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Activist students go to summer camp to learn how to help institute a ‘green new deal’ on their campuses

The Hechinger Report

This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. In his freshman world geography class, he said, students sometimes felt overwhelmed by the climate catastrophe, leaving them depressed and despairing. “It

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More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

The Hechinger Report

What subjects people study, what fields they enter, even geography — all matter in determining income, said Anthony Carnevale, director of the center and a co-author of the report. Yusanat Tway, a sociology major at the University of Minnesota, wants to go to law school, then do human rights advocacy. “It That is an ongoing fear.”.

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Activism in/as Scholarship

All Things Pedagogical

I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students chose their sites from a group of 10 photos, making inferences about how the climate and other factors might affect the geography based on what they saw in the photos, things like sea water, clouds, farm fields and evidence of erosion on rocks.

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California finally ended a ban on bilingual education. Now it can’t find enough teachers for these classes

The Hechinger Report

A limping recovery: 2016 to 2024 Flores spent 40 years training future teachers before retiring in 2019. They can learn social studies in Spanish; its still history and geography. We lost a whole generation of kids quite a few generations, really because of English-only. The next generation, however, is still waiting.

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Are we ready? How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change

The Hechinger Report

High school students have become an increasing force in climate change activism; in 2019, hundreds of thousands of young people skipped school and took to the streets to protest the climate crisis in a global strike. Credit: Courtesy of Beatriz López. What the critics are saying is factually inaccurate,” wrote one reviewer.

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Students take their future into their own hands on climate change activism

The Hechinger Report

Students participate in a global walkout for Climate Change in downtown Los Angeles, California on March 15, 2019. Thunberg’s actions led to worldwide protests three days before the United Nations Climate Action Summit in September 2019. Young people, inspired by Greta Thunberg, are calling on politicians to act on climate change.

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