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The Hechinger Report
JULY 29, 2021
If no school employee in Oklahoma can share material that makes any individual “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex,” how will educators teach about the Tulsa massacre or all the other massacres of Black people by whites across the continent over the last 400 years?
The Cornerstone for Teachers
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Now, these conversations are in seemingly every school district in the US and many make it into the news. It would be laughable to say that you won’t face shooting scares, know someone affected by shootings, or see them in the news, and schools are a safer place to have conversations about them. Can it have violence?
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The Cornerstone for Teachers
MAY 4, 2022
It prohibits instruction about sexuality or gender from grades K-3, and any instruction on LGBTQ issues “in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.”. When talking about families or reading books with the class, feature a diverse range of families. Families come in all shapes and sizes.
MindShift
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
And that’s true for both girls and boys, researchers report , having found little sex difference in friendship stability. Adolescent brains become activated in new ways and neurochemicals make tweens obsessed with the other kind of popularity, status. That’s not necessarily bad news for middle school friendship. “In
The Hechinger Report
JULY 20, 2018
The trouble is, such courses could run afoul of Title IX regulations regarding single-sex education. The law prohibits separation of genders in vocational training. That sense of bonding appears to be common among students in single-gender classes, according to Rosemary Salomone, professor of law at St.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 7, 2017
Commission on Civil Rights, affirmative action is defined as any policy or practice that permits the consideration of race, national origin, sex or disability, along with other criteria in order to provide opportunities to individuals who have been historically denied. Read more about education in New Orleans. To paraphrase the U.S.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 8, 2019
This should not be a big deal, bearing in mind that Harvard historically considered race when it came to admitting students, or at least, considered one race — white — and one gender — male. Until 1977, when the school first allowed “sex-blind admissions,” the ratio of men to women at Harvard was 4 to1.
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