Stevie Van Zandt’s TeachRock eyed for more Long Island classrooms
Freeport music teacher Stephanie Arnell wanted her students to learn about farmworker rights activist Dolores Huerta, so she played two songs associated with her life to the sixth-graders. For a lesson on the Jim Crow South, she turned to The Beatles and their refusal to perform before a segregated audience in Florida. Her classroom at Caroline G. Atkinson school is …