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December 14, 2022

Education Week, Vol. 42, Issue 17
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Student Well-Being After a Rash of Student Suicides, This School District Stepped Up
Denisa R. Superville, November 23, 2022
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13 min read
Education Briefly Stated: December 14, 2022
December 13, 2022
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8 min read
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Teaching Profession It's a Nasty Cold and Flu Season, But Some Educators Are Reluctant to Take Sick Days
Madeline Will, November 29, 2022
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6 min read
Illustration of a man carrying a jumbled, tangled group of lines shaped like a sphere on his back. Surrounded by virus pathogens
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Teaching Profession What the Research Says Pandemic Anxiety Was Higher for Teachers Than for Health-Care Workers
Sarah D. Sparks, November 15, 2022
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4 min read
A high school football player in a blue helmet with an orange arrow on it tackles a player in a white and green uniform.
A player from the Westlake High School Warriors in Thousand Oaks, Calif., plays football in a helmet with an arrowhead logo. California has banned only certain Native American-themed mascots, but other states have passed broader restrictions.
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Equity & Diversity More States Push Schools to Drop Native American Mascots
Evie Blad, November 28, 2022
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6 min read
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History teachers from across the country discuss innovative ways to teach racial history at a conference hosted earlier this month by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
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Social Studies Is a Comprehensive U.S. History Course Still Possible? Scholars Weigh In
Ileana Najarro, November 16, 2022
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5 min read
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School Climate & Safety Q&A How a Student's Push to End Paddling in Schools Became a Yearslong Civics Lesson
Evie Blad, November 22, 2022
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7 min read
Joe Harmon, a social studies teacher in Pennsylvania, makes satirical TikTok videos poking fun at what happens in his classroom.
Joe Harmon, a social studies teacher in Pennsylvania, makes satirical TikTok videos poking fun at what happens in his classroom.
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Teaching Profession Q&A How This Teacher Builds Relationships, Has Fun, and Makes Money on TikTok
Madeline Will, November 17, 2022
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7 min read
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Recruitment & Retention Foreign Language Teachers Are in Short Supply. How to Find, Attract, and Retain Them
Caitlynn Peetz, November 22, 2022
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4 min read
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Student Achievement COVID Hurt Student Learning: Key Findings From a Year of Research
Sarah Schwartz, November 30, 2022
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5 min read
A pedestal that held a statue of Robert E. Lee stands empty outside a high school named for the Confederate general in Montgomery, Ala. on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Two Montgomery high schools will no longer bear the names of Confederate leaders. The Montgomery County Board of Education has voted for new names for Jefferson Davis High School and Robert E Lee High School, news outlets report.
In this June 2020 photo, a pedestal that held a statue of Robert E. Lee stands empty outside a high school named for the Confederate general in Montgomery, Ala. The Montgomery school board voted this month to pay a hefty fine to the state in order to rename Robert E. Lee High and another school named for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis.
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School & District Management District Pays $50,000 Fine to Scrub Confederate Leaders' Names From Schools
Eesha Pendharkar, November 23, 2022
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4 min read
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School & District Management How to Recruit and Retain School Board Members of Color
Eesha Pendharkar, November 22, 2022
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5 min read
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Social Studies Opinion I'm a State Election Chief. We Need to Do Something About Civics Education
Michael G. Adams, November 22, 2022
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4 min read
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Reading & Literacy Opinion Readers Had a Lot to Say About Lucy Calkins' Essay. Here's a Sampling
December 13, 2022
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2 min read
Education Week opinion letters submissions
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Reading & Literacy Letter to the Editor The Literacy Crisis Has Had Enough Of Lucy Calkins’ ‘Opinions’
December 13, 2022
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1 min read
Education Week opinion letters submissions
Gwen Keraval for Education Week
Reading & Literacy Letter to the Editor Dear Lucy: Phonics-Only Is a Worn-Out Straw Man
December 13, 2022
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1 min read
Education Week opinion letters submissions
Gwen Keraval for Education Week
Reading & Literacy Letter to the Editor Publishing Calkins Was a Mistake
December 13, 2022
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1 min read
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Social Studies Opinion I Am a High School Junior. I’m Not Prepared to Vote
Sidhi Dhanda, November 21, 2022
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3 min read

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