students

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• 9/1/2020
  

  The Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights Announces its Launch, September 3, 2020

  A group of historians has launched a new group dedicated to making sure that college students are able to exercise their right to vote. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/27/2020
  

  Why History is Hard — and Dangerous — to Teach and how to Get Kids to Stop Thinking it is ‘Boring and Useless’

  by Edward Ayers

  Young people love history, just not history as it is forced upon them.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/3/19
  

  How the advanced placement program is failing students

  by Annie Abrams

  A new cookie-cutter website designed by the College Board represents a perversion of the program’s original mission of fostering creative and critical thinking.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/3/19
  

  Police and punitive policies make schools less safe, especially for minority students

  by Kathryn Schumaker

  The increase in school security is directly linked to the rise of student activism that started to transform schools 50 years ago.

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• SOURCE: NPR Codeswitch
  3/21/19
  

  The Student Strike That Changed Higher Ed Forever

  50 years ago, studying the history and culture of any people who were not white and Western was considered radical.

• SOURCE: Diverse Issues in Higher Education
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  Elwood Watson: Sexual Assault is Gender Blind

  Dr. Elwood Watson is a professor of history and African-American studies at East Tennessee State University.The fact is that 2012 was a horrible year in terms of sexual assaults on college campuses.In June 2012, Trey Malone, a junior at Amherst College and a distinguished student both academically and athletically, took his own life after he was unable to deal with the immense trauma and intense emotions he suffered after being the victim of rape by a co-ed. After his suicide, it was discovered that Malone’s experience was not an aberration. On the contrary, he was one of a number of students on the prestigious, leafy, upscale, distinguished liberal arts institution who had been the victim of such a horrific sexual violation. His death made national headlines, caused the Amherst college community to erupt, (the campus president, Carolyn Martin, aggressively denounced the perpetrators of such crimes and led the effort in instituting policies and programs to combat such behavior) sparked widespread discussion on the campus and, once again,  brought the issue of rape and sexual assault to the forefront of national debate.