The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

Black Student Union students say the school tells them durags perpetuate gang culture, but they say the durag ban unfairly continues the criminalization of black men. Board of Education of Topeka , which overruled the “separate but equal” doctrine that enshrined legal segregation of the races. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Students need to be able to express themselves; the freedom to do so is not only a question of their intellectual development but also one of human rights. They know their schools; plus, education is meant to help students grow, to help them be free-thinking citizens. School kids may well rebel at the rules.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

But they seem to miss the most important education of all: how to relate their specialization to others in an increasingly interconnected world. The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. And how can educators and institutions change things?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2018

It is also a country that, culturally, places a high value on education. The need for and importance of education was so well understood, it seemed as much a basic right as good health or personal safety. Related: Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations. We were the lucky ones.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Her research examines the conditions for justice during internal armed conflict, human rights prosecutions, transitional justice in post-communist Eastern European states, gender equality in post-conflict settings, and justice efforts in democracies. Research interests include social movements, social justice and cultural genocide.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In a world where AI and automation are transforming industries left and right, it’s becoming more obvious that our education systems need to catch up. If the future is changing, our approach to education has to change with it, so the next generation is equipped to thrive in this tech-driven world.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

I tell her about what I do and how my company addresses society’s need to educate citizens for millions of unfilled jobs — in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) jobs, as well as jobs in computing. she wondered, adding, “so my daughter needs a whole new type of education, right?!”. Are teachers going to agree?”

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent. These efforts have been built without the warmth of tinto, the stick of hot plastic chairs, or the pulse of broader human presence.

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

Natural rights are rights that are considered to be universal human rights that are granted by nature or God, not granted by society or government and thus not to be revoked by society or government. They are an intrinsic part of human existence. They are not a privilege limited to certain individuals or groups.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Helaine Blumenthal, Wiki Education For the past several years, MPSA has been partnering with Wiki Education to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of topics related to Political Science. Wiki Education supports faculty at institutions of higher education in the U.S. The results of this partnership are truly astounding.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

He believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression. Eventually, Du Bois moved to Ghana to work on the Encyclopedia Africana , an ambitious project to compile everything known about the history, accomplishments, and cultures of African people. After Brown v.

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Maitri Learning

JUNE 15, 2023

In Montessori, we are instilling the human right of freedom coupled with inner-discipline from the first days of life. Freedom itself is founded in the underlying idea that humans are essentially good. That when given the right causes and conditions (like a supportive environment, loving caregivers, education, etc.),

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Maitri Learning

JUNE 15, 2023

In Montessori, we are instilling the human right of freedom coupled with inner-discipline from the first days of life. Freedom itself is founded in the underlying idea that humans are essentially good. That when given the right causes and conditions (like a supportive environment, loving caregivers, education, etc.),

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Each year, the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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Geogramblings

APRIL 18, 2023

Doomed to have their eyes shut, to forever be asleep In a dark valley where no sun can penetrate Forever bound by the phobia that is the fad of the time The talk of the landlocked town with a broken cultural infrastructure The hot, dense air muffles all but the loudest group-think chorus Helped onto pedestals screaming “We’re being cancelled!”

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

Pure objectivity is a fallacy: Lived experience, cultural contexts, and the particularities of each case all impact and inform the work of forensic scientists. Cultural anthropologists , archaeologists , and biological anthropologists have included these actions in their scholarship for decades.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. And so, she said, ‘We'll consider her the Asian educator and not you.’” who are not white.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist, I often find myself in settings where discussing Palestine, or even mentioning my identity as a Palestinian American, presents more challenges than when I worked in the field of human rights and law. It is what inspired them to pursue a career in education. Do you mean Israel?”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Many Mississippi residents say their schools did not teach them important civil rights topics. Some blame their teachers, some blame the textbooks, some blame the state for not prioritizing public education funding. Educators suggest books for students at that grade level may be more up to date because 11th-graders must pass a U.S.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I cannot hope to cover the myriad of issues in any detail with any justice, so this post is going to be a mixture of personal opinion (mostly as a member of the LGBTQ+ community), some things to for educators to think about, and some signposting to various articles and opinions. Stick with it. Read, think, reflect, share.

