The Future is Another Country
The pandemic offers an opportunity to return to collaborative models of instruction and reject regimes of academic surveillance that have long harmed disabled and marginalized students.
The shift to online and distance pandemic learning comes amid a larger push to rethink the boundaries of embodied performance in dance.
A Black student and mother navigates health, political, and economic crises in New York City.
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our September 2020 issue, “New and Old Normals”.
The promise of a better future through education and agitation is a calling that no pandemic, however serious, could interrupt. We must and will persevere.
As we write catalog entries to gather these artifacts into an exhibit and then interpret the connections that will emerge in exhibition guide essays, we hope to raise questions for the audience, to allow those who are disabled to see themselves in the story.
I always share that I am a student who struggled. My kindergarten teacher told my parents that I would never pass the first grade.
My grandmother was right; my high school students needed me. What my grandmother may not have anticipated though was the extent to which I needed my students.
When this goes down in history, we don’t want the story to be that teachers went on a nine-day strike. We want the story to be that this was the beginning of a snowball effect of wonderful things happening for West Virginia. I think that in order for that to happen, we have to “Remember in November.”
White children who were taught history lessons including information about racism experienced by African Americans demonstrated less biased attitudes toward African Americans than their white counterparts who received otherwise identical lessons that omitted those ‘pessimistic, unpatriotic’ teachings.
