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What role should a teacher play in choosing books kids read?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I will structure this post similarly to the aforementioned article with suggestions for action and research embedded for each group so that you could, feasibly, only read the section referring to you and be enabled to face your context. Is 8th grade too young to look at police brutality? They sometimes only focus on social media or TV.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

Samuels/The Hechinger Report Virginia’s rewrite of its history curriculum started off with heat and discord. The standards refer to the “indelible stain” of slavery and require that in fourth grade students be taught that slavery was the cause of the Civil War, along with secondary factors. Credit: Christina A.