Advocacy Cultures Education Policy 
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. The students.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 14, 2020
You can’t just stick these kids in the corner,” said Elena Silva, director of PreK-12 for the Education Policy Program at New America, a Washington, D.C., based think tank that has studied both special and bilingual education. Elena Silva, director of PreK-12 for the Education Policy Program at New America.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 24, 2016
When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. Thousands of educators from across the country are in San Antonio, Texas, this week for the annual iNACOL conference that seeks to explain and promote these methods to a broader spectrum of schools.
Dangerously Irrelevant
JULY 9, 2015
Midwest educators are doubly nice, both because of the culture of where we live and because of our profession. Roark is correct about our tone but I will also note that educators’ current policy advocacy is not working. Politics often requires a bolder voice than we educators are accustomed to exercising.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 10, 2021
We know that these obstacles exist, and we haven’t addressed them,” said Wil Del Pilar, vice president for higher education policy, practice and research at the Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping students of color and low-income students.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2024
Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 29, 2021
Kids were busting into Zoom meetings across the country at that point in the pandemic, but for Kelley, whose job is to help design California’s statewide education policy, and her female colleagues, the situation held special resonance. “We When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture.
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