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The Tennessee Senate’s recent partisan vote to advance legislation allowing educators to carry concealed firearms has ignited a firestorm of controversy. This decision comes on the heels of a harrowing incident at Nashville’s Covenant School, where a community was shattered by gun violence. The proposed bill has galvanized gun control advocates, educators, and families, catalyzing […]
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Tennessee’s bold move: Arming educators as a countermeasure to rising school shootings
April 13th, 2024 
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No Comments »Educators teaching Palestine face academic repression at the University of California
December 14th, 2023 Awake Goy It has become clear since October 7 that U.S. college campuses have a significant role to play in the struggle for a free Palestine. University students continue to demonstrate in campus quads and administration buildings while educators teach about the occupation of Palestine and the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people in their classrooms. Universities across […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: academic, california, educators, Palestine, repression, teaching, university No Comments »Richmond Educators Are First In Virginia To Win Bargaining Rights
February 26th, 2022 Awake Goy Above Photo: Richmond is the first school district in Virginia to reinstate collective bargaining rights, after the legislature in 2020 lifted the state’s 43-year prohibition on collective bargaining for local government workers. Vernon Snow. Teachers and other public school employees in Richmond, Virginia, won a major victory in December when the city’s school board, in […]
Swedish Educators Recommend Students Learn The ‘Controversial’ Facts That Cause So Many People To Doubt The Holocaust™
October 27th, 2021 Awake Goy (JTA) Sweden’s National Agency for Education have recommended that teachers should make students try to prove that the Holocaust never happened, as part of a push to help them better understand conspiracy theories: The recommendation came in a recently published handbook for high school teachers that the government’s institution in charge of scholastic issues had […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: controversial, educators, facts, learn, recommend, students, swedish No Comments »NYC Educators File Lawsuit Against Mayor Bill de Blasio Over Forced Vaccination Policy
September 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy NYC Educators File Lawsuit Against Mayor Bill de Blasio Over Forced Vaccination Policy Attorney Sujata Gibson Files in Federal Court — KANE vs DE BLASIOby NY Teachers for ChoiceSeptember 21, 2021 Teachers, educators and administrators filed a federal lawsuit today challenging Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City over the forced COVID vaccination policy set to […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: against, blasio, educators, forced, lawsuit, mayor, Vaccination No Comments »Lessons From The Nation’s Black Male Educators
June 29th, 2021 Awake Goy Lessons From The Nation’s Black Male Educators To The Other 98%. What the next generation of Black male educators is learning from Black men in education today. The place of Black men in higher education, both as students and as educators, has always been precarious—even before the pandemic. A U.S. Department of Education report found […]
‘Facing History,’ a global resource for educators, leaves out Palestine
June 10th, 2021 Awake Goy “Facing History and Ourselves“, an educational and professional development organization that uses the “lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate,” is an incredibly rich resource for educators as long as they’re not looking for teaching materials on Palestine, and are not questioning Zionism. The global non-profit […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: educators, facing, global, history, leaves, Palestine, resource No Comments »‘Ancestors of Palestinian Liberation’ — a resource for educators and organizers as Nakba Day approaches
May 4th, 2021 Awake Goy With Nakba day quickly approaching on May 15, Palestine Advocacy Project has collaborated with Anemoia Projects to present Ancestors of Palestinian Liberation: a multi-faceted, visual, biographical, and educational tool to incorporate Palestinian histories and realities into our everyday spaces. “This project came from a desire to bring attention to some of the incredible contributions of […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ancestors, educators, liberation, nakba, organizers, palestinian, resource No Comments »Gandel Philanthropy and Victorian Government fund Holocaust education for educators
