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Supporting Question 1: Defining Educational Justice
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One 50-min class periodSubject
- Civics & Citizenship
- Social Studies
Grade
8Language
English — USPublished
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Students will consider the meaning of educational justice by reviewing documents and accounts of African American, Latinx, and Chinese American Bostonians’ experiences in Boston schools in the 1960s. Students will then complete a Frayer model graphic organizer and write their own definitions of educational justice.
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Supporting Question 1: Defining Educational Justice
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Supporting Question 2: The Pursuit of Educational Justice in the 1960s and 1970s
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