Digital Promise

MARCH 2, 2021

The importance of reimagining education through an equity lens has been amplified through the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice of 2020, accelerating the urgency for districts. Creating an equitable school district requires new capacities and supports for leaders and educators.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

By 2020, the majority of U.S. It is not logical that students at a social justice-oriented school are learning the complexities of race and socioeconomic status in an environment that is majority white and upper-class.”. By 2020, a majority of college students in the U.S. college students will be nonwhite.

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Social Justice Leadership Political Science Education 109

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

What Teachers Pay Teachers Is Learning From Bad Lessons and Upset Teachers by Stephen Noonoo The popular lesson planning site Teachers Pay Teachers has long struggled with allegations of plagiarism, racist lesson plans and poor content quality—drawing the ire of teachers and social media users. But for some, the situation is still fraught.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

I took one course called Schools and Society and another called Social Justice in Urban Education. Me and my co-authors really wanted to have a book that was about social justice, especially with the current political climate. We published that one in November 2020. I was 16 years old when this book came out.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

A one-credit course on “systemic anti-Black racism and anti-racism” will be required for all freshmen beginning in fall 2020. The University of Pittsburgh has been more responsive to its students’ requests than most universities. Why am I not learning about people who look like me?” Efforts elsewhere have been less successful.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

In May 2020, White earned an associate degree in business administration, with a 3.84 If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue. A 2020 report showed that among the first adult cohort, 61 percent earned a credential or continued their studies.). Savings and a loan covered living costs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

One particularly gripping data point demonstrates that of school districts that were remote for most of 2020-21, high-poverty schools experienced 50 percent more achievement loss than low-poverty schools.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As a junior in college, TFA’s "mission” of ending educational inequity appealed to students like myself: hardworking and passionate about the intersection of social justice and education. Parachuting In, Unprepared for Duty During the first quarter of the 2020-2021 academic year, I needed to make my first-ever parent call.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The numbers don’t reflect the impact the pandemic and social justice movements over police killings have had on Black youth. Paul Quinn returned to in-person learning in the fall of 2020. Clinic staff showed up at student events, reintroducing them to the clinic’s resources and reminding them of the support systems on campus.

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Social Justice Research High School Education 103

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

I’ve invited three exceptional librarians to share their expertise and recommendations in curating more inclusive collections: Julia Torres currently serves as a public librarian in Colorado and was named as a 2020 Library Journal Mover and Shaker.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. How can English teachers discuss Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain” or Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” without considering race and social justice?

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Social Justice Education American History K-12 112

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The association reports the national average was 1:415 in the 2020-21 school year. 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.

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Social Justice K-12 High School Psychology 133

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

In a 2020 synthesis of summer school studies, researchers calculated that the benefit to students tends to be close to zero in math or reading. Grossman, an economist at MDRC, a nonprofit research organization, and Princeton University, who has evaluated summer school programs. “It

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Adapted and reprinted from Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities by Andre Perry, with permission from Brookings Institution Press, © 2020 by Brookings Institution. The post The educational value of a black teacher appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

They fanned out across historically undercounted communities like Harlem and reported on the 2020 census. Census, we had taught them how to plumb demographic data and to understand why the census was key to both political apportionment and allocating federal funds for institutions like public schools. Still, we were taking a risk.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

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.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report Social-emotional learning – aimed at fostering a wide assortment of soft skills from empathy and listening to anger management and goal-setting – has been one of the hottest trends in education over the past decade, and more recently, a new flashpoint in the culture wars.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2022

How can tests actually promote social justice? I used to teach social studies and every assessment had Thomas Jefferson on it. When I first went back to grad school, I studied what was the equivalent of social justice at Emory. He designed the logo for the Center for Measurement Justice.

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Social Justice Cultures Social Studies Research 91

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

“There’s very little high-quality evidence, and no comparable mammalian example, to argue for the specialness of cow’s milk” after about age 2, Aaron Carroll, a professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, wrote in a 2020 New York Times article.

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

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Education K-12 Advocacy Government 128

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. For fall 2020, the parents of 403 children applied to Olmsted’s elementary gifted program and 39 to Eve’s, according to data the district provided. Does letting more kids in fix the underlying inequities?

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 2, 2024

She has also been active in the Black Radical Congress, ACT UP New York, and African American Women in Defense of Ourselves, and she is a founder and executive committee member of Scholars for Social Justice, as well as a member of the collective More than Diversity at the University of Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School. The school is steeped in history: It was the first African American public school in Kentucky, and counts boxer Muhammad Ali among its alumni.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In 2020, it accepted no new students at all, and its future remained uncertain. Antioch College in Ohio, which focuses on activism and social justice and is governed collectively by its faculty and students, reopened after closing for three years, during which faculty and alumni sued and raised money to revive it.

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Social Justice Political Science Government Economics 105

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).

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Sapiens

JANUARY 17, 2024

But over the past few years, overdose rates among Black Americans have increased precipitously—by 44 percent in 2020 alone. National Institute on Drug Abuse shows a significant jump in total deaths by opioid-related overdoses since 2020. Most active harm reduction organizations are social justice organizations.

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Social Justice Government Research History 120

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.

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Geography Social Justice Humanities Cultures 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

in His Own Words 2020 segment of Democracy Now! and Malcolm X April 30, 1967: “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam” Speech March 14, 1968: King Speaks About the “Other America” in the North March 22, 1968: March for Justice and Jobs May 12, 1968: The Poor People’s Campaign Began Class: The Dr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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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.

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Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52

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.

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Teaching Social Justice K-12 Human Rights 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

When sports practices were abruptly canceled at his school on March 12, 2020, Michael Liao, then 17, started to worry how much the pandemic would affect his school – and particularly his upcoming theater performance. All three planned to graduate at the end of the 2020-21 school year. Mana Setayesh. Mana Setayesh.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

That is our social justice call to action during these times.” Practice 4: Identity Work In Gholdy Muhammad’s 2020 book, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy , she introduces a framework she built with Black students in mind, but that would benefit all students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

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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Political Science Civics Government Social Justice 137

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

In 2020, Louisville witnessed its highest homicide count on record, with 173 deaths. She joined a program called “ Justice Now ” dedicated to empowering students to organize projects around social justice issues important to them. It bothers Louis that they never met in person. Maybe, if I was able to see him,” he said.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

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.

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Economics Cultures Social Justice Political Science 39

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2023

In a striking change from the first Joyful Warriors National Summit in Tampa, Florida, last July, where protesters were few, the second gathering in Philadelphia June 29 – July 2 was met with pushback from social justice advocates and parent activists opposed to the group’s right-wing policies. “It

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