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

The Hechinger Report

That must change now that the field has been given a tremendous opportunity: training our next generation of social justice leaders. The number of students expressing interest in fields associated with social justice has seen a monumental increase since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.

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2025 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships

Society for Classical Studies

In 2025, the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Program will offer 16 two-year fellowship opportunities with mission-driven social justice nonprofits for recent humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs. Fellows will take on roles in advocacy, policy research, communications, public engagement, and more.

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NAACP targets a new civil rights issue—reading

The Hechinger Report

That changed in the summer of 2020. They are part of a nationwide movement to embrace what cognitive science shows us about how students learn to read, particularly about the role of phonics—and they see this as a path toward social justice. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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

The Hechinger Report

Ultimately, the parents agreed that the Green Lake PTA would direct 3 percent of its fundraising — $5,000 during the 2020-21 school year — directly to the Rising Star PTA and would sponsor specific events for kids and teachers during the year. We are a lip-service city and not everyone feels comfortable doing that.”. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

ED Surge

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. Advocacy and LGBTQIA+ rights organizations are desperate for teachers to share classroom experiences that might inform policymakers’ decisions.

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College student voting is way up

The Hechinger Report

More than half of Americans ages 18 to 24 turned out for the 2020 general election , according to the U.S. Of the more than 1 million new voters it signed up in all, Vote.org says 34 percent were 18, compared to 8 percent during its 2020 voter registration drive. Census Bureau. Not all groups of students vote in equally high numbers.

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2024 Post-Election Reflection Series: Cultural Values and Economic Priorities: The not-so-shocking Rise of Latino Support for Trump

Political Science Now

Scholars have also shown campaigns often mistake Latinx as a monolithic group and overlook the community’s nuanced identities ( Stokes 2003 ; Morales, Rodriguez, and Schaller 2020 ). Although Harris performed worse with Latino voters than Joe Biden in 2020, she still garnered most of their votes in 2024.