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Pedagogy to Share

MAY 17, 2023

GatherEd means a chance to grapple with the complexity of education in a changing global reality, collaboratively unpacking terms like multiculturalism and multilingualism. I hope we manage to share some of that richness with teachers struggling to provide respectful and caring education for their unique heterogeneous student populations.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Educators and students critical of Israel’s war on Gaza face censorship, harassment, and dismissal. Israel’s legislature is currently considering a bill requiring the Council for Higher Education to fire professors who show “support for terrorism,” a coded phrase often interpreted to include criticisms of the state.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy Devos at the Teacher of the Year ceremony at the White House. Responses usually include: a religion, a race, an ethnicity, a culture and a country. First, the Education Department suggests that Judaism is a religion and also an ethnicity. May 2, 2018, Washington D.C. Most of the students aren’t Jewish.

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Civics U

JANUARY 27, 2022

These systems will be reviewed by generally applying the rubrics of government power and elections; property and economics; and human rights. The United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor 2020 report on Russia’s human rights practices identifies a number of “significant human rights issues”.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

Bunche Award for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism Recipient: Melvin Rogers, Brown University Title: The Darkened Light of Faith (Princeton University Press) Robert A.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 31, 2024

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, a voting rights campaign with lessons for today. Freedom Summer was organized by activists in the South to draw national attention to the white supremacist terror that denied African Americans their basic rights to education, fair labor, voting, land, assembly, healthcare, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The story dominated headlines for more than a year, cost New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez his job and opened a new chapter in the culture wars. “Heather Has Two Mommies” has once again become a lightning rod in culture wars: Credit: Candlewick Press/Penguin Random House. Fast forward to 2022.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In some circles, the use of capitalization for “Deaf” and “Disabled” indicates a cultural identity rather than a medical diagnosis. At the time, they did not know the whereabouts of the children and staff. ( In this essay, I do not capitalize these terms unless the people and organizations I am referring to self-identify as such. )

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2019

candidate in education in a joint program between San Diego State and Claremont Graduate University, was 12 when she started crossing the San Ysidro port of entry, one of the world’s busiest, to go to middle school. With one foot in each country, these students have the linguistic and cultural capacity to navigate both the U.S.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Within this book, I contributed a chapter on ‘Diversity and Discrimination’ through my work with Diverse Educators. The book also covers topics such as engaging parents/carers, sex education, and media literacy. Supporting those falls under education, health care and perhaps social care. Why are these important?

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

While many education groups provide resources for teaching about the crisis as a “conflict” rooted in antisemitism and Islamophobia, that sole emphasis is misleading. As educators, we must help our students make historical explanations for today’s violence. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

That’s the main finding of a new study conducted by YouthTruth , a national nonprofit that conducts student surveys on educational issues. He went on to say, “Part of an education is learning how to deal with mean people.”. Related: Don’t ever conflate disaster recovery with education reform. Higher Education.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While these trends have been underway in the subfields of global health and economic development for some time, increasingly similar demands are being made for the incorporation of SBS into the fields of democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG). In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Bayard Rustin Education Bldg. Session 1: Field Trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture with U.S. John Lewis (D), Georgia, is actually one of the greatest civil rights leaders of our time. Please read “ The Mis-Education of the Negro ” by Carter Godwin Woodson, the founder of Black History Month.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The mural, which stretches the length of a football field, intersperses student artwork with text from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was inspired by a group of eighth graders who, in December 2012, just months after Yousafzai’s shooting, had attended a human rights conference in Canada.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Earlier this year, state lawmakers proposed a repeal, eliciting more than 1,000 letters to the House Education Committee. Kati Preston, Holocaust survivor who lobbied for New Hampshire’s Holocaust education law Preston speaks frankly about the politicization of history instruction. It’s the sheep that allowed Hitler to rise.”

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