The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions. history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. Karen Kong, 16, has unwavering pride in her Chinese American heritage, rooted in her sense of family and honor.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But just before the pandemic, she says she was approached by FreedomWorks, an advocacy group funded by the Koch brothers, big political donors, and associated with the “tea party” movement in favor of libertarian ideas. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms. Africans were skilled laborers, mathematicians and astronomers.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

And then when you go into more affluent communities or communities where there's stronger advocacy, you're gonna see projects and you're gonna see stories and you're gonna see kids sharing their own voices. “And we're gonna see, unfortunately, a lot of spreadsheets that have numbers and yellow and red cells,” Gonzalez says.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

. * * * My most recent connection with a cultural center occurred over a year ago when BSC social studies teacher candidates worked with the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center (UGRR) during an informal service-learning project. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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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 believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Hall’s status meant that when she was earning her degrees, she didn’t qualify for financial assistance designed for Native students.

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MPSA

JUNE 11, 2021

Canadian students improved the articles on the Department of Canadian Heritage as well as Open data in Canada. Students have improved topics ranging from the Constitution of Tennessee to the Idaho Military Department. They’ve also tackled subjects on a more national scale, such as the 2020 United States Census.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

The program, called the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, is run by a national nonprofit, Active Minds, which advocates for college students mental health. In the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, she encourages students to think about what their communities need and what kinds of support they and their peers might benefit from.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

“It is treated as this extra piece that is not a central part of education,” said Amanda Seewald, president-elect of the Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies, a legislative advocacy group. This fall there are five such language sections at Wesleyan.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Gist, who runs the Migration Heritage Foundation, which documents the county’s history and provides aid to students, said the number of teenagers in the county applying for a fellowship to help cover textbook costs went from 16 last year to three this spring. Gist knows the disconnection comes at grave cost for students.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. We often use catch-all acronyms and shorthand like “POC,” “BIPOC,” and “Black and brown people” to describe experiences of discrimination and oppression of people in the U.S. who are not white.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

A Hispanic Heritage Month event that Grimes started in Russellville High School has now grown into a big districtwide celebration , where students learn about different cultures and traditions, perform dances, read celebrated authors and research historical figures.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

based advocacy organization lobbying for anti-hunger programs. The rise in hunger comes down to two elements: need and access, said Kelley McDonough, a senior program manager for No Kid Hungry, an anti-hunger advocacy group. School meals are just as important to students’ ability to succeed in school as textbooks and transportation.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

Project 2025, the conservative policy handbook organized by the Heritage Foundation, which the Trump administration has been following closely, calls for eliminating Head Start altogether. I think its terrible, Dill said. I just cant imagine.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 10, 2025

Language restrictions, grant terminations and the cap on IDCsrepresent a direct attack on science including OUR science, on scholarship, rigorous health research for public health benefit, and the nonprofit science/social science advocacy world. The Heritage Foundation. ” Washington Post , Feb. Gans, Paul, and S. Feldman, J.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In 2016, the right-wing Heritage Foundation proposed turning the BIE into an education savings account, or ESA, which would grant families a portion of their childs per-pupil funding to spend on private school tuition, home-school supplies and other educational expenses. That same year, the late Arizona Sen. public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller launched his chief advocacy arm for school choice, the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, housed at Marquette University, more than two decades ago. It’s a strategy Fuller views as a necessary contradiction, but that others say has undermined his credibility. The trade-off. secretary of education.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members. ORGANIZING MILITIAS Most of the militia members I met in Virginia were self-identified men of Western, Northern, and Eastern European heritage.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Meg Simons, digital strategy manager at the progressive advocacy group People for the American Way, said that the strong showing of protestors in Philadelphia so motivated many older members of her 40-year-old organization that they started Grandparents For Truth to counter Moms for Liberty.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The proposal would “help address the shortage of child care through smart removal of cost-­increasing red tape,” testified Elizabeth Patton, state director of Americans for Prosperity Kansas, a conservative advocacy group.

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