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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

ED Surge

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. As a veteran educator with over 20 years in the classroom, I’ve seen the consequences of teacher turnover.

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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

Anthropology News

Kimberlé Crenshaw stated that in its original formulation, Intersectionality worked to expose “ how single-axis thinking undermines legal thinking, disciplinary knowledge production, and struggles for social justice.” I am also the kind of person not traditionally welcomed in the academy. Many people in U.S.

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How Schools Can Use Cultural Performing Arts to Reimagine Community-Engaged Learning

ED Surge

While student engagement continues to be a significant issue for classrooms across the country, I believe the performing arts can be an opportunity for schools to reimagine community engagement in schools and get students back on track. First, school leaders and educators must prioritize community partnerships.

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Student Voice: ‘He will only be in the White House a handful of years. The rest of us will be together for much longer than that’

The Hechinger Report

Related: Will education unite or divide us? Instead, we rally around our shared values, such as community engagement and lifelong learning, which allows us to mobilize for social justice issues. During the campaign, all I paid attention to were his rants against immigrants, Mexicans, refugees, Muslims, and women.

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College student voting is way up

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report Sixty-six percent of college students voted in 2020 , up 14 percentage points from 2016, according to the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement at Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy and Higher Education. Social media has a huge impact.

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Facing legal threats, colleges back off race-based programs

The Hechinger Report

Black, professor of law at the University of South Carolina and expert in education law and policy, said that campuses that are halting or altering offerings may be doing so unnecessarily. “We don’t accept that having racially discriminatory barriers is just no big deal or is not actually depriving, not actually harming someone,” he said.