February 24th, 2021 Awake Goy Browse > Home / News / Gandel Philanthropy and Victorian Government fund Holocaust education for educators February 24, 2021 by J-Wire News Service Read on for article More Victorian government secondary schools will get the support they need to strengthen their teaching about the Holocaust and help stamp out anti-Semitism, thanks to an expanded partnership […]
Posted in News Tags: education, educators, gandel, government, Holocaust, philanthropy, victorian No Comments »To counter students’ lockdown atrophy, Israeli educators test the limits of COVID restrictions
February 10th, 2021 Awake Goy News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Views: 0
Posted in Jewish News Tags: atrophy, counter, educators, israeli, limits, lockdown, students No Comments »Parents Stand With Educators On Safety Before Reopening Schools
August 5th, 2020 Awake Goy 
By Brenda Álvarez, NEA Today. August 5, 2020 Above photo: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer. Many parents nationwide are questioning whether it’s safe to send their kids back to a brick and mortar school this fall. With varied life circumstances, and different districts and schools choosing different options, it’s a daunting decision to make. For Florida’s Raquel Pantoja […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: before, educators, parents, reopening, safety, Schools, stand No Comments »Ethnic Studies In Seattle: A Look Inside The Classrooms Of Antiracist Educators
May 24th, 2018 Awake Goy Ethnic Studies: A Movement Toward Equity In Jesse Hagopian’s multigrade classroom at Garfield High School, students are learning about U.S. History as time travelers. They close their eyes at the sound of a DeLorean playing over the projector and engines whirring, they are transported to 1964. At once, they are immersed in the experiences of […]
Posted in World News Tags: antiracist, classrooms, educators, ethnic, inside, Seattle, studies No Comments »Making People’s History In Arizona: Educators Rise Up
May 4th, 2018 Awake Goy Making People’s History In Arizona: Educators Rise Up Above Photo: From Rethinkingschoolsblog.com My house has recently become muddled with protest signs, event flyers, red T-shirts, and simply, chaos. How it came to this point resides in the story of how I decided to volunteer to be a liaison for the #RedForEd grassroots movement in Arizona. […]
Educators need to denounce the smear tactics of Canary Mission
February 26th, 2018 Awake Goy As the movement for Palestinian rights has grown and broadened worldwide, so too have efforts in the U.S. to silence any criticism of Israeli policies; the anonymously staffed and funded Canary Mission website is one of the most disturbing examples of such censoring efforts. Dedicated to harassing those critical of Israeli policies towards Palestinians, the […]
Seattle Educators Ready For DeVos
October 14th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Michael Vadon/ Flickr Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us breakthrough. Seattle Teacher: Dear Betsy DeVos, You’re Not Welcome Here It starts like this: Dear Betsy DeVos, My name is Jesse Hagopian and I teach ethnic studies at […]
Lawyers of two detained Turkish educators arrested ahead of first hearing
September 13th, 2017 Awake Goy nsnbc : All seventeen lawyers, of two imprisoned and hunger-striking educators accused of being members of a terrorist organization, have been detained two days […]
Posted in World News Tags: ahead, arrested, detained, educators, first, lawyers, turkish No Comments »Conference Teaches K-12 Educators how to Combat ‘Whiteness in Schools’
July 30th, 2017 Awake Goy A recent conference hosted by an Ivy League university focused on integration and inclusion in K-12 education and included workshops on how educators should face White privilege in their classrooms, challenge microaggressions and address “Eurocentric pedagogical approaches.” The “Reimagining Education Summer Institute” conference, organized by Columbia University’s Teachers College, was held in mid-July and concentrated […]
‘A nation with a special purpose’– Rubio gives 2-1/2 minutes to Israel in stump speech
March 14th, 2016 Awake Goy Senator Marco Rubio is the favorite of Republican Israel-supporters in the GOP race; and what follows are the two-and-a-half minutes in his Florida stump speech devoted to Israel. He gave this speech at The Villages, Florida, yesterday. We need to be an ally again to our allies. Look what’s happened with Israel. OK, look, first […]
Posted in World News Tags: al, award, corruption, educators, global, hanan, hroubs, israeli, occupation, pa, palestinian, teacher, victory No Comments »Black Bloc: The Activist’s Militia
November 23rd, 2015 Awake Goy Print Friendly Above photo: Black bloc at September 24 protest in DC. By Colin Ashe. Wikimedia. Seattle, Washington (TFC) – A Black Bloc is not a group or organization; in fact, it is a tactic that has greatly evolved since its beginnings in Germany, 1980. Many view the participants as hooligans and violent Anarchists. Some are there only to […]
