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Category: Progressive Education
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An unusual immigration asylum case puts German and U.S. law at odds over the right to homeschool children.
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The following is an excerpt from Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors by Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund. Edelman was a student of the late Howard Zinn at Spelman College. Photo by Roslyn Zinn HOWARD ZINN The tall, lanky professor and I arrived at Spelman College together in 1956. He…
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Too many kids are faced with draconian punishment under zero-tolerance laws.
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In honor of the holiday honoring the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr., an excerpt from his final book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
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In honor of Don Belton, whose death on December 27th was a great loss, Beacon Broadside shares this essay from Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream.
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Cesar Cota was the first in his family to attend college. “Now it’s hard to achieve my dream,” he says, “because the state put higher fees on us, and cut services and classes.”
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Michael Patrick MacDonald’s All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, still resonates with readers of all ages ten years after it was first published.
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Nancy Gift took her battle over herbicide application on the lawns at her children’s school all the way to the top.
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A note about the passing of Theodore R. Sizer, of the country’s most prominent education-reform advocates.
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