Texas activists: Chavez, Marshall must be taught

Minority activists urged Texas education officials on Thursday to not minimize the importance of civil rights leaders Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall in public schools.

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Deep, fun to read analysis, study questions and best of web links to add to the teacher resources on Shmoop.

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1st period – I finish explaining what pacifism is. To gauge their actual attentiveness, I ask several students what the word means. I don't care Mr. J., pacifists are of the devil. Traitors. Pussies. Scared people.

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If there is one thing students and teachers despise it's clutter. One way teachers create clutter is asking students to print out a current event. Students print out weekly current events, read and summarize it, have it graded and then throw it out.

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This article eloquently shows how ignorance about our own United States has grown to the most silly proportions.

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or, why we still need to network socially even though you're supposed to be able to do everything over the Internet.

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Having done what they could to muck up the state's science curriculum standards, fringe right-wingers on the Texas State Board of Education are now moving to politicize the social studies curriculum for public schools.

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The Obama Kwanzaa Series Day 6 of 7

In the Obama Kwanzaa Series we have been comparing Obama's principles and performance to each of the seven principles of Kwanzaa. The question today is does Obama demonstrate the traditional creativity of the ancestors? Call: Habari Gani Response: _________?

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The Obama Kwanzaa Series Day 5 of 7

Series we have been comparing Obama's principles and performance to each of the seven principles of Kwanzaa. The question today is, will Obama be good for our ethnic group's purpose. Call Habari Gani Response_________?

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A new study confirms that Germans living in the former East Germany feel disadvantaged and resentful of the West. The study also finds higher levels of racism and Islamophobia in the East, while sexism remains stronger in the West.

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We keep worrying about the ignorance of our children when it comes to basic citizenship facts. Here's one of the key reasons: NCLB! Read to find out why....

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