Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d have a variety of Social Studies simulations and games available to us. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers. We could play Fantasy Geography.

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Political Science Now

MAY 2, 2024

She has been involved in many civic engagement opportunities throughout the Triad area during her college career. During her college career, Laila has contributed to public policy research, particularly in environmental justice and urban planning in disenfranchised communities.

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MARCH 29, 2024

study group , made up of 14 educators from Brent Elementary (ECE–5), wanted “to help educators reflect on their practice and to identify resources that center our Black students in our classrooms — with an emphasis on what is taught and how classrooms are set up to help students engage in civic life.” The ideas above are suggestions.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Or march to a local civic building. 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. A teacher was the MC, the memorial director (who is also a SNCC veteran) spoke, and then teachers read their pledges.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. How can English teachers discuss Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain” or Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” without considering race and social justice?

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Or march to a local civic building. 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. See photos and stories about the D.C. events in 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. Music and chants are a plus. Photo by Dean Hesse, 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

However, we’re convinced that the success of this class is owed to our ability to build a community based on nurturing shared interests in politics and social justice – along with deep reservoirs of trust nurtured during two months of pre-pandemic, in-person classes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report Social-emotional learning – aimed at fostering a wide assortment of soft skills from empathy and listening to anger management and goal-setting – has been one of the hottest trends in education over the past decade, and more recently, a new flashpoint in the culture wars.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 2, 2024

The Ford Foundation went on to fund her subsequent Mobilization, Change and Political and Civic Engagement Project. In all these many endeavors, Professor Cathy J.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

SEL Programs Support Students to Be Better Friends and Citizens Our review of SEL teased out the differences between prosociality and civic behaviors and it turns out, the distinction matters. Civic behaviors and attitudes support the broader community.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the State Education Department had rejected 35% of the social studies textbooks submitted for review because of leftist content. The DeSantis administration objects to any references to “social justice” or negative references to capitalism. history and world history courses.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Queer artivistas create spaces that intentionally center webs of communal enjoyment, and social justice, many times queering individualist normative neoliberal understandings of (self-)care. This famous Argentinian song speaks of the beauty and strength found in Latin Americas vast diversity of cultures and nature.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Most importantly, I want the course content to be relevant to their lives as future teachers, and I want them to see themselves as civic and political actors. 6; Love, 2019). From this perspective, the focus on skills, such as describing how the text conveys meaning, supports analysis over simply stating opinions.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 2, 2024

Married for 40 plus years, they lived in North Kingsville, Ohio, and continued to support social justice causes with a focus on education. Prentiss served in the Ohio State Senate and Charney was a teacher and labor organizer. When we launched the Prentiss Charney Fellowship, C. shared the following quotes and stories about her life.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Thats why legislators in Texas have outlawed one of the traditional staples of the civics classroom: the write your legislator assignment. The Truth About Teaching for Equity and Social Justice We reject the universalizing, color-blind posture of these laws and challenge the canard that to acknowledge race is itself racist.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

That’s because few funders are serious about social justice. What makes an organization serious about social justice? One of the planks of NCPR’s framework is to increase the number of serious social justice funders. “A There are other ways to see if a foundation is serious about social justice.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Ithiel de Sola Pool Award for a scholar exploring the implications of research on issues of politics in a broad range of scholarship pursued by Ithiel de Sola Pool Barbara Sinclair Lecture for achievement in promoting understanding of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Tisch College of Civic Life. “It Young voters had “a decisive impact” on Senate races in 2022 in battleground states including Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or CIRCLE, which is also based at Tufts. Social media has a huge impact.

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