This week’s recommendation is about former NBA player J.R. Smith’s current college experiences and how he is sharing it with Twitter.
IFL Recommends 10/19
This week’s recommendation is an article published by TODOS that attempts to shift the narrative about “learning loss” to what actually matters.
IFL Recommends 10/12
This week’s recommendation details a Jamaican-born man’s experiences, with beautiful and sometimes disturbing imagery, of walking along streets in Jamaica and in the United States, and how different those walks are.
IFL Recommends 10/5
This week’s recommendation is an article about racism and colorblindness and why racism is not just about “the most clear-cut, isolated, acts of extreme prejudice.”
IFL Recommends 9/28
This week’s recommendation is a short TED Talk (presented by one of the youngest-ever TED speakers) that looks at ways that parents and caregivers can support children’s healthy brain development.
IFL Recommends 9/21
This week’s read looks at the history of the Carlisle Indian School, the first off-reservation Native American boarding school in the United States. The author looks at the negative impact it, and other boarding schools like it, has had on Native American children and their families.
IFL Recommends 9/14
This week’s read looks at the concept of children as citizens of their cities.
IFL Recommends 9/7
This week’s read looks into the (re)opening of Broadway. Math fellow Beatriz Strawhun chose this article because “The theater has always been my escape, my chance to take an adventure, or walk in another’s shoes during some distant time period or in a far-off place. I am so excited for the reopening of the Great White Way. But I am more excited for those programs that take students to a Broadway Show to begin once again. It is through the theater that I find my way, my song and my story and given the chance, students do as well. Let’s all go to the theater!”