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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

His time in elementary school preceded both Johnson’s leadership at Collins Elementary and Duty’s in the district. Johnson started at Collins in 2016 as an assistant principal and took the top job in 2020. A Human Rights Watch report from 2008 chronicles more accounts in a section titled “‘The Devil’s Bargain’: Choosing to be Beaten.

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History Lesson: Did the election just erase 250 years of progress?

The Hechinger Report

It was always perplexing to me to see the disparity between our society’s low expectations of women and my experience of the leadership shown by these two women, my role models. Women’s rights are human rights: That was Eleanor’s view before the slogan became associated with Hillary Clinton, from her speech at the 1995 U.N.

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College Uncovered: Abortion on the ballot … and in the mail

The Hechinger Report

Andrea] Kristan Hawkins is the president of Students for Life of America, which has become the largest anti-abortion youth organization in the world under her leadership. Ross, the renowned human rights activist who’s now a professor at Smith College. And that was before Trump was elected in 2016.