Advocacy Economics Humanities 
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 8, 2022
Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.
ED Surge
MARCH 20, 2024
Brian Johnsrud Global Head of Education Learning and Advocacy at Adobe The past two years have witnessed a notable surge in the use of artificial intelligence within education, marked by increased investment, deployment and integration into various educational practices. AI can’t replace teachers; it lacks the human connection.
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Studies Weekly
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Du Bois’ advocacy extended across the world through many Pan-African conferences and an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the suffering of Black Americans, according to the NAACP. He encouraged Black Americans to work as communities to create their own system of producers and consumers to fight against economic discrimination.
ED Surge
JUNE 17, 2022
The post-Civil War era then ushered in the advent of “Black codes,” described as laws that “criminalized every form of African American freedom and mobility, political power, [and] economic power.” Students are forming clubs, organizing sit-ins and walk-outs, and engaging in advocacy about all sorts of issues.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 10, 2018
Leave this field empty if you're human: In Mississippi, with its disproportionately large rural population, Head Start centers have a deep impact on children and families, according to Nita Norphlet-Thompson, the executive director for the Mississippi Head Start Association. “In
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Dyslexia is the most common reading disability.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 23, 2018
Leave this field empty if you're human: The Center for American Progress report found that 66 percent of children enrolled in Head Start in Mississippi live in rural areas, where 55 percent of Head Start child care centers are located. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.
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