…Easterseals Massachusetts. Still, she rarely saw disabled people like herself in textbooks. The ADA may be relatively more well-known, but other historic events in the disability rights movement not as…
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U.S. Education Secretary Statement on Passing of Disability Rights Leader Judy Heumann
Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona issued the following statement on the passing of Disability Rights Leader Judy Heumann: “On March 4, our country lost a great disability rights leader…
America and World Fascism: From the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond – Teaching Human Rights Today
…to today. Study and discuss the impact of fascist thought and action on human rights through that decade of war, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the post-WWII…
Teaching about Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement Outside the South
…and Civil Rights with their students, but they are almost exclusively Southern stories. In this workshop we will explore how we can bring stories about segregation and civil rights struggles…
Daughter to receive same civil rights award as mother
AMHERST, MA — Alicia Lopez of Amherst went through school knowing that whatever her life path would be, there was one career she would avoid at all costs — teaching….
Co-Teaching Support
Home E Search query for: events and courses fixed star teaching first amendment and our most fundamental rights Building Strong Partnerships for Inclusive Classrooms Co-teaching is a service delivery model…
Gill-Montague school system seeks ways to address civil rights concerns
…several civil rights related incidents in the schools. Sullivan conceded the schools could do better at policing racially related harassment and other civil rights violations, and suggested hiring a second…
David L. Hudson Jr.
…Rights in Education and a First Amendment Fellow for the Freedom Forum Institute. For 17 years, he was an attorney and scholar at the First Amendment Center in Nashville, Tennessee….
Area lawmakers active in crafting landmark education bill
…Act, which was introduced in part by state Rep. Aaron Vega, D-Holyoke. And several local lawmakers were successful in getting amendments adopted as part of the larger bill. “It’s very…
Orientation to Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum
Emerging America is developing Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum with support from a Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources grant and an Expand Massachusetts Stories grant…