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How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice

The Hechinger Report

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. Future of Learning.

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Why Well-Behaved Teachers Rarely Make Systemic Change in Schools

ED Surge

My undergraduate education, grounded in social justice and critical literacy, energized me to create equitable opportunities in my classroom. These words, toxic yet final, confirmed their lack of leadership. The disrespect from district leadership overshadowed my professional achievement.

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New faces on campus: Students of all races welcome first black presidents to largely white colleges

The Hechinger Report

Since 2013, seven small, highly selective liberal arts colleges not known for diversity have for the first time chosen college presidents who are black— just as students are demanding a better racial mix on their campuses. Data show there is plenty of room for improvement in leadership ranks: The most recent survey of 1,662 U.S.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Gifted education needs to diversify, they said — for racial and social justice, and because otherwise it might not survive. They said that giftedness could also be creativity, and found that a high IQ score did not necessarily correspond with leadership, professional accomplishment or even success in school.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

The third-generation Japanese American congresswoman was a trailblazer who advocated for women’s rights, civil rights, education, and social justice. In 2013, Senator Inouye was awarded posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. He lost his right arm in the war.

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In Memoriam: Sharon James

Society for Classical Studies

She continued this work with “Trafficking Pasicompsa: A Courtesan’s Travels and Travails in Plautus’ Mercator ” ( New England Classical Journal , 2010) and “Reconsidering Rape in Menander’s Comedy and Athenian Life” (in Menander in Contexts , 2013). In 2013, she earned UNC’s William C.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

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. Attempts to raise taxes to build a state-of-the-art high school in this high-poverty district have failed. The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better. That is a fact.