Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada, president of the American Library Association, discussed a year of unprecedented book bans — many targeting titles with LGBTQIA-related content.
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Southern schools’ history textbooks: A long history of deception, and what the future holds | Montgomery Advertiser
— Bryan Lyman, Montgomery Advertiser For much of the 20th century, southern classrooms treated Black history — when they touched the subject at all — as a sideshow to a white-dominated narrative. Teachers taught students to sing Dixie and memorize long lists of forgettable governors. Civil War battles got described in detail. Textbooks celebrated the violent […]
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Georgia High School Teachers Welcome Students To Online Learning In Viral Video | Essence
Two Georgia high school teachers have gone viral after remixing Jack Harlow’s “What’s Poppin” to welcome their students to online learning as we continue to adjust to the coronavirus pandemic. By Breanna Edwards, Essence Audrianna Williams and Callie Evans, both teachers at the Monroe Comprehensive High School, said that they wanted to show their students that they […]
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Agnes Scott College to go online for fall semester | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Eric Stirgus, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Agnes Scott College joined the small, but growing, list of metro Atlanta higher education institutions that will conduct all of its classes online for the fall semester. The Decatur-based, private, women’s college announced Monday afternoon it will go to a remote learning format, citing the recent increase of COVID-19 […]
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A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention. | ProPublica
A 15-year-old in Michigan was incarcerated during the coronavirus pandemic after a judge ruled that not completing her schoolwork violated her probation. “It just doesn’t make any sense,” said the girl’s mother. By Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica This story was co-published with the Detroit Free Press and Bridge Magazine. PONTIAC, Mich. — One afternoon in mid-June, […]
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Denver School Principal On How Black Students Led Swift Changes To History Curriculum | NPR WAMU 88.5
By Ailsa Chang + Jonaki Mehta, NPR WAMU 88.5 Across the country, students of color have been demanding change from their schools. At one Denver school, the push for a more inclusive and diverse curriculum came last year, from a group of African American high school students at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early College. […]
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Student Who Collected Garbage To Pay For College Is Accepted Into Harvard Law | Essence
A GoFundMe to help Rehan Staton pay for his tuition as he embarks on this new journey has raised more than $70,000 in a week. By Breanna Edwards, Essence A 24-year-old Maryland college graduate is on his way to Harvard Law School, despite the fact that the odds weren’t always in his favor, due to […]
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The Supreme Court Justice Who Forever Changed Affirmative Action | The Atlantic
Justice Lewis Powell’s ruling in the 1978 case Regents v. Bakke buoyed affirmative action—but in the process, it transformed how colleges think about race and equality in admissions.
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How to prepare your kids for jobs that don’t exist yet | Fast Company
Artificial Intelligence will rule the jobs of the future, so learning how to work with it will be key. But the skills needed might not be what you expect.
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Explore 150 years of Hampton University history in new exhibit | Daily Press
Artifacts displaying the skills learned and the work done by students at what is now Hampton University will be on display at the historically black university’s museum beginning Friday.
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