The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. Perhaps schools are simply more effective at advancing private purposes and we’re assigning them a role that they are ill-suited to play. The results have not rewarded our faith. Maybe they never will.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

A March 2016 study by Johns Hopkins University showed that black teachers are more likely to have higher expectations for their black students; for example, white teachers were almost 40 percent less likely than their black counterparts to expect black students to finish high school.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader? In truth, what concerns the right is young people learning to ask critical questions about our society, to organize for social change, and about the power of interracial solidarity. What book that looks honestly at U.S. What Can We Do? Many of them are not widely known.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

Jaden Huynh, then 16 and a sophomore at Arvada West High School in a suburb northwest of Denver, circled the dinner table plating goi — a Vietnamese salad — and spring rolls for her family’s Easter dinner and silently counted all the empty seats for cousins and extended relatives. Credit: Jake Holschuh for The Hechinger Report. You got in?’

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

New York City Deputy Mayor Richard Buery greets Chirlane McCray, the city’s first lady, at the awards ceremony and celebration in honor of Black History Month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on February 23, 2017. Look no further than KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First and Success Academies.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

middle school work on a Reconstruction lesson. To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

In South Africa, this is evident in a rapidly growing sector of “affordable” private schools that claim to level uneven terrain and interrupt poverty by fostering aspiring, upwardly mobile youth from township communities. These schools often frame their efforts in social justice terms.

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