The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that. It means that each student works on projects with peers whose cultural context is different from their own.

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ED Surge

JUNE 3, 2022

Perhaps most critically, edtech also has potential to provide children with a personalized learning experience tailored to their own context, interests, and abilities—something that a new UNESCO report calls a human right. This type of shift however, will require the edtech sector to undergo a dramatic culture shift.

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Pedagogy to Share

MAY 17, 2023

From the European Wergeland Centre , Marianne Haug spoke about educating for democracy and human rights. We need to consider the cultural expectations of our learners and how their first language influences their thought processes (see Kaplan, 1966 ). We can use more transparent language – both written and oral.

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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. In addition, graduation ceremonies comprise a major part of a school’s culture; they differentiate one school from the next and establish norms and values.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Taken to the extreme, when edtech willfully makes product decisions that are not in the best interest of educators and their students, it only serves to contribute to the brokenness of a system that too often fails at providing the basic human right of education to learners across the world.

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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. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. It will cost $200K” to get a law degree, she said.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As the American Academy of Arts and Science’s 2013 “The Heart of the Matter” report observes, connecting these fields is necessary to solve the world’s biggest problems such as “the provision of clean air and water, food, health, energy, universal education, human rights, and the assurance of physical safety.”.

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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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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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Dr. Shannon Doak

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The infographic that highlights the 65 jobs least likely to be automated, taken from The US Career Institute really drives home the importance of skills that only humans can offer—things like emotional intelligence, empathy, creativity, and cultural competence. Language and Literature Courses: Explore texts from diverse cultures.

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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. College Track shares my belief, and my culture’s belief, that education is a fundamental human right.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Responses usually include: a religion, a race, an ethnicity, a culture and a country. Others separate out Israel as a legal issue or a human rights issue. I regularly offer a course at my university called Teaching the Holocaust: History and Memory. I begin this class by asking my students how they would define Judaism.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

We must reimagine schools’ goals and their learning culture, and invent new approaches for learning both new and traditional subjects and topics. These new skills and knowledge are the new fundamental requisites for K-12 studies, college studies, 21 st century jobs and ensuring lifelong earning in the digital innovation economy.

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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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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations. Solitary confinement is one of the most obvious and ubiquitous state-sanctioned practices of carceral dehumanization.

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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.

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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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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

In her book Humanly Possible , Sarah Bakewell writes about being human as culture, morality, science, optimism, and more. Bakewell opens with a musing on the Roman playwright Terence’s line about humans. “I It emphasizes the idea that despite our differences, we all share a fundamental humanity that binds us together.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While Wikipedia’s breadth and depth are staggering, it still consists of glaring content gaps, and no where is this more evident than in historically underrepresented areas, such as women, minorities, and non-Western peoples and cultures. They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia.

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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.

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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. We overcame egregious cultural errors (repeated in cultures around the world). We learned from humanity's mistakes and we (finally) chose a more skillful path.

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Pedagogy Human Rights Humanities Cultures 40

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. We overcame egregious cultural errors (repeated in cultures around the world). We learned from humanity's mistakes and we (finally) chose a more skillful path.

Pedagogy 40

Pedagogy Human Rights Humanities Cultures 40

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings. The Portland (Oregon) study group of early childhood educators assessed their home visitation questions to make them more culturally relevant.

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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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Concluding Thoughts: Towards a Culture of Care Law 30490 the Law of the Elderlyin Peru stipulates that the countrys long-term care facilities should provide their residents with comprehensive care depending on their needs. For them, its safety, sure, but for us, its humiliating.

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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. Even using their own experience doesn’t protect teachers from attacks.

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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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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

During a brief visit to Iraq in the heat of summer 2023, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared , “The era of global boiling has indeed begun.” Credit: Murtaja Lateef Souk al-Shorja, Baghdad’s oldest market, summer 2023. It was an assertion that no Baghdadi would dispute.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 31, 2024

Embed from Getty Images In addition to Freedom Schools, the civil rights activists (most in their late teens or early 20s) organized a Freedom Theater ; a Medical Committee for Human Rights ; a legal committee ; a motor fleet ; primary elections; a WATTS communication line; a system of daily check-ins to ensure everyone was safe; and much more.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights where Abalajon served as a translator. This collection transports readers to varied localities, enclaves, cultures, cities, and battlefields where injustice and oppression are common enemiesand words the firepower.

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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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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. who are not white. and in its schools. Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D., What Can Education Leaders Do?

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Our world has shrunk due to the spread and influence of popular culture and branding; we are more connected whether physically through higher speed extensive transportation or digitally through the internet. Not just between cultures and groups but also harmony within. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’.

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Human Rights Geography Humanities Controversial Topics 40

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The project investigates how communities accommodate differences in culturally resonant ways and asks what everyday practices and justifications they draw on to maintain civil relations and avoid conflict and violence. The sign (in Hebrew) reads: “There is no academia without democracy. (No?)” We can and must do more.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

I tried to use it as an opportunity for the students, to get them to care about history and about human rights around the world.”. Some school districts prioritize students’ knowledge about the Civil Rights Movement in other creative ways. It changed me as an individual,” she said. “I

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