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Review: Guthrie’s entertaining ‘Art’ punches hard into men’s feelings
Thursday, January 4th, 2024
via Star Tribune (Minnesota)Yasmina Reza's 1994 play gets a taut and timely staging in Minneapolis.
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For Harvard’s First Black President, Race Became the Unavoidable Issue
Thursday, January 4th, 2024
via The New York Times (New York)Claudine Gay celebrated her history making appointment. But after she resigned, she spoke very differently about her experience.
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Chris Doyle: A discomforting anniversary and teaching the Capitol riot in 2024
Thursday, January 4th, 2024
via Hartford Courant (Connecticut)Students deserve to be shown how recent history contributes to ongoing events
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Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to ‘Beat’ Tetris
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
via The New York Times (Ohio)Willis Gibson, a competitive Tetris player prodigy from Oklahoma, advanced so far in the original Nintendo version of the game that it froze. 'I can't feel my fingers,' he said afterward.
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Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimony
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
via Winston-Salem Journal (North Carolina)Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on…
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A ‘pocket of hope’: This California school district made a difference on Black students’ scores
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
via CalMatters (California)Teacher pay, creative writing, tutoring and attendance monitors helped a California school district improve test scores for Black students.
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Utah diversity, equity, inclusion: Gov. Spencer Cox’s DEI statements
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
via The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)Gov. Spencer Cox has championed his diversity and equity efforts in the past, but has more recently asserted such initiatives foster divisiveness instead of inclusivity.
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What changed after a California school district banned teaching critical race theory?
Monday, January 1st, 2024
via Delaware Public Media (Delaware)More than a year after a Southern California school district banned the teaching of critical race theory, some Temecula Valley Unified students say it's resulted in more racism.
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Haley mixes up name of Iowa’s Caitlin Clark during Coralville stop
Sunday, December 31st, 2023
via Quad-City Times (Iowa)GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley also attended an Iowa women's basketball game on Saturday.
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The 24 figures we’ll be watching in 2024
Sunday, December 31st, 2023
via Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia)Who else should be on the list? Join the conversation and tell us at go.richmond.com/24in24.
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Haley flubs name of Iowa Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark
Saturday, December 30th, 2023
via The Gazette (Iowa)In campaign stop, she touts foreign policy experience and economic plan.
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Led by Trump, GOP candidates take polarizing stances on race and history
Saturday, December 30th, 2023
via The Washington Post (South Carolina)The Republican Party's three leading presidential candidates are speaking about history and race in polarizing and provocative ways that sometimes diverge from or distort the facts, some political strategists, experts and civil rights leaders said.
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How to recycle your tech properly
Saturday, December 30th, 2023
via KTAR News (Arizona)Many households are replacing older tech with the latest and greatest, leading to important questions of data privacy and proper disposal.
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Clarice Schillinger, former Pa. GOP candidate and school activist, accused of punching teen at house party
Friday, December 29th, 2023
via FOX 29 News Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)A former Pennsylvania GOP candidate who touted family values while running for Lieutenant Governor is accused of punching a teenager at a booze-filled birthday party for her 17-year-old daughter.
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Francis Howell school board plans to reinstate Black History, Black Literature courses after blowback
Friday, December 29th, 2023
via St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)The move to drop the elective courses garnered national media attention and pushback from students, parents and groups including the NAACP.
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Missouri school board to reinstate Black history classes with new curriculum
Thursday, December 28th, 2023
via The Associated Press (Missouri)Students at a suburban St. Louis school district can take elective Black history courses in a reversal of the conservative-led school boards' decision just last week to cancel the classes.
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No ‘Texit’ question, but Texas GOP voters to be asked about border, vouchers, foreign wars
Thursday, December 28th, 2023
via Dallas Morning News (Texas)State GOP officials, while rejecting bids to put Texas secession to a vote, announced Thursday a set of rock-ribbed conservative ballot propositions for the...
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Black teachers are leaving. How can Maryland schools get them to stay?
Thursday, December 28th, 2023
via The Baltimore Banner (Maryland)Research has shown Black students are more likely to graduate and go to college if they have a Black teacher, yet thousands don't have one at all.
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New anti-DEI law for public Texas colleges goes into effect in 2024: What to know
Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
via KPRC (Texas)A new law dismantling the state's diversity, equity and inclusion offices at publicly-funded universities and colleges will go into effect in 2024.
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