teaching
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Excuse Me?! Video Shows Teachers Laughing While Toddler Gets Jumped By Classmates
The disturbing video captured a 4-year-old being punched by his peers. Now, the teachers are in BIG trouble.
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This Black Teacher Says She Runs Her Classroom Like a Corporation, But is She Helping or Hurting Her Students?
“I treat my classroom like it’s an office building,” says Virginia high school teacher Leslie Robinson.
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If You Take One Lesson From Juneteenth, Let It Be This One
Political strategist Antjuan Seawright draws a parallel between Juneteenth 1865 and the fight for freedom today.
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N-Word Rant Gets Both a Student and a Teacher in Trouble
A Geometry teacher was recorded saying the n-word by a 15-year-old student, leading to her three-day suspension.
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Florida To Allow Military Veterans Teach In Schools With No Degree
While the move is set to address Florida’s teaching shortage, some think it will lower the bar for educators
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Illinois Lawmaker and Community Leaders Are Working to Suspend Current History Curriculum That 'Leads to White Privilege and a Racist Society'
A group of community leaders in Illinois are working with a state lawmaker to abolish the current history curriculum in their local school districts because they believe it leads to “white privilege and a racist society.” CNN reports that state Rep. LaShawn K. Ford, and several community leaders in Evanston, Ill., said the current history…
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Middle School Teachers Are Saints
When I was younger, say 7 or 8 years old, I wanted to be an astronaut/pediatric neurosurgeon/inventor/NBA player. Though my life has been successful, it’s safe to say I’ve stopped just short of being the most awesome multi-hyphenate careerist of all time. By the time I hit my teen years, I wanted to be some…
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I Once Taught a College-Level Statistics Class Using Nothing but Drug References; It Was the Most Effective, Questionable Thing I’ve Done (at Least That Day)
I used to work in a summer program at a prominent university in the Washington, D.C.-area intended to get black students into the field of public policy and foreign affairs. For something like seven straight summers, I was either a resident assistant (first two years) or a teacher’s assistant (economics, statistics, policy analysis; all seven…
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Why I’m Willing to Represent the Entire Black Community to the Not Black Community
You know what I don’t mind? Aside from not minding if you stroke me up, (I don’t mind) I do not mind being the voice of Black America. Not on radio or television, I mean in the office and to white people anywhere. If I work at a company and there aren’t a lot of…