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Category: Progressive Education
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With a new school year just around the corner, students are stocking up on supplies and teachers are polishing their curriculum plans. To help the latter, Beacon offers guides to help in teaching many of our most popular titles. Find these and other teachers guides at our Scribd page and at Beacon.org. Psst: if you're…
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Teachers aren’t afraid of their students, school shooters, or angry helicopter parents. What scares them most?
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An NPR profile looks at the life work of Robert Moses, a civil rights hero and educational visionary.
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If you take the time to watch one TED Talk this week, make it this one. Geoffrey Canada is an educational innovator, and in this video (part of which appeared on PBS) he makes a powerful argument for changing the way we think about public education. Canada knows how to help kids achieve great things:…
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Do kids learn more when they read dry government documents or when they connect with a book or poem that speaks to their experiences?
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The first extended look into the nation’s first Muslim institution of higher education, Zaytuna College
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Bill Ayers argues that in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal, the real problem is standardized testing.
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Three questions for David Chura about the challenges and rewards of teaching.
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Sarah Garland talks about the achievements and disappointments of desegregation.
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Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended the era of school desegregation, changing how schools across America…
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