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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

Edsurge

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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Reading Role Models: Why They Matter for Boys

Fractus Learning

But I don’t see my advocacy as a zero-sum game. I see it as imperative for both genders to thrive, not just survive, in the global, knowledge-based, information/technology-driven world they’ll live and work in together as adults. People often question me on why I’m not advocating for girls and empowering them instead.

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Becoming an Anti-Racist Childhood Educator and Social Warrior

edWeb.net

Teachers committed to true anti-racist instruction and learning must ask themselves: What are the knowledge bases of early childhood education that reproduce racial inequalities? At the heart of anti-racist early childhood education, she emphasized, is institutional critique combined with advocacy and transformation.

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