Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

A tenured Professor at the College of Southern Nevada, Professor Levy teaches courses in American Politics and Government, American Public Policy, Political Philosophy, Social Justice Movements, Minority Politics and Women in Politics.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”. Hardy hopes that Massachusetts’ own nascent Seal of Biliteracy program will help her find more allies to push a new bill in 2017. We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”. We talk about [our dual-language school] as a revolution.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Management has been denying resources from its schools, and ended 2018 spending $1 million LESS in staff salary costs for program services than in 2017,” said a press release from the Chicago Teachers Union , citing an audit it said was provided by the network’s management.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

From 2003 and 2017, researchers found that suicide rates rose among Black youth of all ages — with the biggest increase seen among the 15- to 17-year-olds, according to an article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Paul Quinn’s clinic boasts a staff mainly composed of three women of color.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

In late 2017, she was laid off. If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue. After her pay rose by just $1.60 an hour in five years, she took an administrative job at an automotive manufacturer that assembled car headlamps. Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 16, 2024

This headline provoked intense conversation among youth in a language and social justice course I developed with three multilingual educators at a nonprofit organization (Institute for the Future, IFF). As students noted, tourism jobs required English without paying minimum wage and were marked by exploitative labor conditions.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He also served on the Teaching and Learning Conference Program Committee from 2012 through 2017, helping to organize the structure and content of the meetings. Within this framework, he concentrated on key concepts such as power, conflict, social justice, equality, relative deprivation, and representation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

In a 2017 study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, researchers found that low- income black male elementary school students who were paired with a black teacher in the third, fourth, or fifth grades were 39 percent less likely to drop out of high school.

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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.”. Education is a tool for social justice. Sydney Chaffee, 2017’s National Teacher of the Year, is ninth-grade humanities teacher at Codman Academy Charter Public School of Dorchester, Massachusetts. It can empower students to stand up for themselves and create change.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Various theories circulate among researchers as to why mental health has been declining, including the influence of social media, changing parenting styles, and a seemingly unstable world confronting climate change, social justice, and political polarization. The National Association of School Psychologists was formed in 1969.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

It’s the middle of my first year back in the classroom after a year away as the 2017 National Teacher of the Year. While on my journey, I observed three patterns in particular that I’d like to share: Teacher leadership, social and emotional learning, and fellowship. Fellowship. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 17, 2024

Most active harm reduction organizations are social justice organizations. At the 6th Street Harm Reduction Center operated by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, a staff member disposed of used sharps in 2017. Neither is the case. The organization provides clean syringes and other supplies for safer injections.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Worse, four in five of these maternal deaths —based on a review of those between 2017 and 2019—were preventable. And the problem may be getting more severe. A recent study has shown a rise in “maternal care deserts” —areas without access to adequate maternal care—even more strongly linking the location of birth to access to care.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Only 58 percent of middle schools and 25 percent of elementary schools offer a foreign language in 2008, according to a 2017 report by the Commission on Language Learning, which was formed in response to a request by Congress to look deeper into foreign language learning in the United States. Most students in the U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

For displays and/or readings of banned books, Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended titles. With thousands of books banned, Social Justice Books has selected titles that address social issues , such as When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball.

Education 52

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Edthena

MARCH 26, 2021

It’s an effort that calls on educators to “teach a more accurate history that commonly goes untold: the role of grassroots activists and women, nuanced portraits of leaders like Parks and King, and racial and social justice battles that link the past to contemporary issues of inequality,” writes Melinda D. Anderson, a journalist.

American History 52

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Service is key, so projects often involve themes of social justice and community improvement. Campbell and Sydney Chaffee, the 2017 Massachusetts teacher of the year, think the partnership with Boston’s Huntington Theatre is particularly valuable for Codman students. The EL slogan is, “We are crew, not passengers.”.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. The 2017 Jakarta election left a discernible impact on President Jokowi’s political strategies for managing diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

This issue constitutes a new civil right: the right to digital equity,” concluded a June 2017 report on the “homework gap” from the Consortium for School Networking. Related: Many low-income families get on the Internet with smartphones or tablets. That matters. Here’s why.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2017

According the 2017 Living Wage Calculator out of MIT, a family of 3 to 4 individuals necessitates a minimum annual salary of $46,000. In wages adjusted for inflation, Arizona elementary teachers are making 11 percent less now than they were in 2001. Patterns for middle and high school teachers are similar.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

For many scholars, Professor James was the first person to introduce them to issues of social justice in research: how even the choice of a topic can be political, how to work with what we have and to try to learn more about what we do not, and why it even matters in the first place.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

New York City Deputy Mayor Richard Buery greets Chirlane McCray, the city’s first lady, at the awards ceremony and celebration in honor of Black History Month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on February 23, 2017. Look to either the 2017 Johns Hopkins’ study “Who Believes in Me? Why this should matter?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

My support for vouchers,” he said, “didn’t have a damn thing to do with free-market principles … it was a social justice issue to me.”. In 2017 the school received more than $462,000 in contributions, according to IRS filings. But he saw an even greater opportunity for low-income black families in a newer idea: charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. The program was also offered in 2016 and 2017. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

She resorted to an English major and returned to Holmes County in the summer of 2017 with her bachelor’s degree. Majoring in elementary education was her Plan B, but she eventually had to drop that, too, when she couldn’t pass the math section of the state’s certification exam after repeated attempts. That is a fact.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The spring 2024 issue offers a collection of articles and other resources on teaching about Palestine-Israel amid the growing attack on social justice education. Books Social Justice Books list of titles for K-12 and educators on Palestine. Rethinking Schools : Teach Palestine.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Her research explores the causes and consequences of political violence and repression, warfare dynamics, nationalism, and transitional justice after conflict. Cambridge University Press published her first book, Rivalry and Revenge: the Politics of Violence during Civil War in 2017.

Political Science 72

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Spring 2017. Related: Foundations aren’t helping anyone if they’re not serious about social justice. Anyone who saw more people at the 2017 presidential inauguration than President Barack Obama’s inaugurations and the Women’s March on Washington has been placed in the remedial math section of this class.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

That is our social justice call to action during these times.” Another is the Three Round Game shared with us by a teacher named Erin Farley in a comment on our retrieval practice post in 2017. We’ll be able to double down on those things because those aren’t so-called woke activities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2017

Demonstrators protest for transgender rights with a rally, march through the Loop and a candlelight vigil to remember transgender friends lost to murder and suicide on March 3, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Related: Foundations aren’t helping anyone if they’re not serious about social justice. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

Polling and Misperceptions National polling on Latino voters has historically been inadequate, leading to flawed assumptions about their political preferences ( Leal, Barreto, and Lee 2005; Albrajano and Alvarez 2010 ; Ramrez 2013 ; Barreto and Reny 2017 ).

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