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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

That must change now that the field has been given a tremendous opportunity: training our next generation of social justice leaders. The number of students expressing interest in fields associated with social justice has seen a monumental increase since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.

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Unlocking Skills: What Learners and Employers Need to Know About Microcredentials

ED Surge

1EdTech inherited Open Badges from Mozilla in 2017. Another success story that comes to mind is from a provider that is partnering with a social justice nonprofit to help give internship opportunities to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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OPINION: We must close college counseling’s equity gap

The Hechinger Report

The ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards and Competencies require counselors to “use multicultural and social justice theories to promote equity and access for all students.”. Does this include calling out flagrant abuse and discriminatory practices?

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Foreign Language Classes are Becoming More Scarce

Digital Promise

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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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

ED Surge

According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire. Loss of Funding Persistently high turnover rates also come with a significant financial cost for school districts.

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Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

The Hechinger Report

It feels really good to say, ‘I believe in this and that,’” said Dawn Larson, a social justice and equity co-chair of the Green Lake PTA. “To In 2017, she co-authored a report that found some of the richest PTAs collected nearly $2,000 per student. We are a lip-service city and not everyone feels comfortable doing that.”.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

At IU Northwest in 2017, Latinx students like Perez had a six-year graduation rate of just 28 percent, while the graduation rate for white students was 35 percent. From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state.