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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

We are fighting over whether or not political parties that are in control of state government, in control of Congress, can control higher education,” Cantwell said. On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”) Credit: Laura Pappano for the Hechinger Report For Prof.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Without a doubt we would be living on Pinterest since it has dozens of pinboards – and tens of thousands of pins – related to history , including awesome resource sets from the Stanford History Education Group. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom. government as well.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

Earlier in the school year, a white student came to the office of the Black Student Union, a space it shares with the student government, and told her she had no right to be there. “It That to me is how you fully reconcile,” said McNeil, a member of the university’s student government who was born in Grenada, Mississippi.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. And she says while some of these schools are doing better than others, she’d like to see the federal government hold them all accountable under the so-called Gainful Employment Rule. Kirk: That’s Josipa Roksa.

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Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. And so Ron DeSantis is constantly beating his chest about American freedom.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. And I’m not even sure she actually was asked; it wasn’t a leading question.