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Your Students Deserve a Diverse Classroom Library. Here’s How to Set It Up.

Diverse Classroom Library: Our classroom libraries are in trouble. Just as more teachers are learning that their libraries need books that reflect their student populations, they also have to fight policies at the district and state levels that ban many of these same books from their libraries. Florida, for example, is banning certain materials in classroom libraries […]

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50 Years and We Still Aren’t Fully Safe in Our Bodies!

50 Years After Roe, We Need Comprehensive Sex Education Matters More Than Ever Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute that criminalized abortion except to save the mother’s life. The decision in Roe v. Wade established […]

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First They Came For “CRT,” Now They’re After “Gender Ideology”

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Christopher Rufo, the man primarily responsible for leading the conservative attack on antiracist education, is now coming for gender equity. On Wednesday, he published Sexual Liberation in Public Schools, the first in a new “investigative” series on gender. It focuses […]

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I’m a Black Woman in Education. I Know Exactly How Ketanji Brown Jackson is Feeling.

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! I remember having my qualifications questioned, dissected and scrutinized. I remember having to pause, take a mental step back and gather my thoughts before responding to an attempt to get me to fulfill the stereotype of an “Angry Black […]