Extremists and Contentious Language at School Board Meetings: What You Can Do
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School board meetings across the country becoming venues for very contentious discourse and for extremists themselves to make a presence. Learn more and advice about what you can do.
DoED Decision Will Require Taxpayers to Fund Discrimination
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The U.S. DoEDrecently announced that it will ignore a longstanding requirement of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act limiting federally funded contractsto secular vendors.
Bring Malala, Ferguson, Unaccompanied Minors and Ebola into the Classroom
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Malala. Ferguson. Immigration. Ebola. Voter ID Laws. Climate Change. These are just a few of the topics teachers are regularly and actively bringing into their…
Brown v. Board of Education: 60 Years Later, the Legacy Unfulfilled
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Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education the promise of equal educational opportunities in the United States remains unfulfilled. On May 17, 1954 the U.S. Supreme Cour…
Watershed Federal Guidance on School Discipline Seeks to Dismantle School-to-Prison Pipeline
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Suspensions and expulsions are among the best predictors of which students will drop out of high school. Studies show that a student who has been suspended at least once is more…