teachers

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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.