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Four Hundred Years a Slave
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Social Justice / Racism. Charles D. Hayes. David A. Love. Four Hundred Years a Slave. Callous Indifference towards Blacks is as American As Apple Pie. Hen I read Daina Ramey Berry’s piece entitled, Slavery in America. It reminded me of one of the first sensitive conversations on race that I had with the man who would later become my husband. Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Sandra Bland. Ten Racially Based Systems that Reinforce Inequality. 1619 – 1865:. Included the legal imprisonment, torture, rape, killing...
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A Rant from Joanne | The Treasure Hunter
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A blog by Joanne Yatvin. Laquo; The Truth About School Years in Some Other Countries. Hope You Have a Happy Holiday Season; Me Too. A Rant from Joanne. On December 22, 2016. Let’s consider for a minute our own school learning. Can we still speak or read the foreign language we studied in high school or college? Can we use algebra to solve complex problems? Do we remember why the War of 1812 was fought and against which foes? What place became our 49th state? Please share this post. Enter your comment here.
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The Religious Reasons My Kids Won’t be Taking the Test | Yinzercation
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Yinzer Nation Education = Yinzercation. Your Cheat Sheet for the Test (In). Brave Teachers Speak Out About Testing →. The Religious Reasons My Kids Won’t be Taking the Test. April 10, 2015. Dear Dr. Lane and Ms. Kinzel-Nath:. The inherent worth and dignity of every person. This is clearly evident when schools use standardized, normed tests, which force all students into a bell curve, guaranteeing that a large proportion of the children will. To get that nice bell shape of test results, with exactly half ...
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Hope You Have a Happy Holiday Season; Me Too | The Treasure Hunter
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A blog by Joanne Yatvin. Laquo; A Rant from Joanne. Without a Librarian a School is Incomplete. Hope You Have a Happy Holiday Season; Me Too. On December 23, 2016. God bless you all and the children you love,. Please share this post. 3 responses to “ Hope You Have a Happy Holiday Season; Me Too. December 23, 2016 at 4:13 pm. Have a lovely holiday vacation with your family! December 23, 2016 at 5:44 pm. Hope you have a great vacation! Sent from my iPhone. December 23, 2016 at 6:13 pm. March 1, 2017. Paule...
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White Bread and Historical Fiction - Christine Sleeter
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Otras Publicaciones, Español. White Bread and Historical Fiction. March 21, 2015. My new novel White Bread. Reports an interesting study of Hanoverian Germans who relocated to western Missouri between 1838 and the 1890s. How did people relate to each other? What did it mean in everyday life to be a German immigrant, or of German descent, living in the U.S. Midwest? How did German-English bilingualism play out in everyday life? Some of the best clues to these questions came from old digitized newspapers.
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July | 2016 | The Treasure Hunter
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A blog by Joanne Yatvin. An unedited version of the article I wrote today was published by mistake. Please see my site for the corrected version. Please share this post. Should All Teachers Be Trained To Teach Dyslexic Students? Well, I went, I saw and even though I did not conquer,* I’m glad I participated. I will explain everything below. To the TSPC, and there is a good chance that they will be accepted and put in place. Those rules would require big additions to teacher preparation programs that ...
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Welcome to The Treasure Hunter, a blog by Joanne Yatvin | The Treasure Hunter
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A blog by Joanne Yatvin. New Ed Week Commentary by Joanne Yatvin. Welcome to The Treasure Hunter, a blog by Joanne Yatvin. On August 15, 2015. Please share this post. 3 responses to “ Welcome to The Treasure Hunter, a blog by Joanne Yatvin. September 15, 2015 at 7:12 pm. Joanne, this is an excellent idea. I love the fact that no matter what is going on, you find away to see the world through solution colored glasses! June 16, 2016 at 1:45 pm. June 16, 2016 at 7:48 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are ...
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The Treasure Hunter | A blog by Joanne Yatvin | Page 2
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A blog by Joanne Yatvin. I sincerely regret the fragment of a blog post that came to you today. I was certainly not ready to send out anything, and hitting the”publish” button was a careless mistake. Tomorrow I will complete the piece. I started and send it out to you. Please share this post. Give Me Your Opinion. Why, you may wonder, am I posting two days in a row. Because something interesting happened today and I want your opinions. Below are two letters. And that I wrote about here. Giving states the...
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June | 2016 | The Treasure Hunter
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A blog by Joanne Yatvin. One Way to Teach Reading. Given that opportunity for freedom, I told my teachers to choose works of fiction and non-fiction that they believed would be right for their students, and we would spend our money allotment on them rather than textbooks. We could always use our old texts for classic poetry and short stories and to find information about famous authors of the past to supplement our chosen materials. Please share this post. Should the School Year Be Shortened? As I read a...
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May | 2016 | The Treasure Hunter
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A blog by Joanne Yatvin. What Great Teaching Looks Like. Today’s post is another gem from the blog “Literacy and NCTE”. I am grateful to Lu Ann Mc Nabb for keeping this feature going with essay after essay by wise teachers who continue to make me believe that there are still good things happening in our public schools. Today’s author is Martha Brockenbrough, the author of several books for young readers who has also worked as a teacher, journalist and editor. And this is what it looks like. It looks like...
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