2018 Advocacy Leadership 
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 20, 2020
Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. In a state where almost one-third of residents are Black, in 2018, only 8 percent of students at the flagship university were Black and only 3 percent were Black men.
ED Surge
MARCH 8, 2023
Community Impact and Student Leadership In 2018, I worked with a group of students who inspired the creation of MIStudentsDream , a community organization focused on immigration and education justice. The group of students decided they wanted to focus their advocacy on teacher practice.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 17, 2018
But during the past four years, New York parents have actively excluded about one in five students from taking the annual state tests (including 18 percent in the spring 2018 test administration). Partly because it’s a grassroots movement without clear leadership or an elaborate organization. Indeed, in 2016, the U.S.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 21, 2024
In the 2018-2019 academic year, the university enrolled 6,763 undergraduate students, compared to 5,372 in the 2021-2022 academic year (the most recent year available from the National Center for Education Statistics). There is intentionality, there’s leadership here,” she said of the Davenport program.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 10, 2021
When Diamante Hare stepped onto Northeastern Illinois University’s campus in Chicago for the first time in 2018, he was gambling with thousands of dollars of grants, scholarships and loans — and his future. Diamante Hare, a senior at Northeastern Illinois University, felt uncomfortable and out of place when he first started in 2018.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 24, 2017
I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. I want to use my master’s degree to change that. Sign up for our newsletters.
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