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 Eventually, he’d like to serve as either the U.S.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Nationally, 18 percent of teachers are people of color — including African-Americans, non-white Hispanics, Native Americans and Asians — according to the authors of an August 2016 report published by the Brookings Institution. The program’s emphasis on social justice has also taught him how to craft better lessons.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 27, 2016
It is not logical that students at a social justice-oriented school are learning the complexities of race and socioeconomic status in an environment that is majority white and upper-class.”. But some students feel they have not gone far enough. Related: More Latino students earning high school diplomas wrestle stubborn equity gap.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 16, 2018
The NNSTOY Social Justice Book list is a great resource for building your classroom library. Speak out in faculty meetings about inclusion, equity, and social justice and if necessary, challenge the status quo. One Without the Other: Stories of Unity Through Diversity and Inclusion (2016) by Shelley Moore.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 27, 2020
They believe that kids, no matter what grade they are in, should learn history through an antiracist lens, not only learning about the role of white supremacy and racism in history, but doing so in a way that empowers them to pursue social justice. And they aren’t the only ones advocating the adoption of such curricula.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 27, 2020
Western Illinois University eliminated undergraduate majors in 2016 in African American studies, women’s studies, religious studies and philosophy. And universities collectively jettisoned 651 programs in languages between 2013 and 2016, the MLA reports, compared to only one in the four years before that.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 15, 2018
institution — Oxford University — as the best in the world in 2016-17. And in the 2018 rankings, Oxford University remained number one, while the University of Cambridge ranked second (jumping from fourth place in 2016-17). The Times Higher Education / World University Ranking ranked, for the first time in 12 years, a non-U.S.
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