The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

By 2018, the LDO had entered into a contract with the Mexican Government to offer the Plaza Comunitaria at MCC, an online program that provides a basic education certificate (much like an American GED) that is recognized in Mexico. Related: OPINION — The devastating consequences of leaving higher education out of prison reform.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

A 2018 study found that this ability to more easily learn a language lasts until about age 17 or 18 – which is longer than previously thought – but then begins to decline. Equity, or social justice, is another important consideration. Another important consideration is the age at which students begin to study a foreign language.

K-12 97

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

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. institution — Oxford University — as the best in the world in 2016-17.

Social Justice 93

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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.

Charter School 107

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Edinboro University, a public institution in Pennsylvania, cut 31 degree programs and concentrations in 2018, including music. Western Illinois University eliminated undergraduate majors in 2016 in African American studies, women’s studies, religious studies and philosophy.

Anthropology 144

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2018

MAFRAQ, Jordan — Syrian refugee children at a settlement near the Jordan-Syria border on April 26, 2018. I will apply to medical schools to fulfill my dream of becoming a physician, but I remain passionate about social justice work given all that I have seen in immigrant and refugee communities.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 17, 2024

She received her Bachelor of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies and Middle East Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018 with a high academic distinction, and received her Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Chicago in 2021, where she received the Social Sciences Scholarship of full tuition.

Political Science 52

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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

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

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. But she will be leading a new class on social justice; already, 111 students have signed up — enough for five sections. She was an older white woman.”.

Cultures 112

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

He attributes the cut to budget concerns — IU Northwest was the only campus within Indiana University’s higher education system to see a decline in appropriations from FY 2017 to 2018. Román-Lagunas said she has noticed that “the Latino student groups used to be stronger.”

Social Justice 111

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

It was written in 2018 by Philadelphia high school English teacher Matthew Kay, and he based it on his experiences having these conversations with his own students. The first book is called Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 21, 2024

He was also a research fellow at the Center for Religion & Media at NYU (2006–2007) and a visiting scholar at Princeton’s Program in Latin American Studies (fall 2018).

Anthropology 52

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In 2018, researchers studied data from more than a million people across countries and found they could strengthen the polygenic score to explain 11 percent of the variation in educational attainment. They’re disproportionately white and wealthy, while Black, Latinx, Indigenous and low-income students are often left out.

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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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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.

Social Justice 131

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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.

Private School 143

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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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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 129

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Gifted education needs to diversify, they said — for racial and social justice, and because otherwise it might not survive. And even before June’s historic civil rights protests, the issue of racism permeated the National Association for Gifted Children’s (largely white) November 2019 conference in Albuquerque.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

DeSantis, has grown increasingly skeptical that the class will spread to other Kentucky schools, even as her politically liberal district doubles down on a commitment to African American history it made as part of a curriculum revamp in 2018.

History 98

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C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

To support this claim, preservice teachers might bring up the inherently political components of language preservation projects, food sovereignty, linguistic justice, abolitionist teaching, and/or culturally relevant pedagogy (Nickman, 2009; NK 360, 2018; Lyiscott, 2014; Baker Bell, 2020; Love, 2019; Ladson Billings, 1995; 2014).

Social Studies 52

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Third-grade teacher Elizabeth Kleinrock works hard to inculcate respect of boundaries in her charges.

Social Justice 98

Social Justice High School Teaching Cultures 98

Geogramblings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I’ve been dubbed a ‘social justice warrior’ (that’s a badge of honour). Like the last two major football tournaments (2018 & 2020), I have created a spreadsheet for Geography teachers to take advantage of the football hub-bub that usually overtakes classrooms. I’m a football fan.

Geography 52

Geography Social Justice Humanities Cultures 52

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

She is the author of Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Her research interests are in political theory, with a focus on issues of economic justice, distributive and social justice, work and leisure, environmental ethics, and gender and family justice.

Political Science 72

Political Science Social Science Economics Government 72

Political Science Now

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The approach of open pedagogy involves a process of learning that is constructive and draws on theories of social justice. In addition, it is an approach grounded in the sharing of knowledge that is free, accessible, and open.

Pedagogy 53

Pedagogy Political Science Research Social Justice 53

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.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52

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. “It’s important for students to learn about that period, especially as it relates to what is happening today.”.

Teaching 108

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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.”. When Fuller called Trump “a despicable human being” at an education conference in early 2018, his school lost a grant (he declined to disclose the donor).

Charter School 109

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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.

Political Science 136

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

Almost 1 in 10 of the state’s educators left the classroom from 2010 to 2018. 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. More than 100 positions were unfilled at the start of the 2019-20 school year.

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