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Abolitionist Teaching Network supports education activists

Abolitionist Teaching Network supports education activists

by Quinn Clark | Mar 18, 2022 | Education

Angela Harris is a first-grade teacher at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, a public Black immersion school in Milwaukee, and one of the first six activists in residence for the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN). Harris said her activism, which has...
We the People: Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was an oratory study, but it also relays important messages for the next generation

We the People: Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was an oratory study, but it also relays important messages for the next generation

by Quinn Clark | Feb 17, 2022 | Education

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Name one. When Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his...
State museum deems majority of its Native American artifacts ‘culturally unidentifiable’

State museum deems majority of its Native American artifacts ‘culturally unidentifiable’

by Ariel Gans | Feb 16, 2022 | Education, Featured

More than 30 years after Congress passed a law requiring museums to return all things removed from Native American graves to descendants of those buried, the New York State Museum has returned only 29 percent of its collection of Native American ancestors and funerary...
How a Queer Christian student helped defeat a proposed book ban

How a Queer Christian student helped defeat a proposed book ban

by Quinn Clark | Feb 11, 2022 | Education, Featured

Three months ago, Josiah Kemp, a transgender teenager living in Hunterdon County, N.J., made the decision to leave his home church. Kemp didn’t leave Christianity, he said, but he needed to stop attending services at a church that was openly opposed to LGBTQ...
Lack of action on student debt could impact Schumer, other Democrats

Lack of action on student debt could impact Schumer, other Democrats

by Emily Anderson Stern | Feb 3, 2022 | Education, Featured

WASHINGTON — In the two-and-a-half decades since he earned his master’s degree in counseling from the University at Albany, Matthew Flowers Jr. has been chipping away at his student loan debt. The Troy resident had to delay buying a house until last year...
Low-income schools more vulnerable to disasters, government report says

Low-income schools more vulnerable to disasters, government report says

by Emily Anderson Stern | Jan 28, 2022 | Education, Featured

WASHINGTON — More than three years after Hurricane Michael hit Florida, the rural Calhoun County School District in the Panhandle, whose students mostly come from low-income households, still hasn’t recovered. Children who had attended Blountstown...
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