The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

A new analysis of all the research on digital picture books , published in March 2021, helps to answer this question. Kucirkova, one of the authors of the March 2021 picture book meta-analysis, explained that her team wanted to learn which digital enhancements were working and which weren’t.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Related: OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders “What can’t you do with a humanities degree?” And earnings and occupation are not the only measures of success in one’s career or life.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

One for-profit college president even started teaching an online social justice class to 150 high school juniors and seniors, during which they discussed topics like the deaths of George Floyd or Breonna Taylor at the hands of police.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Predominantly white legislatures in at least 35 states in 2021 began pursuing policies or laws that would restrict teaching about race and racism. One group of our students co-created a social justice curriculum that is now being taught in some Delaware schools.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

’s dedication to education, public service, and social justice. life was a testament to the power of ideas and the enduring impact of a life dedicated to truth and justice. Holden’s life and legacy will be held at St. Christophers. Instead of flowers, please donateto a charity emblematic of Dr. Matthew Holden Jr.’s

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By 2021, it had committed to its most ambitious goal yet: overhauling the way Fairfax County Public Schools teaches students to read and supports struggling readers. They followed up on the NAACP’s literacy letter in spring of 2021 with a joint missive to the district.) “We This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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Edthena

MAY 18, 2021

Alicia is also committed to equity and social justice. In her role as a member of the district’s curriculum development team, Alicia ensures that culturally responsive literature and topics of social justice are represented. She is a knowledgeable and skilled instructional coach. Jill Taylor.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

It will be implemented for freshmen in the 2021-22 academic year. In August, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the change into state law , the first adjustment to the general education curriculum in 40 years. Efforts elsewhere have been less successful. They didn’t really seem to be willing to address the issues that we pointed out,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

Black and Latino parents were most hesitant about the return to in-person schooling in fall 2021. She has been an educator in the classroom and within school districts, and a leader of professional development for educators, with a focus on culturally responsive pedagogy, social justice, racial equity and community partnerships.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Derek Francis, manager of counseling services for Minneapolis Public Schools, talks about students’ complicated year while at an in-person social gathering that was part of the Minnesota School Counselors Association’s two-day virtual conference. The pandemic and social unrest have spurred activism and artistic and creative efforts, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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. We’re not just fighting for Antioch College.

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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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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lewis (he/him/his) is an identity politics researcher, social justice activist, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In 2021, Dr. Lewis was honored with a Missouri State Resolution “for service in higher education” from the Missouri House of Representatives, Resolution No.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 17, 2024

She received her Bachelor of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies and Middle East Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018 with a high academic distinction, and received her Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Chicago in 2021, where she received the Social Sciences Scholarship of full tuition.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 16, 2024

This headline provoked intense conversation among youth in a language and social justice course I developed with three multilingual educators at a nonprofit organization (Institute for the Future, IFF). As students noted, tourism jobs required English without paying minimum wage and were marked by exploitative labor conditions.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 18, 2023

Her 2021 book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education , is one I wish I’d had available to me before I started teaching; it would have made a world of difference in how I saw my students and designed my classroom practices.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 and 2022. For example, in 2021 the Foster Woods Folk School offered a virtual teach-in with a series of five- to seven-minute “illegal lessons” from or about a historical site or event near them. Every action counts.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

She is the author of the 2021 book Include ( Amazon | Bookshop ) and a co-author of the upcoming book Manga Goes to School: Cultivating Engagement and Inclusion in K-12 Settings ( Amazon | Bookshop ).

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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. million teenagers were set to graduate from high school in spring 2021. That’s the entity that we would be better off without,” Jaden said in January 2021. It threw a huge fork into my plans.”.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. For example, in 2021 the Foster Woods Folk School offered a virtual teach-in with a series of five- to seven-minute illegal lessons from or about a historical site or event near them. The group can be any size.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg urged President Joe Biden to push every school in the country to stay open this summer in a March 2021 Washington Post opinion piece. Summer school may seem like a common sense way to help children make up for the months of lost school time during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

surgeon general issued an advisory in December 2021 warning of a youth mental health crisis. The association reports the national average was 1:415 in the 2020-21 school year. The flurry of recent activity is being driven by experts – and students themselves. The National Association of School Psychologists was formed in 1969.

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Edthena

MARCH 26, 2021

It’s an effort that calls on educators to “teach a more accurate history that commonly goes untold: the role of grassroots activists and women, nuanced portraits of leaders like Parks and King, and racial and social justice battles that link the past to contemporary issues of inequality,” writes Melinda D. Anderson, a journalist.

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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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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.” For displays and/or readings of banned books, Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended titles.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.” For displays and/or readings of banned books, Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended titles.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In 2021, when he joined the district’s central office, the Philadelphia school system committed to investing in training for teachers and revamping the curriculum to include more primary sources, among other changes.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The Day of Action is cosponsored by more than 65 prominent racial and social justice organizations. Rocio Inclan , senior director, National Education Association Center for Racial and Social Justice It’s an honor to join you, and to speak on behalf of the National Education Associations’ 3 million members.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I even found “Heather” again: In December 2021, a Pennsylvania school district ordered the removal of the book from all of its elementary-school libraries over parental objections, leading its author, Lesléa Newman, to declare : “It’s 1992 all over again.”. “No

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

Friday/Class of 1986 Award for Excellence in Inspirational Teaching, and in 2021, she was recognized by the UNC Board of Governors with their system-wide Award for Excellence in Teaching. As a teacher, Professor James was simultaneously uncompromising in her rigorously high expectations and deeply compassionate in her pedagogy.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

During the 2021 legislative session, there were over 50 bills introduced targeting transgender youth participation in sports as well as bans on gender-affirming healthcare. In May 2021, at the peak of the debate over Texas’s HB 25 , calls from the state to the national Transgender Lifeline Crisis Center increased 71.6 State officials.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Within this perspective, a sustained commitment to social justice or abolitionist teaching may dictate a “certain kind” of education that pushes back against oppression and the status quo (Hill Collings, p. 6; Love, 2019).

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

That is our social justice call to action during these times.” In a 2021 article and interview with her co-author Mirko Chardin, Katie Novak presents Universal Design as a tool for teaching more equitably. We’ll be able to double down on those things because those aren’t so-called woke activities.

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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 said Justice.

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