ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For a long portion of their history, education schools didn’t have to think much about recruitment. “We We just said, ‘Here we are, come, we’re ready for you,’” says Stan Harward, the associate dean of Utah Valley University’s College of Education. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below.

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K-12 Advocacy History Education High School 94

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

For example, when presented with a tweet made from a liberal advocacy group, half of the students judged the tweet without bothering to click the link to read the source of information presented to advance the advocacy group’s claim. The research also asked students to judge the voracity of claims made on social media.

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Civics Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 111

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Right now the educators may be in one of the greatest exoduses in history. Educators are and will continue to leave in record numbers. Educators know that bargaining for the common good, working with other organizations and advocacy groups who think about all parts of our students' lives is what gives us hope.

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Advocacy Teaching History Education Public School 116

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. Area Educators for Social Justice has secured the following co-sponsors for this year, in addition to the co-host, the African American Civil War Museum and Memorial.

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Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time.

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Teaching Civics K-12 Social Science 123

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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Education Policy Education History Advocacy 137

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Al-Haq documents violations of the individual and collective rights of Palestinians in the OPT, irrespective of the identity of the perpetrator, and seeks to end such breaches by way of advocacy before national and international mechanisms and by holding the violators accountable.

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Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52