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Dodging responsibility for our children: Reducing learning to test scores
We speak with Samuel E. Abrams of Teachers College, Columbia University. The root problems in K12 education — including poverty-related stress and underpaid and...
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Students doing original research: Project-based learning in Ohio
We speak with middle school teachers, Debbie Holecko and Claudia Bestor, and their former student, Rafel Alshakergi, about a student-led research project that led...
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Abolitionist education: Creating liberatory spaces (Part Two)
We continue our conversation with Dr. Edwin Mayorga of Swarthmore College. We discuss the corporatization of schools that reduces students to their test scores. ...
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Abolitionist education: Creating liberatory spaces (Part One)
We speak with Swarthmore’s Dr. Edwin Mayorga, who explains how abolitionist classrooms and schools create “freedom as a place” in contrast to racial capitalism. ...
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BIPOC and undocumented: A trauma-filled intersection
Dr. Christiana Best, who spent thirty years in the New York City child welfare system before becoming a full-time academic, discusses her personal experience...
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The impact of deportation policies on Latinx students’ mental health
Dr. Randy Capps, Director of Research for U.S. Programs at the Migration Policy Institute, surveyed Latinx high school students to see how fear of...