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How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice

The Hechinger Report

Tyndall turned down a bevy of offers from colleges in other states to attend Rutgers’ Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), which brings together dozens of students each year for a residential program that combines rigorous academics with a social-justice focus. “I Eventually, he’d like to serve as either the U.S.

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The importance of difficult conversations in U.S. classrooms: Teaching about the migrant crisis

The Hechinger Report

Conversations about food, clothing and language can be the sum total of what they know about just a few cultures. She brings her class together through Socratic seminars, debates and technology, and she encourages conversations about topics that many consider “too hard” for fifth-graders.

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Inside one school’s efforts to bridge the divide between white teachers and students of color

The Hechinger Report

But for now, it’s focused on training existing educators to become more “culturally responsive,” representing diverse cultures and frames of reference in their teaching. But it also shows how hard it can be to change the culture of a school — and the mindsets of its teachers.

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TEACHER VOICE: ‘Which police officer will see me not as an educator or a scientist, but as a suspect?’

The Hechinger Report

“Eventually, I gained confidence to sit in the front row of department lectures and seminars, taking notes and publicly asking questions. universities, they often experience culture shock. Eventually, I gained confidence to sit in the front row of department lectures and seminars, taking notes and publicly asking questions.

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2024 Annual Meeting

Society for Classical Studies

You can apply to volunteer using the following link: Volunteer at the Annual Meeting Update 10/4/2023: To view the Program Outline for the 2024 Annual Meeting, please visit the following page: Program Outline This is the schedule of SCS paper sessions, panels, seminars, and workshops at the 2024 Annual Meeting.

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Leadership for social justice: Class update 2

Dangerously Irrelevant

This is my second update on my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership for Social Justice. As I said in my last post about this class , my six students have been co-creating the class with me… We have continued to approach the class through a variety of social justice lenses. Related Posts.

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In Memoriam: Sharon James

Society for Classical Studies

For many scholars, Professor James was the first person to introduce them to issues of social justice in research: how even the choice of a topic can be political, how to work with what we have and to try to learn more about what we do not, and why it even matters in the first place.