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Category: Progressive Education
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Today's post comes from educator David Chura, author of I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup. He has worked with at-risk teenagers for the past 40 years. For 26 of those years, he taught English and creative writing in community based alternative schools and in a county penitentiary. His…
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How has desegregation failed our schools? How do we learn from those failures without ignoring the successes?
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Bill and Rick Ayers call on us to show our teachers appreciation by helping them do what they do best.
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Communities need to be models of appreciative behavior towards our teachers.
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When our high-stakes testing regime discourages learning, who is really the failure?
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David L. Hudson, Jr. is a First Amendment Scholar with the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University. He teaches at Vanderbilt University Law School and Nashville School of Law. He is the author of Let the Students Speak!: A History of the Fight For Free Expression in American Schools. Dissenting opinions obviously don’t have the force of law…
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William Ayers looks at how we can envision education as something other than just a commodity, and to teach for a democratic society.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s prayers provide instruction for communities of faith seeking inspiration.
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Carl Elliott is the author of White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine. Elliott is a professor at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, the Believer, Slate, the London Review of Books, and the American Prospect. His six previous books include Better Than Well, Prozac As a Way of Life,…
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