
Mary-Liz Shaw
Writer and Editor at Freelance
I love books and food. I write stories for kids and teens. Sometimes they're about books and food.
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1 month ago |
edsurge.com | Mary-Liz Shaw
With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects. Walking students through the unsettling complexities of the past has never been an easy job.
Laws Against Black Literacy in Pre-Civil War South Still Haunt Education, Expert Says - EdSurge News
Feb 20, 2025 |
edsurge.com | Mary-Liz Shaw
The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina. There, thousands of Black children began going to schools built expressly for them, where they learned to read and write after decades of being denied the right of literacy. The Sea Islands’ experiment, as it was known, marked a positive moment in the fraught history of Black education, notes education law expert Derek W.
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Oct 18, 2023 |
readersdigest.ca | Mary-Liz Shaw
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