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Causing discomfort remains legal
Lessons that cause students discomfort remain legal everywhere, even in Florida, writes Peter Minowitz, a Santa Clara University...
Joanne Jacobs
May 10, 20222 min read
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What’s ‘age appropriate’ for young students?
Parents and teachers want lessons to be “age appropriate,” but disagree on when children are ready for painful topics, writes Marta W....
Joanne Jacobs
May 10, 20222 min read
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Teaching about racism: Americans are divided
Americans agree that schools should teach about historic racism and slavery, but divided on present-day racism, writes Matt Barnum on...
Joanne Jacobs
May 9, 20221 min read
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Discipline rules aren’t racist
Students Suspended from School Compared to Student Population, by Race, Sex, and Disability Status, School Year 2013-14 Black students...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 13, 20182 min read
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White girl plays racist in school play
Anastasia Bertram, 7, one of the only white students at her Georgia elementary school, was cast as a segregationist in the school play,...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 17, 20182 min read
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Biloxi pulls ‘Mockingbird’ for use of ‘n-word’
Biloxi (MS) eighth-graders won’t read To Kill a Mockingbird because someone complained, said Kenny Holloway, vice president of the school...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 15, 20171 min read
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Scores slip after ‘equity’ focus
“Racial equity” became the priority in Edina Public Schools (EPS), an affluent Minneapolis suburb, in 2013. Test scores are falling,...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 9, 20172 min read
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Seuss museum will remove ‘racist’ mural
replace a mural, taken from And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, because three children’s authors complained about the...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 7, 20171 min read
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Is The Cat in the Hat racist?
Is The Cat in the Hat Racist? asks Stephen Sawchuk in Education Week. In honor of Read Across America Day, which is celebrated on the...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 7, 20172 min read
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Success succeeds for black, Latino kids
Success Academy Charter Schools students — nearly all from low-income black and Latino families — “outperformed every district in New...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 28, 20172 min read
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Suspended for racist images, boys sue school
Four Bay Area 11th graders suspended for “liking” or commenting on a racist Instagram image have sued the school district and...
Joanne Jacobs
May 10, 20172 min read
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College ‘diversity council’ admits racism hoax
Posters calling for “white Americans” to report “illegal aliens” alarmed Gustavus Adolphus College students, who flooded Bias Response...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 26, 20171 min read
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Parents matter more than race, poverty
Growing up in a fragmented, fatherless family is the greatest barrier to success for students, argues Ian Rowe on Flypaper. “Racism and...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 2, 20171 min read
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College writing center: Grammar is racist
Grammar is “racist,” proclaims the writing center at the University of Washington, Tacoma. In fact, everything’s racist. Language...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 21, 20171 min read
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