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For parents of color, schooling at home can be an act of resistance

  • Written by Monisha Bajaj, Professor of International and Multicultural Education, University of San Francisco
Educating your children at home brings the power to choose what they learn.MoMo Productions/Getty Images

My 6-year-old hates the British. To be more specific, the British Empire that ruled over up to a quarter of the world’s land by the early 1900s. Hates that one of the biggest diamonds in the world, found in India over 1,000 years ago, now...

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