by lindaoppenheim | Mar 22, 2018 | Article, schools
In his article in the Atlantic, William Brennan describes the efforts of speech pathologist Julie Washington to have schools implement code-switching between the dialect of African American English and standard English in teaching reading and in closing the...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 19, 2018 | Podcast
1a radio program host Joshua Johnson and his guests Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Chair of the Teaching Hard History Advisory Board and associate professor of history at Ohio State University, Adam Sanchez, high school history teacher, editor of “Rethinking...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 10, 2018 | Opinion, schools
Noting the complaint that “appears at least once on my students’ course evaluations: ‘too much time on race’ ” every time he teaches American history, Donald Earl Collins adds, “A small but persistent minority of my students seem to want...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 1, 2018 | Documents
As Black History Month begins, the Southern Poverty Law Center has published a report that “shows our schools are failing to teach the hard history of African enslavement.” Read the report and take a quiz testing how much you know about slavery in America...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 18, 2018 | Article
Leticia Skae changed both her approach to teaching and the content of the curriculum to reach and engage her students, steps which resulted in “incredible growth on [the students’] state mandated end-of-course exams.” To read her complete article,...
