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• Oklahoma Wants to Ban A.P. U.S. History, and There's Nothing You Can Do About It
• Teachers to Game Makers: Slavery’s Not for Fun
• Denver policeman critically hurt in Ferguson protest leaves hospital
• Obama daughter tours colleges alone or with Mom, not Dad
• Find Financial Aid Funding for Apprenticeship Programs
• Philadelphia could get first new charter schools in seven years

Oklahoma Wants to Ban A.P. U.S. History, and There's Nothing You Can Do About It Posted: 18 Feb 2015 02:49 PM PST Teaching high school students about the development of slavery in America—or how debates over civil rights and civil liberties have shaped modern politics—may be out. Educating teenagers about the Ten Commandments and ensuring that they read three speeches by Ronald Reagan may be in. At least, that's what seems to be the case in Oklahoma after a state legislative committee voted to advance a bill that would ax funding for Advanced Placement U.S. History classes. State Rep. Dan Fisher, R-Yukon, who introduced the bill, said that his goal isn't to get rid of the rigorous high school history classes.

Teachers to Game Makers: Slavery’s Not for Fun Posted: 18 Feb 2015 02:39 PM PST It probably seemed like a good idea at the time: Help bring American slavery—one of the most inhumane chapters in our history—to life through responsive, gamified technology, particularly in an era where students are growing up with smartphones, racially integrated schools, and an African American president. Critics say the game, Mission U.S.: Flight to Freedom, sanitizes the brutal institution that was founded on racism and enforced through beating, torture, rape, and murder. Rafranz Davis, an education technology specialist and blogger in the Ft. Worth, Texas, area, is spearheading a social media campaign against the game, which some educators are using as part of their Black History Month lessons. Davis says Mission U.S.: Flight to Freedom dumbs down history, eliminates historical context, doesn't challenge students, and tries to make something "fun," out of an American atrocity.

Denver policeman critically hurt in Ferguson protest leaves hospital Posted: 18 Feb 2015 02:04 PM PST By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A Denver police officer critically injured when he was struck by a motorist last year during a demonstration over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Missouri was released from a hospital on Wednesday. John Adsit, 43, suffered a severed artery, numerous broken bones, and had his spleen removed after the December incident. Adsit and three other bicycle officers were hit by a sport utility vehicle as they conducted traffic and crowd control at the march by hundreds of Denver high school students. Adsit was the only officer seriously injured. The students were protesting the decision by a grand jury not to indict white police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.

Obama daughter tours colleges alone or with Mom, not Dad Posted: 18 Feb 2015 11:33 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is missing out on part of his oldest daughter's life: her college campus tours as she tries to figure out where to study in two years.

Find Financial Aid Funding for Apprenticeship Programs Posted: 18 Feb 2015 07:00 AM PST As higher education and federal financial aid policy continues to mature, discussions are starting to focus around whether the traditional, classroom-focused model is really the most effective and financially viable option for higher education. In addition to newer delivery methods such as online degree programs, old school apprenticeships are starting to come back into vogue among policymakers and students.

Philadelphia could get first new charter schools in seven years Posted: 18 Feb 2015 04:04 AM PST By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia's financially distressed school district, one of the country's biggest battlegrounds over the expansion of charter schools, will learn on Wednesday whether new charter schools will be approved for the first time in seven years. The Philadelphia School Reform Commission, formed in 2001 as part of a state takeover of the city's education system due to financial problems and low test scores, is slated to vote on applications for 39 charter schools. The district already has 86 charter institutions, public schools that operate independently and offer an alternative to schools run by the local school district. Proponents say charters can help get students out of low-performing schools, while critics blame them for worsening the district's finances. The American Federation of Teachers has fought against the nation's expansion of mostly non-unionized charter schools, including in Philadelphia.

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