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No, Slavery Was Not “Involuntary Relocation”

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! On Thursday, the news broke that a group of educators in Texas tasked with updating the social studies curriculum for second graders proposed teaching slavery as “involuntary relocation.”  The workgroup says that language aims to address the lack of slavery […]

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Use Your Holiday Break to Get Political

This summer at my first PSEA Summer Leadership Conference (our union getaway in Gettysburg, PA), I heard what was probably the most interesting speech in years. The president of Student PSEA, a college senior about to begin her student-teaching that fall, talked about politics and education. She said that, while in high school leading up […]