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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. Since then, I’ve learned that these methods are merely tools to transform culture and spaces.

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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

ED Surge

Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging. Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance.

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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.” Of course, one class alone does not dismantle oppressive systems.

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Facing legal threats, colleges back off race-based programs

The Hechinger Report

After the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Creando Comunidad: Community Engaged Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Fellows program faced a complaint from the Equal Protection Project in January, it became just “Creando Comunidad.” Some experts argue that it remains a pressing national issue.

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Recognizing the Merit of our Peers: 2025 APSA Award Nominations Open | Deadline: February 12, 2025

Political Science Now

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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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

Instead, we rally around our shared values, such as community engagement and lifelong learning, which allows us to mobilize for social justice issues. Related: Defying political pushback, private colleges quietly enroll undocumented students. Related: Number of international students at U.S.

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College student voting is way up

The Hechinger Report

Even before they arrive, however, students are politically active, said Brittany Aydelotte, director of the school’s Community Engaged Learning Institute. They’re really coming in with much more knowledge about social justice issues,” Aydelotte said. Social media has a huge impact.