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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 8, 2022
That must change now that the field has been given a tremendous opportunity: training our next generation of social justice leaders. The number of students expressing interest in fields associated with social justice has seen a monumental increase since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2018
Tyndall turned down a bevy of offers from colleges in other states to attend Rutgers’ Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), which brings together dozens of students each year for a residential program that combines rigorous academics with a social-justice focus. “I percent in 2000 to 25 percent by 2025. Sign up for our newsletter.
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Digital Promise
APRIL 16, 2019
Researchers at the Modern Language Association recently found that colleges lost 651 foreign language programs from 2013 to 2016 – dramatically more than the one foreign language programs that higher education lost between 2009 and 2013. Equity, or social justice, is another important consideration.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 27, 2020
Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Related: Online higher education isn’t winning over students forced off campus by the coronavirus.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 11, 2017
This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 22, 2024
On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Since she graduated in 2013, the name of the old high school had changed, but not much else. Back in 2013, more than a fifth of her senior class didn’t graduate. Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better.
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