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Benchmark Education has created Social Justice resources for three of its ten units. Units 1, 4, and 6 now have a layer of questions that promote collaborative conversations and productive struggle in which student engage critically with the texts already in the unit. Benchmark designed this layer of questions and additional reading suggestions to encourage students to discuss and share experiences using students' personal stories and cultural histories as lenses for analyzing texts. This will help deepen cultural understandings and expand students' world views. The materials will be a resource for sustaining a literacy classroom that allows for various ways...

A video clip shows a grandmother confronting a teacher over the phone about how she told a student she didn’t have a right to an opinion because she was “white” and “blonde.” The footage starts with the grandmother explaining to the teacher that her granddaughter is crying and hasn’t been to school because of this “BLM crap.” She then accuses the teacher of telling her granddaughter that she had no right to express an opinion on the issue because she’s British, white and has blonde hair. After being told there is an audio recording of the exchange, the teacher responds,...

Young Americans are seriously lacking in knowledge of what the July 4 holiday means, a new video released by Campus Reform reveals. But they are fully capable of "bleating about how the country is racist," a report on the video explains. See the man-in-the-street interviews done by Campus Reform: But it was at Summit News that the criticism was leveled. "Young Americans displayed a complete lack of knowledge about the 4th July holiday, instead bleating about how the country is racist," the commentary said. "When asked what the holiday commemorates and other details concerning the Declaration of Independence, most of...

On Thursday, a group called Moms Clean Air Force hosted a rather unique climate change protest. A group of mothers flew in to Washington, D.C., and rented a space near the U.S. Capitol for a "play-in." They created a "sit-in" style protest that allowed their kids to do what they always do — run around and play — but made it seem like a demonstration. "I'm here at the [Play-In for Climate]! Kids can't stay still long enough for a Sit In, so we are having a Play In! Thank you [Clean Air Moms] for calling for 100% clean energy,"...

Ahh, summer vacation -- a time for kids to enjoy slip n' slides, lemonade stands, and...training to become the next generation of Antifa? The folks over at PJ Media flagged this story yesterday. Out of the far-left city of Portland, Oregon comes "Budding Roses Summer Camp." PJ Media's Jeff Reynolds received an online flyer for summer activities for elementary school kids. Part of that notice was the oh-so-kid-friendly offer of sending his children to "free social justice summer camps and year-round workshops for Portland-area youth in 4th-8th grade." A closer look at the group's website reveals that this includes "a...

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a civil rights activist, founder and president of BOND (The Brotherhood Organization for a New Destiny), and author of “Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America,” in an interview with WND, slammed the teaching of white privilege in public schools as destructive to both African-American students and everyone else. Peterson stated: “These classes will make another generation of blacks feel like victims and have them believing that whites owe them. It will also continue to divide the races for years to come because whites and other non-blacks know that it’s not fair to favor one...