talk about adolescence as if we do not have the cognitive ability to decide what is right and wrong or to control our behaviors. This is not true. It’s too simplistic.” 

 

‘We Shined a Light on Just How Rigged the Game Is’ 

Politico 

“A conversation with the Parkland teens about what’s changed, what hasn’t and where they go next.” 

 

Amateur: Who Gets to Call Themselves Nonbinary? 

them. 

“Most people I admire, of all backgrounds, spend much of their lives figuring out both how to create greater equality while also sorting out how to be themselves in the face of monolithic and problematic expectations of who they are supposed to be.” 

 

'I Work 3 Jobs and Donate Blood Plasma to Pay the Bills.' This Is What It’s Like to Be a Teacher in America 

Time 

“I love teaching. But we are not paid for the work that we do.” 

 

Many Young People Don’t Vote Because They Never Learned How. Here’s a Free Class Now in Schools Trying to Change That. 

The Washington Post 

“A healthy democracy needs well-informed, active citizens. But these citizens don’t just magically appear. People learn citizenship.” 

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