They Need To Understand The Harm : How Indian Mascots Affect Native American Students
Quannah Morrison (l) and his father Jamie Morrison (r) stand outside their home in Milton, Mass. on June 2, 2021. Quannah is 17 and plays basketball at Milton High School and club hockey.
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Winchester High School s mascot when Jamie Morrison went there was the Sachems and still was until last year. The associate director of the Urban Scholars Program at UMass Boston, who is Eastern Cherokee, has been trying to get rid of Native American mascots for a long time.
âI witnessed a lot of things at Winchester, he said. A lot of close friends who were white that grew up and they would dress up. Or their siblings would dress upâ as Indians.
Theyâre coming for MCAS again, and maybe itâs about time
Updated May 8, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Teachers union: Crucial time to call for less testing, more learning
Re âTeachers union garbs its latest attack on MCAS in social-justice rhetoric. Donât fall for itâ (Editorial, May 2): Itâs time to listen to Black and brown students, families, and educators who are challenging us to understand the racist roots of standardized testing. The high-stakes MCAS tests backed by The Boston Globe have served to rank and punish under-resourced schools rather than to build their capacity to educate and support our students. An intense focus on MCAS drains the joy out of learning and narrows the curriculum to one-size-fits-all. Low-income students of color pay the highest price when they and their schools are slapped with racist, dehumanizing labels, such as âfailingâ or âchronically underperforming.â
The Massachusetts Teachers Associationâs misleading anti-MCAS effort
Lawmakers need to deliver a clear ânoâ to union efforts to end the graduation exam.
By The Editorial BoardUpdated May 2, 2021, 4:00 a.m.
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Without a consistent way to measure student performance in Massachusetts, itâs easy to predict what would occur. Thriving suburban districts would keep thriving. But with no uniform standard for identifying student weaknesses, some kids in underperforming schools would be left without the knowledge and skills they need to succeed at work or college.
Yet, watching the maneuvers of the Massachusetts Teachers Association during the COVID-19 pandemic, one could easily come to the conclusion that the stateâs largest union is more concerned with getting the MCAS graduation exam â the stateâs main tool for assessing schoolsâ performance â out of their classrooms than students back i
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