This workshop summary from the National Academies of Sciences, Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration Between Health and Education to Improve Population Health, summarizes discussions about the evidence for why educational attainment is crucial for improving population health, some approaches for restructuring the nation’s investments in health and education, and examples of collaborations at the state- and local-level between health and education sectors.
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Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration Between Health and Education to Improve Population Health
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Making the Case for Equality: A Comparison
Written on February 6, 2015READ MOREWhich text makes a more persuasive case for overcoming racism, Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech or the trial closing argument of Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird?
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Oral Language Project Boosts Preschoolers' Vocabulary in St. Louis
Written on January 7, 2015READ MOREThis paper, from NYU's Steinhardt School, describes a Shanker Institute-sponsored pilot project designed to help pre-K teachers in the St. Louis Public Schools increase the oral language development of their students.
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March Logistics Then and Now
Written on October 2, 2014READ MOREWhat would be required to organize a March on Washington today, 50 years after the 1963 March on Washington?
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Strategizing for Freedom
Written on October 2, 2014READ MOREWhose strategy for advancing the African-American freedom struggle – that of Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey or A. Philip Randolph – was most effective?
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Who Was Bayard Rustin?
Written on October 2, 2014READ MOREWhy has Bayard Rustin, the main organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and an important leader in the civil rights movement, been hidden from American history?
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Dream Under Development
Written on October 2, 2014READ MOREIn this lesson, students compare Dr. King’s prepared version of his iconic speech with the one he actually delivered and form opinions about why he may have changed it.
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Leaders for Today
Written on October 2, 2014READ MOREThrough careful research of the contributions and qualities of A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Norman Hill and Rachelle Horowitz, students will determine if the organizers of the march should be considered role models for today.
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Economic Causes of the March on Washington
Written on October 2, 2014READ MOREWhy did the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington demand jobs as well as freedom for African-Americans? Using generalizations drawn from data on unemployment rates in the US, explain why the organizers of the March demanded both jobs and freedom for African-Americans.
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Heart of the Matter
Written on October 2, 2014READ MOREIn this activity, students will differentiate between the popular memory of the march and what actually happened.
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