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"Transform how you teach Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" with this multimedia collection.   Our study guide and lesson plans will help you use Mockingbird's setting as a springboard for engaging students in issues of justice, gender, and race. This collection also offers African American voices, which are absent from Mockingbird's narration, so you can deepen student perspectives of this classic novel."

"All over the country, local school board members, who are typically volunteers or serve for small stipends, have indeed been placed on the front line of a national culture war. Protestors are mobilizing against masks, vaccines, LGBTQ rights, removing police from schools, and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. In early October, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland directed the FBI to meet with state and local authorities to create "strategies for addressing threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff." BACK TO SCHOOL: LIVE UPDATES She Joined The School Board To Serve Her Community. Now She's In The Crossfire NPR spoke to school board members in California, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania, in addition to Watkins and a fellow board member in Georgia. All of them told similar stories: of being yelled at in meetings that are sometimes brought to a halt entirely; receiving threatening letters; being followed to their cars; and being photographed or filmed."

Great overview of the current education landscape

"Anson Smith crossed the finish line of the Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon on Sunday 10 minutes ahead of his goal. He attributed the 1-hour, 40-minute performance to the 16-year-old waiting on the other side. "It's easy to run when you're thinking about people who can't do it," said Smith, the boys' soccer coach at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, N.J. Smith, 36, was among more than 22,000 people who arose at dawn to run the venerable 13.1-mile course through Center City. Many did it for the love of running. Others, like Smith, ran for a cause. Smith ran to raise money for Miguel Coelho, one of his soccer players, who was diagnosed with leukemia in May."

John Tierney reveals some interesting--albeit grim--aspects of the contemporary college world. He then makes some connections to what is revealed of high school student life in the film Race to the Top to that of college world.

"The 10 young Black writers in this project - talented poets from Oakland, Houston, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Nashville, New Orleans and Los Angeles - are using the tools at their disposal, whatever they have. There's the "Black vernacular" of Akilah Toney's poem, the unshakable end rhymes of Alora Young, the expansive lines of Nyarae Francis's sestina and the stunning yet harrowing fragments of Samuel Getachew's "justice for -." These fledgling June Jordans and Robert Haydens, who are youth poets laureate and organizers and rappers, examine and fight back against an America that threatens to swallow them. They redefine themselves ("I wish I understood what it is like to be a black girl / To know myself like a dictionary definition," begins Madison Petaway in her poem) and cite their own wisdom and traditions, even building their own gods ("I've come to learn that my Grandmother's God is not my own," Jacoby Collins writes)."