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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

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Want to Humanize Classrooms? Take a Page From Youth Organizers.

ED Surge

In the winter of 2020, I participated in a two-day youth organizing retreat in Detroit. How can teachers learn from the practices and principles of youth organizing to create more humanizing, engaging and empowering classrooms? The group of students decided they wanted to focus their advocacy on teacher practice.

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PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says

The Hechinger Report

If correct, this means that one out of every three public school children was chronically absent during the second full school year of the pandemic, when most children were learning in person and should have been catching up from the disrupted year of 2020 and the first half of 2021. Before the pandemic, only about 16 percent of U.S.

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As more youth struggle with behavior and traditional supports fall short, clinicians are partnering with lawyers to help

The Hechinger Report

Though the concept of medical-legal partnerships has existed since the 1990s, the Yale partnership, launched in November 2020, is the first in the nation focused exclusively on children’s behavioral health. Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6 Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6

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Education Has Been Hammering the Wrong Nail. We Have to Focus on the Early Years.

ED Surge

The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless. What the pandemic has shown us is that we also need a new modern redesign in education, one that refocuses on the essence of our social brains and our resilience: human connections.

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PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

The Hechinger Report

It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society. According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. .

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High school graduation rates for one important group are starting to get better

The Hechinger Report

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. You can’t just put together a program and expect parents to show up. Don’t just translate a website and think you’ve done something.”.