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KYC History | Know Your Chicago

https://knowyourchicago.org/history

Mary Ward Wolkonsky, Founder. The Know Your Chicago program has introduced its participants to a remarkably broad array of topics and behind-the-scenes tours pertinent to their city. View descriptions of past seasons from 1949 to 2007. Past Tour Resources and Brochures. Choose a year to view more information. Tour 1: Big Ideas on the Prairie: Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park. Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park. Tour 2: Nothing Like A Dame.Women Who Changed Chicago. Shrine of Saint Francis Xavier Mother Cabrini.

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Arne Duncan | Educating the Gates Foundation

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Educating the Gates Foundation. Bill and Melinda Gates – 15 years of failed experiments in public education. CCSS Evangelists Find Common CURE for Special Needs. Thanks to Bill Gates, parents of children with special needs can finally have some peace. A new Common CURE, funded mostly by Gates. Has removed all of the neurological and physical challenges qualifying children for Specially Designed Instruction. While most of Gates’ education experiments have failed. All these years, neurologists have failed ...

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TCU | Center for Public Education

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The TCU Center for Public Education. Hosts events and workshops throughout the year in order to provide learning experiences for children and professional development opportunities for educators throughout the community. For more information, please click here. Scripps Regional Spelling Bee. Thursday, March 2, 2017. Aspiring Educators at TCU. Tuesday, November 1, 2016. Dr Theodorea Berry Visits TCU. Tuesday, September 13, 2016. BLUU Miller Room, 3rd floor. The Black Intellectual Tradition in Education.

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School-to-Prison Pipeline | IDEA

http://www.democraticeducation.org/index.php/issues/school-to-prison_pipeline

Strategically, collaboratively, and sustainably. A Year at Mission Hill. Choice, Charters, and Vouchers. Youth power, voice, and democracy. Teaching Towards Social Justice. A Brief History of IDEA. It is indefensible for any community to plan its jails based on the test scores of kindergartners. The profound racial disparities. That exist in the U.S. criminal justice system are outgrowths of an education system that was intially designed and normed around the values of middle-class white men. Ldquo; Test...

deyproject.org

Take Action | Defending the Early Years

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Defending the Early Years. Working to support and nurture the rights and needs of young children. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Early Childhood Activist Toolkit. Voices from the Field. Open Letter to NAEYC. Recommended Reading and Resources. Category Archives: Take Action. DEY defends play-based learning on PBS NewsHour. July 29, 2016. Are young kids losing the brain-boosting benefits of playtime? Common Core State Standards. Diversity and America’s Generation Gap. July 20, 2016.

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high-stakes standardized tests | Defending the Early Years

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Defending the Early Years. Working to support and nurture the rights and needs of young children. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Early Childhood Activist Toolkit. Voices from the Field. Open Letter to NAEYC. Recommended Reading and Resources. Tag Archives: high-stakes standardized tests. Forward together. Not one step back. July 13, 2016. Our fight for public education is only good if we fight for social justice. 8211; Denisha Jones, SOS, United Opt Out, BATs, DEY, Howard University.

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kindergarten | Defending the Early Years

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Defending the Early Years. Working to support and nurture the rights and needs of young children. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Early Childhood Activist Toolkit. Voices from the Field. Open Letter to NAEYC. Recommended Reading and Resources. DEY defends play-based learning on PBS NewsHour. July 29, 2016. Are young kids losing the brain-boosting benefits of playtime? And for a full transcript of the story go here, to the story on PBS NewsHour’s website. Common Core State Standards.

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geralyndeyproject | Defending the Early Years

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Defending the Early Years. Working to support and nurture the rights and needs of young children. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Early Childhood Activist Toolkit. Voices from the Field. Open Letter to NAEYC. Recommended Reading and Resources. August 4, 2016. The Wages of Child Care. Other countries demonstrate their commitment to young families by generously subsidizing the cost of child care, enabling them to be more productive in the workplace while making sure that their children ...

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August | 2015 | Transformative Spaces

https://transformativespaces.org/2015/08

On creating liberation spaces and lifting up voices for change. August 28, 2015. August 28, 2015. Photo: Sarah Jane Rhee). This post was co-authored by Transformative Spaces author Kelly Hayes and Chicago Public School teacher Katie Osgood. Katie is an education activist and special education teacher in a Chicago Public School on the South Side of Chicago. She has taught at one of the Dyett High School feeder elementary schools. Steals space and resources from an existing neighborhood school like a growi...