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Category: Progressive Education
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When a minority of youth lash out violently, their crimes are met with outrage, revulsion and an almost exclusively punitive response. But there is more to young people than flash mobs and riots.
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David Chura knows what it’s like to teach under less-than-ideal conditions, and he knows why teachers continue to do so.
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Beacon Press author Carl Elliott has been under attack in a scenario best described by one of his many defenders as “Orwellian.” In order to defend academic freedom, his university argues, they must prevent him from speaking.
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Out this week, Feel-Bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling from one of the most outspoken and incisive thinkers in education, Alfie Kohn.
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From Friday night lights to the Fighting Okra, a small Texas college finds a new use for their football field.
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Dr. Ernest Morrell will speak at this year’s Race, Education, and Democracy lecture series at Simmons College.
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Kim E. Nielsen discusses labor rights, education, and the state of Wisconsin.
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If we want schools to stop failing, society needs to address the root causes of the achievement gap.
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Black and Latino youth are just as engaged with technology as their white, Asian, and more affluent counterparts. But how can educators use this engagement to foster learning?
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Linda Nathan explains the differences between charter and pilot schools, and speaks up in defense of the “villains” of the new film Waiting for Superman.
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