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By Aleta Margolis When I was an elementary school student, I remember learning the term insurrection. It meant “a violent uprising against an authority or government” and was used to describe the kinds of exotic events that happened in farawa

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By Sean Slade and Ariel Tichnor-Wagner As schools and educators face one of their greatest challenges in serving and supporting students during the COVID-19 crisis, it’s more important than ever to develop education systems that focus on th