The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

In 2015, Reimagine Prep opened its doors to one class of 5th graders. Kindergarten students participate in class at Sylvanie Williams College Prep elementary school, on January 16, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. million during the 2015-16 academic year due to funds diverted to charters. The SPLC calculates JPS lost $1.85

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. Gifted education needs to diversify, they said — for racial and social justice, and because otherwise it might not survive.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

The number of programs is increasing to meet demand from parents and communities, with 180 dual-language public school programs in New York City alone in 2015. Equity, or social justice, is another important consideration. Teacher Shortage. The report cites federal statistics showing that 44 states and Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It’s been on the state’s “low productivity” list — calculated once every four years — in 2011, 2015 and last year, only barely meeting the requirement for master’s programs of producing an average of at least four graduates per year. Falling enrollment has already imperiled programs such as FIU’s African and African Diaspora Studies.

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Edthena

JUNE 7, 2021

Bryan suggested that Edthena, partners with City University of Seattle since 2015 and serving over 1,100 CityU students, be used by teachers and teacher candidates to reflect on their interactions and behaviors with students and colleagues who are different from themselves. We already have tools to support student equity and inclusion.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

So North Star methodically set about reinventing its approach to STEM, with the experiment yielding positive results— from 2013 through 2015, 33 percent of its alumni majored in STEM disciplines in college. North Star added AP Biology in 2011, AP Calculus BC in 2013, AP Computer Science in 2014, AP Chemistry in 2015, and AP Physics last year.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lewis (he/him/his) is an identity politics researcher, social justice activist, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. I first joined APSA around 2014-2015, during my doctoral studies at the University of Missouri-St. I am a social justice activist in the traditions of W.E.B.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

New Jersey’s legislature passed a law in 2015 requiring most public colleges to have recovery housing. Related: How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice. Long condemned as a moral failing, addiction is increasingly seen as a public health issue, worthy of public dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2016

Between 1970 and 2013, the percentage of Americans in the lowest income quartile with a college degree by age 24 rose from 6 to 9 percent, according to the 2015 Indicators report by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education.

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All Things Pedagogical

APRIL 16, 2023

Interestingly the most grounded, community informed, social justice aware spaces are the ones where folk see themselves as accountable to others, to students, to their colleagues, to their departments, to their research groups. 10 Principles of Disability Justice. So I guess I will leave this week with an ask yourself.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2016

On December 9, 2015, in North Philadelphia, her father was shot and killed. He and the school’s other fourth-grade teacher, Chris Powers, have hosted guest speakers, including the district police captain, a gunshot-wound victim, and social-justice activists. She is 10 years old.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

However, we’re convinced that the success of this class is owed to our ability to build a community based on nurturing shared interests in politics and social justice – along with deep reservoirs of trust nurtured during two months of pre-pandemic, in-person classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

Education is a tool for social justice.”. My curriculum centers on justice and injustice, ideas which urban students of color are well-versed in and hungry to discuss. In the spring of 2015, as a capstone project for our study of Puerto Rico, students wrote letters to Congress. Education is a tool for social justice.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

According to 2015 research by Adam C. Because of the lived experience that comes with being a person of color, minority teachers are able to identify and deconstruct the racial and cultural biases present in school systems, making it more likely that classroom discussions include a social justice orientation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Service is key, so projects often involve themes of social justice and community improvement. Many, though not all, students, arrive at high school two to three years behind grade level, yet its four-year graduation rate in 2015 was 72 percent, slightly better than Boston’s overall average. Codman has its struggles.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

A 2015 Pew Research Center report revealed that the disconnected included 5 million households with school-aged children, who either couldn’t afford home broadband or lived in rural areas avoided by for-profit internet companies. Instead, most of that money was plowed into savings and investments totaling about $50 million as of 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

We don’t like to think of social justice as a zero-sum game. A biased criminal justice system forces us to redefine “merit” when it comes to determining who earned or deserves a scholarship. A prisoner’s hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana. Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

acquired some kind of postsecondary credential by 2015 (page 22) x 64% their credential was a 4-year diploma (approximately; it’s probably a little lower than the 2011 rate; page 22) = 25% of the Colorado High School Class of 2009 has a 4-year degree by 2015.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

These schools often frame their efforts in social justice terms. For example, Launch’s manual states that “encouraging high aspirations in all our students” is meant to “reverse the social engineering of apartheid.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In an editorial for Teaching Tolerance, a social justice and anti-bias organization, she writes, “[O]ne of the first social emotional topics covered is the importance of keeping our hands and feet to ourselves and respecting others’ personal space.” And this is far from the first time.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 21, 2024

Before joining the Geneva Graduate Institute, he taught at several institutions, including the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University (2007–2011) and Amsterdam University College (2011–2015).

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

Her course on Ovid and literary theory, which she brought from Bryn Mawr to UNC, introduced dozens of students to ideas that fundamentally challenged and enriched their thinking, and resulted in numerous publications by those students in peer-reviewed journals, as well as a two-decade retrospective she published in Classical World in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For much of its history, Antioch was ahead of its counterparts in more enviable ways, including its legacy of promoting social justice. “A Antioch enrolled only 45 new students last fall, compared to a goal of 80; its total enrollment now is 115, down from a 1960s peak of 2,000 and a post-reopening high of 266 in 2015.).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

We focus on education, health, the environment, public safety and social justice issues. We focus on education, health, the environment, public safety and social justice issues. This story was produced by PublicSource , Pittsburgh-area news outlet focused on in-depth and investigative reporting.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Then I think about the kinds of disciplinary sources I want to feature and the kinds of formal and informal performance tasks I’ll use to assess student learning (Swan, Grant, & Lee, 2015). 6; Love, 2019). Once I had the building blocks of my assessment course, I started mapping out the Blueprint that would guide my course.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

She is also the co-author of White Backlash: Immigration, Race and American Politics (with Zoltan Hajnal), published by Princeton University Press in 2015. It received APSA’s Ralphe Bunche Award for the best book on Race and Politics in 2015. Two of his books received the William Riker award for the best book on political economy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2017

Related: Foundations aren’t helping anyone if they’re not serious about social justice. The 2015 call from a number of national groups proposes just that. Eight transgender people have died this year, and 22 transgender people died last year in the United States because of violence , according to the Human Rights Campaign.

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