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Tag Archives: Challenging Curriculum

Multilingual Education as a Radical Venture

September 26, 2011by Benji Hart Leave a comment

Working in the elementary school at which I am currently stationed has caused me to think a great deal about the politics of language in education. In the sixth grade […]

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Economic Justice, Education, Liberalism

Why College Is Not the Goal of a Progressive Education

September 23, 2011by Benji Hart 3 Comments

As an oppressed student, it was ingrained in me from early on in my educational career that attending college was not only the key to justice, but a revolutionary act. […]

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Economic Justice, Education

Anarchy and Education: Structuring an Insurgent Learning Community

September 15, 2011by Benji Hart 3 Comments

I held lots of romantic ideas about what a classroom community could and should look like before I actually started working with kids. I imagined a learning space organized, run […]

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Education, Ethnic Studies

Getting Off Task: The Need for Flexibility and Free Time in the Classroom

September 12, 2011by Benji Hart 7 Comments

“Being flexible with your curriculum is not about sending the message to students that the curriculum is unimportant. It is about sending the message that it is important in a […]

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Education

Being a Student Ally: Teachers as Necessary Voices of Protest

September 7, 2011by Benji Hart 4 Comments

A few months ago I was teaching a somewhat uninspiring writing curriculum to a group of sixth graders as part of teacher training program. As young educators, participants in the […]

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Education

Precious Knowledge: Knowing Your History Is a Radical Act

September 2, 2011by Benji Hart Leave a comment

The remarkable film Precious Knowledge recounts the stories of the students and teachers who comprise the Raza Studies Program, a series of courses which focus on Mexican and Chicano history, […]

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Education, Ethnic Studies, The Arts

Why ‘Bad’ Kids Make Better Students

August 31, 2011by Benji Hart 4 Comments

Having become more interested in pursuing education as a career while I was in college, I applied to work for an urban summer teaching initiative. This particular program recruited high […]

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Economic Justice, Education

How Did We Learn to Hate the Hood?

August 29, 2011by Benji Hart 4 Comments

A friend of mine and I recently co-led a poetry workshop with a group of 7th, 8th and 9th graders, all of whom qualified for the workshop because of coming […]

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Economic Justice, Education
Coming out can make the classroom into a space of radical imagination, rather than of supporting the status quo.

Coming Out in the Classroom

August 23, 2011by Benji Hart Leave a comment

Last semester I student-taught in a third grade classroom at a small, public elementary school near my university in CT. Though the reinforcement of racial redistricting codes had recently shaken […]

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Education, Queer Power

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