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SOURCE: The New Yorker
10/12/2022
The Selective Politics of the "Learning Loss" Debate
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Discussions of the disruption to learning caused by COVID-related school closures often ignore the endemic inequalities in American education and exposure to harm from COVID, and sideline the voices of teachers who have been sounding the alarm about the dangerous state of their facilities for years.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/31/2022
Blaming Teachers for COVID-Related Education Problems Misses the Big Picture
by Adam Laats
Too much of what plagues schools today is far beyond the control of teachers, but blaming them is easier for politicians than fixing inequality and underinvestment.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
1/11/2022
Teachers’ Unions Are Making Totally Reasonable Pandemic Health and Safety Demands
by Josh Mound
Chicago's teachers, like those elsewhere, have led the way in making demands for students to return to safe classrooms. The media are scapegoating them for the failures of politicians to meet or even consider those demands, while advancing a privatization agenda.
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SOURCE: The Nation
1/11/2022
Healthy Democracies Don't Scapegoat Their Teachers
"The failure to confront authoritarianism and the failure to defend public schools and educators from Covid is the same failure. When an institution is a cornerstone of democracy, you fight for it, you fund it, and you respect it."
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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: The New Yorker
2/9/2021
What’s at Stake in the Fight Over Reopening Schools
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
In cities like Chicago, parents anxious to return children to school have blamed teachers' unions. The historian and New Yorker columnist argues that some proponents of reopening are using racial equity arguments in bad faith while ignoring the gross racial inequalities that characterized schooling-as-usual before the pandemic and the work of teachers' unions to fight it.
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SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
12/14/2020
Civil Rights Unionism and Democracy for Teachers
by Jesse Chanin
Nat LaCour connected civil rights unionism to teachers’ struggle to build union democracy. A remembrance and evaluation.
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SOURCE: Politics and Prose Bookstore
8/31/2020
Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz – Blaming Teachers: Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History 6:00 PM Monday, August 31
Education historian Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz discusses the ways that public policy undermines teachers' authority and blames them for systemic problems with education, sponsored by Politics and Prose bookstores. Live at 6:00 PM Monday, August 31.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
8/13/2020
’Back To School’ Amid a Pandemic and Uprisings Gives Teachers a Unique Opportunity
by Kabria Baumgartner
The history of Black women educators shows a path for teachers to directly engage the social conflicts and inequalities that affect their students lives.
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2/23/20
Classroom Activity Kit: The History of Climate Change
by Mark Deltor and Sam Mastrianni
What do farmers from the 1950s, anti-smoking campaigns and climate change have in common? Download this Classroom Activity Kit to find out.
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2/23/20
Classroom Activity Kit: The History of U.S. Immigration
by Paige Morse, Julia Brown, and Andrew Fletcher
This Classroom Activity Kit teaches students about U.S. immigration history while also highlighting their personal histories.
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2/23/20
Classroom Activity Kit: The History of Sports Activism
by Jonathan Montano, Laura Gonzalez, and Lila Someshwar
Discussing athletes from Jackie Robinson to Colin Kaepernick, this Activity Kit teaches students about the history of political activism in sports.
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2/23/20
Classroom Activity Kit: The History of Private Prisons in the U.S.
by Isabella Delpino, Jared Levinson and Matthew Crawford
Download this Classroom Activity Kit to teach students about the history of the American prison system.
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2/23/20
Classroom Activity Kit: The History of Climate Change and Activism
by Chelsea Connolly, Elisabeth Pearson and Samantha Benthien
Download this Classroom Activity Kit to help students understand climate change activism in its historical context.
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2/23/20
HNN Introduces Classroom Activity Kits
by Chelsea Connolly and Kyla Sommers
Combining the fields of journalism and history, these activity kits provide educators with complete downloadable lesson plans.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/11/19
How teachers advocating for their students could backfire
by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz
It reinforces the view of teachers as self-sacrificing servants instead of highly trained professionals.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/15/19
Students and Parents Push for Better Textbooks to Help Fight Hate and Stereotypes
Students, parents and educators are calling for material that reflects a diversity of experiences, saying it’s a matter of providing a fuller telling of history.
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4/14/19
Teacher Pay, Presidential Politics, and New York’s Modest Proposal of 1818
by Adam Laats
When underpaid teachers threaten to walk away, school leaders have always considered desperate plans to fix desperate financial problems.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/14/19
Teacher strikes can’t fix the core problems with our schools
by Diana D'Amico
The forces that once led to the growth of suburban schools have led to the decay of their urban counterparts.
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SOURCE: Time
1/10/19
The History of American Teacher Strikes—And Where Los Angeles Fits In
There were more than 1,000 such strikes involving more than 823,000 teachers from July 1960 to June 1974.
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