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Activism in/as Scholarship

All Things Pedagogical

I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Since 2016, when the couple launched an LLC to coordinate much of their charitable giving, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has committed $142.1 And the lessons about independence and self-advocacy lead to kids who know how and when to ask for help. million in grant support for the Summit Learning Program.

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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two. He said veteran studies is more about the long-term impacts of war than the logistics of arming and deploying forces.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report and Reveal asked the state for a list of the primary textbooks used by every public school in all 148 Mississippi districts during the 2016-17 school year. The book was valuable for state geography and basic vocabulary, she said, but using it to teach about the Civil Rights Movement was out of the question.

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California finally ended a ban on bilingual education. Now it can’t find enough teachers for these classes

The Hechinger Report

Voters banned it again in 1998, only reversing the latest prohibition in 2016. California has removed the official barriers to offering this type of instruction since 2016, and the state now champions bilingualism and biliteracy, encouraging all students to strive for both. Her home state could have kept pace with Texas. But it didnt.

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

The Hechinger Report

We’re setting up a system in which students, by the accident of geography, are getting very different kinds of education,” Ross said. “Do Securly is one of the most popular web filters, used in more than 20,000 schools, and its “sexual content” category covers “websites about sexual health and LGBTQ+ advocacy websites.” Is that fair?”

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Students take their future into their own hands on climate change activism

The Hechinger Report

Her efforts led the state to revoke the permit in 2016. People thought of our fight to stop the incinerator cute after school hobby,” Watford told Time magazine in 2016. “It Watford mobilized her impoverished neighborhood of Curtis Bay, canvassing the area for four years. That was a real civics lesson she will never forget.

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