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Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

March for Children in Chicago, 2018. Students are impervious to lies when they know the history and can think critically. Mexico War: “We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God” Lesson by Bill Bigelow This interactive activity introduces students to the history and often untold story of the U.S.-Mexico Mexico War.

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Teaching Social Justice K-12 History

‘Black At’ Instagram accounts put campus racism on display

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

They graduated from Amherst College in 2018. Kyndall Ashe, 2018 graduate of Amherst College. If you’re wondering if you can say the N-word, Black at Tulane has a detailed Instagram story explaining the history of the word and who should and shouldn’t say it.

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Social Justice K-12 High School Tradition

Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

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.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Will history repeat? Former Florida governor and now senator Rick Scott set up a task force that recommended public universities charge more for “non-strategic majors” such as history and English. “Is Edinboro University, a public institution in Pennsylvania, cut 31 degree programs and concentrations in 2018, including music.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue. Tennessee, which in 2014 created “Tennessee Promise,” the first statewide free tuition program for high school graduates , and has run “Tennessee Reconnect” for adults returning to higher education since 2018, has useful lessons. (A Reilly’s first day is Aug.

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Inside one school’s efforts to bridge the divide between white teachers and students of color

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

There’s more consensus about what it is not: a checklist, or an annual celebration, like Black History Month. The 2018 Delaware teacher of the year, she has become a regional leader in the effort to expand culturally responsive teaching, and she pushed for last fall’s mandatory training. It’s our responsibility to students.”.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Raoul Contreras, a professor who leads the Latino studies program housed in the minority studies department, notes that in the last year, the school cut a Puerto Rican history class he taught.

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Should we screen kids’ genes to ‘predict’ how successful they’ll be in school?

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

But some researchers fear this gene screening work could be misapplied and used to further racist or eugenic thinking, even though race is a social, not a genetic, classification. And there are debunked racist theories that have endeavored to falsely connect race and intelligence.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

History

History American History Teaching K-12

OPINION: Can Zoom classes keep students excited and engaged? We have found some ways

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better. And although white and black students make up a similar proportion of Mississippi’s student population, white students were more than twice as likely to attend one of Mississippi’s 31 A-rated school districts this year, according to 2018-19 enrollment data.

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

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

The school’s PTSA had zero assets or income as of 2018, according to a local public radio report. “I 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 We are a lip-service city and not everyone feels comfortable doing that.”.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Despite our school’s commitment to social justice and our district’s prioritization of equity, there were still staff members who were unwilling to voice public support for all students. To put this into context, that number was just 41 bills in the whole of 2018.

Education

Education K-12 Advocacy Government

Meet the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review (APSR)

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Alison McQueen is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and History (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Her research focuses on early modern political theory and the history of International Relations Thought. She is the author of Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history when black lives mattered.”.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History

Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. 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.”.

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College student voting is way up

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report McAndrew gives particular credit for the rising numbers of young voters to the gun-safety organization March for Our Lives, founded by survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17. Social media has a huge impact.

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Tears, sleepless nights and small victories: How first-year teachers are weathering the crisis

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

Almost 1 in 10 of the state’s educators left the classroom from 2010 to 2018. Paul, Minnesota, native, studied Spanish and history at Marquette University in Wisconsin. At Stuart Academy, students scored lower in math, reading and science during the 2018-19 academic year compared to other middle schools in the district.

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Teach About Immigration

‘Black At’ Instagram accounts put campus racism on display

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Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

Inside one school’s efforts to bridge the divide between white teachers and students of color

Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

Should we screen kids’ genes to ‘predict’ how successful they’ll be in school?

How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

OPINION: Can Zoom classes keep students excited and engaged? We have found some ways

‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

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

Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

Meet the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review (APSR)

Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

College student voting is way up

Tears, sleepless nights and small victories: How first-year teachers are weathering the crisis

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