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In Defense of Our Teachers
When it comes to the daunting question of reopening schools, America’s educators deserve a plan, not a trap.
When it comes to the daunting question of reopening schools, America’s educators deserve a plan, not a trap.
How to talk about race in the classroom
Yes, remote schooling has been a misery—but it’s offering a rare chance to rethink early education entirely.
Chuck Yarborough on helping kids make connections between the past and the present
Robert Roth on an anti-racist approach to high-school history
“I don’t know how I’m going to get through the day. I’m not in the place that I need to be, to be positive for the kids. Give me a boost; I need a laugh.”
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Frederick K. Brewington’s education came at the end of a bitter civil-rights battle that engulfed New York State, more than a decade after Brown v. Board of Education.
Millicent Brown changed Charleston, then watched it stay the same.
Sonnie Hereford IV desegregated Alabama’s public schools in 1963. He was only 6 years old.
Jo Ann Allen Boyce and 11 other students desegregated their high school in Clinton, Tennessee. Then the riots came.
Hugh Price and his family fought for him to be one of the first Black students at his all-white high school in Washington, D.C. But once he was there, he “couldn’t wait for it to be over.”
Over the past two years, I talked with veteran educators across the country as I tried to answer this question.
A unique elementary-school science lab in Michigan lets kids’ curiosity fuel their learning.
It’s a win-win: Elders get a way to combat loneliness, teachers and parents get help they desperately need, and children get another grown-up to guide them through remote learning.
Rahn Broady’s mission is to introduce New Orleans students to the magic of nature.
Deborah Cornelison on motivating students who don’t want a career in STEM
Josephine Tatauq Bourdon on integrating Indigenous knowledge and language into Western curriculum
Tracy Murray on helping kids develop emotional and social skills
Schools do students a disservice when they fail to teach them about difficult issues.
Justin Bilton and Jason Stark on the importance of teaching students about systemic violence