Los Angeles’s Heartbroken, Scared Students
Sonali Kohli and Joy Resmovits | Los Angeles Times
“Alonzo Hernandez is a 17-year-old transgender Latino living in South L.A.
When he realized that Donald Trump would become president on Tuesday night, he said, ‘I didn’t want to speak, I didn’t want to say anything.’ But like hundreds of thousands of other students in heavily liberal Los Angeles, he had to go to school and face the facts the next morning.”
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Can Rape Culture Be Curbed Without Being Defined?
Jake New | Inside Higher Ed
“While many colleges do define the term in their educational and prevention efforts, a review by Inside Higher Ed of sexual misconduct policies at more than 60 U.S. colleges and universities found no references to rape culture, and researchers and advocates interviewed for this article said they could not recall any colleges defining rape culture in their policies.”
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Is Trump’s Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed?
Richard D. Kahlenberg and Clifford Janey | The Atlantic
“Public schools are failing at what the nation’s founders saw as education’s most basic purpose: preparing young people to be reflective citizens who would value liberty and democracy and resist the appeals of demagogues. In that sense, the Trump phenomenon should be a Sputnik moment for civics education. Just as Soviet technological advances triggered investment in science education in the 1950s, the 2016 election should spur renewed emphasis on the need for schools to instill in children an appreciation for civic values and not just a skill set for private employment.”