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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations. After the lockdown period had eased, in early 2022, Jen and her students accompanied Cassandra and MASC leaders in their first return to in-person meetings at the Massachusetts State House. prisons and jails.

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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

You can help us broaden this important work by running a Wikipedia assignment in Winter/Spring 2022. In a course on African Politics , students created new articles on Voting rights in Nigeria as well as Child soldiers in Uganda. They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 and 2022. Photo by Dean Hesse, 2022. For more ideas , see the actions from June and August , 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. And in 2022 for Georgia , Ohio , and Washington. Every action counts. Determine type of action.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. Photo by Dean Hesse, 2022. For more ideas , see the actions from June and August , 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. Invite fellow educators, family members, students, and community members to join you.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

ED Surge

offer succinct conceptual frameworks in their 2022 book : “The Racialized Experiences of Asian American Teachers in the US: Applications of Asian Critical Race Theory to Resist Marginalization.”[ii] ii] Kim, Jung & Hsieh, Betina, 2022. And so, she said, ‘We'll consider her the Asian educator and not you.’” Jung Kim, Ph.D.,

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

ED Surge

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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At Moms for Liberty’s national summit, a singular focus on anti-trans issues

The Hechinger Report

At the first Moms for Liberty summit, in Tampa in 2022, attendees were invited to a well-choreographed unveiling of the dangers facing children in public school — and an urgent call to get involved. The us-versus-them framing is not new. As it got underway, some 300 people populated a hall with a capacity of 3,702. Well, we are all learning.

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