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Educating for Intellectual Character
by Jason Baehr on January 2, 2013
In his recent book Character Compass, Boston University professor Scott Seider tells the story of three successful Boston-area charter schools each with a strong but relatively unique commitment to character education.
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Who Is Educating the Nation? How the New Media Landscape Is Changing the Middle East
by Linda Herrera on December 11, 2012
Schools once served as focal points of youth citizenship education, but for the wired generation of Internet-savvy youth this is no longer the case. From North America to North Africa, youth are coming of age in an increasingly more plugged-in, digital, and new media era. As a result, young people are learning and exercising citizenship in fundamentally different ways from past generations.
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Justice Kennedy’s Role in Fisher and the Reality of Race
by Liliana M. Garces on November 16, 2012
Those of us in the social science community who have been following the Fisher case know that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, like the 2003 decisions in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, could have a lasting impact on the practices and policies of postsecondary institutions across the country.
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Critical Mess
by Michael J. Feuer on November 5, 2012
One of the rhetorical puzzles that arose during Supreme Court arguments in the Fisher case, in which a white student challenges the race-conscious admissions system at the University of Texas, poses a "catch-22" that could spell the end of affirmative action.
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The Stories a Classroom Tells
by Kurt Wootton on October 30, 2012
Many years ago when I was a student in a teacher certification program, one of our daily requirements was to observe the classroom of a different teacher in the school.
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Too Much Diversity?: The Abigail Fisher Case and Race in College Admissions
by Sylvia Hurtado on October 28, 2012
On October 10th, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case contesting the use of race in college admissions brought by petitioner, Abigail Noel Fisher, against The University of Texas at Austin.
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Education for a Civil Society
by Peter Levine on October 11, 2012
Two myths arise in almost all discussions of civic education: "Kids today don't know any civics," and "We don't teach civics nowadays." As I argue in my chapter in Making Civics Count, civic education does need reform, but we must first get the facts straight.
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Bringing Learning to Life in the Classroom
by Eileen Landay on September 10, 2012
It was the beginning of the spring semester in a large urban high school. The student teacher, having just taken over the class from her cooperating teacher, was attempting a class discussion using a protocol in which students talked to one another rather than through the teacher in the usual wagon wheel format. As her university supervisor, I was seated in a corner, observing, taking notes, and preparing to offer support and feedback.
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Coping with Racial Trauma in Doctoral Study
by Kimberly A. Truong and Samuel D. Museus on September 1, 2012
Let us introduce you to John. He was the first in his family to graduate from college and came from a low-income background. John's advisors, a White couple, recruited him into his graduate program. They promised him four years of full funding and touted the fact that he would be the first Vietnamese American to graduate from their doctoral institution.
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First Things First: Being an Instructional Leader
by Karin Chenoweth and Christina Theokas on July 31, 2012
Not long ago, principals were simply expected to be administrators. No one should think that "simply" implies that administering a school well is in any way simple or easy.
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