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Teach About Immigration

Zinn Education Project

economic and climate policies that have turned so many people into refugees. Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended books for pre-K–12 on immigration. Politicians are fear-mongering about an “invasion” at the Southern border. Mexico relations and current border and immigration issues.

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Why Colleges Should Pay Attention to Strikes by Their Most Precarious Teachers

ED Surge

So adjunct and other faculty unions have ramped up demands for economic justice. These alarming economic facts for most in adjunct life are in addition to their day-to-day struggles. Why are so many adjuncts mobilizing now? Adjuncts’ already precarious situation has worsened in the wake of the pandemic and continuing inflation.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

An avowed Marxist, deBoer argues unabashedly that he has set out “to demolish the entire meritocratic system and give [underprivileged] kids equal economic circumstances to begin with,” as a Wall Street Journal review of his book summarized. Related: What if public schools never reopen? Hirsch, Jr. Maybe they never will.

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OPINION: We must close college counseling’s equity gap

The Hechinger Report

The ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards and Competencies require counselors to “use multicultural and social justice theories to promote equity and access for all students.”. and is the author of the book How to Tutor Your Own Child (2011). Does this include calling out flagrant abuse and discriminatory practices?

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National Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call Highlights

Zinn Education Project

The Day of Action is cosponsored by more than 65 prominent racial and social justice organizations. There were over 4,000 instances of book bans in the first half of this school year, according to PEN America’s April 2024 report, Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Credit: Photo: Leslie Ovalle for The Hechinger Report.

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Foreign Language Classes are Becoming More Scarce

Digital Promise

In his book, “Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities,” historian Peter Stearns has written that Americans are “legendary” for being reluctant to learn another language. Equity, or social justice, is another important consideration. New Way of Thinking. They have also been shown to be cost-effective.

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