education history

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/26/2022
  

  Have Children Changed in Modern America?

  by Steven Mintz

  A recent argument for the general stability of children over the last century and a half misses the key point that "childhood" has been a fluid concept, and changes in how childhood is understood has necessarily affected the experiences of children. 

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• SOURCE: The Forum
  7/22/2022
  

  "They Want Your Children!": Right-Wing School Panics Seek to Repeal Modernity

  by Rick Perlstein

  "Reactionary panics about what children learn in school are about as old as time. And they won’t ever go away."

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• 7/8/2022
  

  The Story of the School that Defied Nazi Ideological Control

  by Deborah Cadbury

  Amid the intense politicization of education today, what can we learn from one remarkable story of a teacher's defiance of official ideological control? 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/27/2022
  

  The Classic Model of Education and Democracy Can't Address Today's School Politics

  by Steven Mintz

  The idea of education serving democracy by producing informed citizens is tested by the lack of agreement about what that goal means. Can the competing claims on the education system be reconciled? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/24/2022
  

  The CRT and "Don't Say Gay" Panics Aren't About Controlling Public Schools, but Destroying Them

  by Adam Laats

  In the 1920s, the KKK sought to strengthen and control the public schools as vehicles to teach their version of "100% Americanism"; today's culture warriors hope to undermine trust in schools as a way to defund and privatize them. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  5/17/2022
  

  The Undiscussed Backlash to Brown v. Board: The Sidelining of Black Educators

  by Leslie T. Fenwick

  Brown v. Board was meant to ensure that children of different racial groups would share classrooms. But resistance to allowing Black teachers and principals to oversee white students' education led an estimated 100,000 Black educators to leave their profession. 

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• SOURCE: Phenomenal World
  5/12/2022
  

  America's School Funding is Kleptocracy in Action

  by Esther Cyna

  The American system of funding schools largely through local property taxes contributes to inequalities both obvious and subtle that amount to legal dispossession of poor and minority students by denying them access to quality education. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/12/2022
  

  John Thelin, Approaching Retirement, Shares Insight on the Past and Future of Higher Education

  A college campus can be a spectacular stage set, but it's ultimately people – professors, students, and administrators – who make the campus a dramatic space reflecting and influencing the wider society. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/21/2022
  

  Who Gets to Be American?

  by Jonna Perrillo

  Johann Tschinkel, a Nazi scientist, was recruited by the United States after the war. His reflections on his educational experiences in Germany and those of his children in segregated American schools, offer a warning about the efforts to control the social studies curriculum today. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/7/2022
  

  Adults Support Empowering Youth – Until Youth Dissent

  by Dara Walker

  American youth are seldom credited for having a clear understanding of the policies that affect their lives. COVID safety walkouts are the latest example of student activism to be dismissed.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/28/2022
  

  Reducing Child Poverty Is a No-Brainer even Without Brain Science

  by Mical Raz

  Reducing child poverty is a good in itself; justifying policies to reduce poverty in terms of improvements in measures of cognition or IQ scores makes such programs vulnerable to backlash and risks validating racist and eugenicist arguments about race and intelligence.

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• SOURCE: Phi Delta Kappan
  1/24/2022
  

  School Vandalism Is a Test We Need to Pass

  by Campbell F. Scribner

  Student vandalism in schools is nothing new. Effective responses must reject surveillance and punishment and put student growth above the simple protection of property.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/18/2021
  

  Today's Educator Shortages are a Product of Decades of Bullying and Ignoring Teachers

  by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz

  Again and again, politicians and administrators have implemented policies that make teaching unattractive work, then acted surprised when people chose other options. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/1/2021
  

  Laugh at Parodies of School Board Meetings, but Take Local Politics Seriously

  by Lily Geismer and Eitan D. Hersh

  Local politics – if it involves a wide spectrum of community opinion – can help override partisan polarization, create new coalitions, and empower citizens to make meaningful change.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  10/11/2021
  

  The Welsh Schoolboys Who Went on Strike Against Corporal Punishment in 1911

  Historian Russell Grigg says that the student action represented a refusal of the rule-by-terror of caning. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/1/2021
  

  Teaching the Good and Bad of History Empowers Students to Build Just Communities

  by Mirelsie Velázquez

  Oklahoma's new law restricting teaching about past racial atrocities will make it hard to teach about how Black and Native Oklahomans have responded to discrimination and fought for racial justice. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/27/2021
  

  Don't Forget that "School Choice" Originated in Massive Resistance to Desegregation

  by Nancy MacLean

  "Rather than giving families more school options, school choice became a tool intended to give most families far fewer in the end."

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  9/17/2021
  

  Indentured Students: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer on Student Debt (Monday, October 4)

  Elizabeth Tandy Shermer shows that Democrats and Republicans intentionally wanted to create a student loan industry instead of generously funding colleges and universities, which eventually left millions of Americans drowning in student debt. Zoom, Monday, Oct. 4, 4:00 PM EDT.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/14/2021
  

  Black American Educators: New Laws Silence Us

  Historians of education and civil rights suggest that Black teachers may be justified in fearing that new content-based restrictions on teaching history may subject them to more disciplinary action than their white colleagues. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  9/13/2021
  

  Will Homeschool Moms be Steve Bannon's Latest Political Shock Troops?

  Bannon's call to parents to withdraw their children from school to protest "Critical Race Theory" echoes the infamous 1974 Kanawha County, West Virginia Textbook Wars.