The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2023

The women’s college received 13,614 applications for the fall of 2022 – a 48 percent increase over the 9,179 who applied in fall of 2019, according to a spokesperson for the college. Application figures suggest increased interest in Spelman over the past few years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

The New Civics threatens to replace traditional civics education with Neo-Marxist ‘social justice’ propaganda, vocational training for left-wing activism, and Alinsky-style community organizing techniques,” the head of the association, Peter Wood, wrote in a blog announcing the coalition.

Civic Engagement 141

Civic Engagement Civics Teaching Middle School 141

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Social justice is a core value of Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, and the school also belongs to a special assessment cons ortium , giving it more freedom in what is taught than a typical New York City public high school. Sanes gets a lot of support for this approach from his administration.

Teaching 135

Teaching Civics K-12 Civic Engagement 135

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In 2019, a grassroots campaign led by parents succeeded in passing a wave of dyslexia legislation. Science has to be taken seriously,” said Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice at UCLA and author of Proust and the Squid , a book about how the brain learns to read. “We

Tutoring 144

Tutoring Private School Social Justice Research 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If social justice is your aim, perhaps housing, health care, taxation and income may be more effective public policy levers than education. Pondiscio is the author of How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle over School Choice (2019). The results have not rewarded our faith. Maybe they never will.

Education 121

Education Charter School Social Justice K-12 121

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Credit: Olivia Sanchez/The Hechinger Report Since the Marcy Lab School opened in 2019, roughly 200 students have completed the program. “We’re trying to reverse a really big problem that’s been around for a long time,” the co-founder said.

Education 137

Education Social Justice Economics High School 137

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

Legacy admission also appears to be withstanding the resurgence of the racial and social justice movement following the killing of George Floyd. Related: Colleges fight attempts to stop them from withholding transcripts over unpaid bills.

Social Justice 118

Social Justice Economics High School Education Policy 118

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

By month’s end, there were 665 (including Reilly), which was more than double the college’s June 2019 applications. “We Missouri’s Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant, created in 2019 to target those 25 and older, has a “clawback” provision so students who don’t fulfill requirements must repay it as a loan with interest.

Economics 143

Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 143

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A Georgetown report published in October showed that from 1980 to 2019, average college costs rose 169 percent, while earnings for those aged 22 to 27 rose only 19 percent. The pandemic and social unrest have spurred activism and artistic and creative efforts, she said. That is an ongoing fear.”. Related: Shopping for a major?

Social Justice 125

Social Justice High School Advocacy Human Rights 125

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Unlike at Olmsted, the highest-scoring elementary school in the city, students at Eve scored around the dismal city average in math and English in 2019, when fewer than a quarter of students passed state tests. Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm.

Education 145

Education Elementary School High School Public School 145

Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

These schools often frame their efforts in social justice terms. For example, Launch’s manual states that “encouraging high aspirations in all our students” is meant to “reverse the social engineering of apartheid.”

Pedagogy 103

Pedagogy Anthropology Geography Private School 103

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

It waged battles that mattered for some, “but rarely made us feel like we were having a profound impact on the system,” said Sujatha Hampton, who became chair of the committee in 2019. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. That changed in the summer of 2020. In the wake of George Floyd’s death, committee membership exploded.

High School 145

High School Elementary School Public School Social Justice 145

Zinn Education Project

APRIL 2, 2024

Married for 40 plus years, they lived in North Kingsville, Ohio, and continued to support social justice causes with a focus on education. September, 2019. Prentiss served in the Ohio State Senate and Charney was a teacher and labor organizer. When we launched the Prentiss Charney Fellowship, C. Photo by Deborah Menkart.

Social Justice 109

Social Justice Civics Leadership Economics 109

Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 25, 2024

the fierce intellectual fireball, microbiologist, student of law, seeker of social justice, and woman of more “firsts” than can be imagined, and that is saying a lot of a woman in those times. Lois continues her longtime fight for social justice, and remains active in her pursuit of civil rights and equality. She was (is!)

Social Justice 52

Social Justice Government History Education 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

When she started classes at Paul Quinn College in 2019, counselors and school staff constantly encouraged her to visit its mental health clinic. The numbers don’t reflect the impact the pandemic and social justice movements over police killings have had on Black youth.

Social Justice 100

Social Justice Research High School Education 100

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Santana has been teaching the course at Philadelphia’s Parkway Northwest High School for Peace and Social Justice since 2019. In 2019, then Gov.

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Jake McGraw, of the Jackson-based William Winter Institute, a social justice and racial reconciliation group, said lawmakers thinking of solutions must acknowledge the sum of barriers outside of school in places like Holmes: poor access to health care and the lack of economic development. That is a fact. We need to acknowledge that.”.

Private School 143

Private School High School Public School Charter School 143

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. A few days later, I was asked to cover for a colleague who needed to step away from the classroom.

Education 128

Education K-12 Advocacy Government 128

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Worse, four in five of these maternal deaths —based on a review of those between 2017 and 2019—were preventable. And the problem may be getting more severe. A recent study has shown a rise in “maternal care deserts” —areas without access to adequate maternal care—even more strongly linking the location of birth to access to care.

EdTech 104

EdTech Education Social Justice Advocacy 104

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

They watched as the police murder of an unarmed Black man reignited the country’s fight for racial and social justice. Back in December 2019, as news first started trickling in from China about a new highly infectious virus, Mana had awoken with sudden hearing loss in her left ear — her doctors were unable to explain why.

Charter School 121

Charter School High School Social Justice Tradition 121

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

Social Studies Social Justice Controversial Topics Pedagogy 52

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

His most recent books are Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads: Technological Change and the Future of Politics (Princeton University Press, 2019) and Political Order and Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Two of his books received the William Riker award for the best book on political economy.

Political Science 72

Political Science Economics Social Science Government 72

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Nature” in 1641; the 1900 Galveston Hurricane ; the first commercial oil well in the Middle East in 1908; the 1953 coup in Iran ; the beginning of the “War on Terror” in 2001; the global student strikes in 2019; the climate crisis refugees in 2020; and many more. The No War, No Warming poster is from Visualizing Palestine.

Teaching 52

Teaching Social Justice K-12 Human Rights 52

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The spring 2024 issue offers a collection of articles and other resources on teaching about Palestine-Israel amid the growing attack on social justice education. Books Social Justice Books list of titles for K-12 and educators on Palestine. Rethinking Schools : Teach Palestine.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

More than 100 positions were unfilled at the start of the 2019-20 school year. She was still thinking about what to do after graduation in late 2019 when a recruiter with Teach Kentucky approached her about teaching in Louisville. Amia, a St. Paul, Minnesota, native, studied Spanish and history at Marquette University in Wisconsin.

Middle School 137

Middle School Heritage Teaching High School 137

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In 2019, the college started a wind, solar and battery storage program to prepare students for jobs in those industries. Aaron Durnbaugh, director of sustainability with Loyola University of Chicago, talked about how climate action aligned with the Jesuit institutions social justice mission.

Government 88

Government Social Justice Leadership Cultures 88