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Students as experts: Diversity, equity, and inclusion
We speak with Dr. Judith King-Calnek, United Nations International School’s first Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Since UNIS faculty and students come from...
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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...