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Special education: How students and their teachers are shortchanged
Jia Lee, NYC special education teacher and union activist, talks about the unfairness of the Fair Funding Formula, the school-to-prison pipeline, and the tendency...
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Reframing masculinity: Stopping violence against women and girls
Quentin Walcott (“Q”), a leading NYC and international anti-violence educator and activist, creates programs that help transform men and boys — even batterers —...
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Ed schools as allies to new teachers of color
Dr. Harriet (“Niki”) Fayne of Lehman College School of Education describes strategies to support new teachers and “second stage” teacher-leaders. She discusses ways to...
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Paula Rogovin: Creating a social justice early childhood classroom
We speak with Paula Rogovin, who taught kindergarten and first grade in NYC public schools for 44 years. Paula empowered the youngest students to...
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José Jiménez on gender diversity and sexual identity in elementary schools
We speak with José Luis Jiménez, principal of A.C.E. Academy for Scholars, PS 290, in Queens. A queer educator of color, he came out...
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Kiersten Greene on technology in schools: “Are we doing our homework?”
We speak with Dr. Kiersten Greene, Associate Professor of Literacy Education at SUNY New Paltz, about classroom internet use. Electronic tech’s transformational possibilities can...