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A Teacher’s View: Learning to Become Modern-Day Muckrakers in Their Community Made My Students More Engaged, Excited and Independent

1887: A photograph from muckraker Jacob Riis’s publication “How The Other Half Lives,” which documented squalid conditions in New York City slums. (Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images)
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