Article co-written by one of my colleagues at UHS, Susee Witt, and the image is by a UHS student.
Climate Change: What Educators Can Learn from Students Around the World
Social Issues
Three Miles – This American Life
POWERFUL. Listen.
What happens when of a group of public school students in the Bronx goes to visit an elite private school three miles away.
Don’t Say Nothing | Teaching Tolerance – Diversity, Equity and Justice
“We may be uncomfortable talking about race, but we can no longer afford to be silent. We have chosen a profession, which—like parenting—requires that our comforts come second to those of children.”
Don’t Say Nothing | Teaching Tolerance – Diversity, Equity and Justice
What is Social Justice? | Jonathan Craig
You’ve probably heard the term social justice used on television or around the internet, but what does it mean?
Analysis: How Flint, Ferguson, New Orleans and Baltimore are all connected – Houston Chronicle
Flint, Ferguson, New Orleans and Baltimore — cities now inseparable from the national news stories centered there — became calamities for separate reasons. One was a natural disaster (made worse by human error), another a wholly man-made crisis. The two others began with police violence, but in disparate settings: the newly impoverished suburbs and the long-distraught inner city. Flint and New Orleans were failures of infrastructure, Baltimore and Ferguson a collapse of human relationships.
Analysis: How Flint, Ferguson, New Orleans and Baltimore are all connected – Houston Chronicle
Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society
How harmless choices can make a harmful world:
Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society
The staggering cost of day care when you make only the minimum wage – The Washington Post
Child-care costs would now devour at least 30 percent of a minimum-wage worker’s earnings in every state. Read on here: The staggering cost of day care when you make only the minimum wage – The Washington Post
