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Helen Blank, a historic leader in childhood advocacy, shares her story “A lot of what I did is serendipitous,” Helen Blank said last month on The 9:30 Call, telling the story of her career. A friend came to dinner and talked her into earning a master’s degree in urban planning. She spent time working for anti-hunger groups. Another friend pushed her to go back to work […]
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David Berliner: The U.S. Has Many Wonderful Teachers, and Few Who Are “Bad” Teachers Good and Bad Teachers: So Many More of the Former, So Many Fewer of the Latter David C. Berliner Arizona State University A refereed journal article by colleagues1reported on a survey of adults, asking for their beliefs about “good teachers.” The respondents defined good teachers as those who “knew me, cared about me, and wanted me to do well; created interesting activities for us to do; praised me and other students for good […]
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Texas: Book Banning Gets Nuttier, Along with Efforts to Ban DEI in Higher Education When PEN America released its latest national report on book banning, the state with the worst record was Florida. If you hear any bragging about test scores in Florida, think twice. Educated people typically don’t fear books; uneducated people do. Chris Tomlinson, columnist for The Houston Chronicle, reports that book banning is getting more absurd […]
https://dianeravitch.net/2024/....04/23/texas-book-ban

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John Thompson: Reading a Classic About the Tulsa Race Massacre John Thompson, historian and retired teacher in Oklahoma, writes here about a book that is important in Oklahoma history and American history. He writes: When I first read Victor Luckerson’s Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street, I was stunned by his beautiful prose. Watching Luckerson on CSPAN […]
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Florida: Politician Loses Appeal to Make Her Home Tax-Exempt This is what may be the finest example of chutzpah thus far in the year 2024. The story was written by my favorite education journalists in Florida, Leslie Postal and Annie Martin. They specialize in exposing scams. A state legislator sought permission to make her home tax-exempt, claiming it was part of Central Christian University, […]
https://dianeravitch.net/2024/....04/23/florida-politi

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