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Why Isn’t Juneteenth Taught in Schools?

June 19, 2020

Daisia Farley

I went to a great high school and took three years of social studies, which included United States history. Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies, in New York, is a public magnet school that has a performance-based assessment component for its courses, which means you have to demonstrate that you can…

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Quick Summary: In today’s world, change is the new norm. But young people are not being equipped with the tools to thrive in a society of disruption and innovation. Our education system and much of our incentive structures for raising children are built around...