Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning

Researchers are learning that handwriting engages the brain in ways typing can't match, raising questions about the costs of ditching this age-old practice, especially for kids
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Stop using Martin L. King to chastise student protests against genocide if you don’t know civil rights history. He believed in disrupting business as usual & was pilloried then by similar folks now praising him. By ⁦⁦⁦Jeanne Theoharis⁩ time.com/6975559/mlk-ga…

Some news! Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

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More than 400 Harvard students and Cambridge residents marched to the private residence of interim Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 during a pro-Palestine rally Monday evening.

Michelle Amponsah, Joyce Kim, and @jo_lemann report.

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'A special citation for the late writer and critic Greg Tate, whose language – cribbed from literature, academia, popular culture and hip-hop – was as influential as the content of his ideas. His aesthetic, innovations and intellectual originality, particularly in his…

Glad to be a part of this segment!

What kinda “nigga” basically opens his song by saying “you dare me to say the N-word? Well here it goes….NIGGA!”

What kinda “nigga” say “always rappin like you bout to get the slaves freed” and think it’s a gotcha bar when speaking to a Black man?

What kinda “nigga” does a…

Grateful for this review of my new book The Blue Period in The Boston Globe
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Rachel Elizabeth Williams, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, received a nationally-competitive Pipeline Grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for her research on charter school growth in Memphis, TN.
Learn more below!
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Same. Cal from 2006-2016. Very moved by this video and inspired by the memories, and history, it brings to mind.

Mayor Michelle Wu canceled an event at Harvard after nine student organizations withdrew from sponsoring the talk over her decision to send police to end a pro-Palestine encampment at Emerson College.

Madeleine A. Hung and @azusalippit report.

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This quote. Evergreen.

Shame shame shame Princeton University. Two of our students arrested, evicted, and permanently barred from campus. There is nothing “inherently unsafe” about encampments. The university MAKES them unsafe by criminalizing tents and sending campus police to intimidate protestors.

More than a thousand students, faculty, and staff walked out of class today at the U of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus in solidarity with the 9 arrested this morning—7 were students—for trying to setup an anti-genocide encampment. Beautiful. #FreePalestine

I'm excited to announce the publication of my article, ''A New Era of Black Thought': Revisiting Gil Scott-Heron and the HBCU Protest Novel,' in the latest issue of The Vermont Connection!
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Dorothy Berry is one of THE smartest commentators on archives today. Grateful for this generous review—and as always, Dorothy Berry’s writing is a joy. If she makes you want to read Scattered and Fugitive Things, CUP20 for 20% off Columbia Univ Press cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered…

Last night, @JarvisRGivens delved into the rich history of Black education in the U.S., shared stories of 'fugitive pedagogy' in the Jim Crow era, and introduced his groundbreaking 'Black Teacher Archive.' Did you miss his illuminating talk? Watch it here: lnkd.in/gTDsfekF

Packed house tonight for @JarvisRGivens' talk on the history of Black education in the United States, the practice of 'fugitive pedagogy' by Black educators, and his Black Teacher Archive project, which is digitizing contributions by Black educators—spanning from 1907 to 1973.