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…
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Teaching disability history in schools is ‘long overdue,’ advocates say
…their classroom, according to Cairn. Emerging America developed the disability history curriculum Reform to Equal Rights with funding from the Library of Congress. They spread the word about the free curriculum through…
Teach Disability History: We Can and We Must
…Cairn, Emerging America – lead author Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum Click the following link for more information on “Reform to Equal Rights – Disability History Curriculum….
AG Healey Reminds Public Schools About Laws Requiring Equal Access to Education Regardless of Immigration Status
…the child’s right to a public education. For questions or further assistance, please contact the Civil Rights Division of the Office of the Attorney General at (617) 963-2917 or http://www.mass.gov/ago/civilrights.…
Baker-Polito Administration Signs Criminal Justice Reform Laws, Proposes Additional Reforms
BOSTON – Governor Charlie Baker today signed An Act Implementing the Joint Recommendations of the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Review and An Act Relative to Criminal Justice Reform. After careful review…
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…
Massachusetts Senate plans to craft charter school reform bill as ballot question looms
…to craft a charter reform bill, Senate President Stanley Rosenberg said Wednesday. “Everything will be on the table, even some things maybe that don’t have directly to do with charter…
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 Disability History: How the Civil War Changed Disability and American Government
…K-12 Disability History Curriculum: Reform to Equal Rights. Topics include, Antebellum Reformers, Immigration and Disability, Eugenics, the Disability RIghts Movement, and the Americans with Disabilities Act and other laws. As…
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…