The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I know now that this question was meant kindly — and was informed by the older generation’s desire to see their children enjoy a return on investment (ROI) on a college education similar to what they themselves experienced as first- and second-generation college-goers. College degrees changed the trajectories of their lives.

Humanities 122

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Geogramblings

JULY 13, 2024

A native of Middlesbrough, Stephen’s experiences growing up in the 1980s during a time of significant economic change have shaped his commitment to social justice and his belief in the power of education to drive positive change. ClimateAmbassadors #Education [link]

Social Justice 58

Social Justice Geography Leadership Economics 58

Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

The Zinn Education Project provides free resources to teach outside the textbook about the Tulsa Massacre and the continuing history of institutionalized racism and displacement. I wanted them to connect the current economic struggles of people of color by staying alert to these dynamics from the past. Here is a list of some of them.

Teaching 111

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. But what if he’s right?

Education 119

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ED Surge

JUNE 16, 2023

Adjunct demands were not often treated with the same urgency by traditional academic organizations, such as the American Association of University Professors, National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, who mostly represented tenured and tenure-track faculty. Adjuncts were looking for more strident champions.

Social Justice 125

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The 40-mile region stretches from the red rock cliffs and geothermal pools of Glenwood Springs to the luxury resort town of Aspen and is marked by wide social and economic disparity. El Busesito operates four buses that travel to five neighborhoods to provide bilingual preschool education for nearly 100 children in the community.

Social Justice 107

Social Justice Economics Tradition Education 107

Anthropology News

APRIL 16, 2024

This headline provoked intense conversation among youth in a language and social justice course I developed with three multilingual educators at a nonprofit organization (Institute for the Future, IFF). As students noted, tourism jobs required English without paying minimum wage and were marked by exploitative labor conditions.

Social Justice 52

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It not only scuttled our trip, but both the pandemic and the economic fallout hit our majority minority students hard. Related: When it comes to liberal arts education, online learning changes only the tools. The pandemic, which hit New York City just a few weeks before our departure in April, was not part of our plan.

Civic Engagement 144

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

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.

Social Justice 145

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

Legacy admission also appears to be withstanding the resurgence of the racial and social justice movement following the killing of George Floyd. Department of Education. Rachel Fishman, deputy director for research, higher education program, New America. And legacy is one of those things not based on merit.”.

Social Justice 117

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

With the debt problem for black students in particular reaching urgent levels, The Education Trust and The Hechinger Report have partnered on a series of op-eds to amplify the voices of people studying solutions to the black student debt crisis. ” African Americans heavily rely upon higher education as the gateway to upward mobility.

Social Justice 116

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As colleges continue to close or merge — more than 60 in the last five years, and 14 just since the start of the pandemic — a growing chorus of voices is raising alarms that this is taking more than just an emotional and economic toll on students, alumni, employees and communities. And they don’t see a lot of [other] places like that.”

Social Justice 101

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. While my digital experiences trained me for these interactions, this frustration fuels me as a cyber educator.

Social Justice 98

Social Justice Lesson Plan Cultures Private School 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

As young people, families and educators near the end of yet another hectic pandemic school year, new research studying the early impact of remote learning offers a sobering look at experiences and outcomes, including interrupted and incomplete learning. Young people and educators have been telling us what they need.

Social Justice 83

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

“You have to get good grades, you have to find a way to do the academics, but also become leaders,” said Alleyne, the energetic co-founder and CEO of TeenSHARP , a nonprofit that prepares students from underrepresented backgrounds for higher education. “In Fight for social justice.” In your schools, do something!

Heritage 125

Heritage Social Justice High School Political Science 125

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Emily House, executive director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation. “It It’s a real barrier,” said Zora Mulligan, the state’s commissioner of higher education.) Laura Perna, executive director, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Economics 143

Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Rather, it’s a systematic, sweeping inequity that pervades our country’s education system and separates the “have” districts from the have-nots. Inadequate educational support is nothing new. Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students.

Social Justice 111

Social Justice Tutoring Cultures Leadership 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

The course is part of the public university’s African and African Diaspora Studies master’s program, whose previous graduates have gone on to get doctorates or jobs in public policy, diplomacy, law, criminal justice, education, public health and journalism. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

Anthropology 141

Anthropology Social Science Sociology Humanities 141

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In partnership with the Center for Global Education at Asia Society , the League of Innovative Schools has launched innovation study tours –– a learning opportunity focused on deeper learning and equity. Education at Asia Society. Tony Jackson Vice president for the Center for Global Education at Asia Society.

Middle School 74

Middle School Social Justice Cultures Professional Development 74

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

. Service, liberal education, being responsive to society’s needs, and a commitment to social justice: the tenets of a Jesuit education look a lot more like the innovative future than some might think. higher education. Providing education for adult learners is consistent with this original impulse.

Social Justice 84

Social Justice Civics Tradition Humanities 84

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. Once again, we invite educators, students, parents, and community members to rally across the country and pledge to #TeachTruth and defend LGBTQ+ rights on June 8, 2024.

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

One measure of the health of higher education is total enrollment. million fewer students enrolled in higher-education programs than there were in the fall of 2011. million fewer students enrolled in higher-education programs than there were in the fall of 2011. So what other factors are at work in this educational demise?

Social Justice 79

Social Justice Critical Thinking Economics Education 79

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Faculty and administrators know that, in principle, if you are never asked to examine, let alone defend, your beliefs, your education will be deficient. That’s one of the key reasons we educators value diversity, including intellectual diversity: people with different points of view make you think about what you believe. Weekly Update.

Social Justice 62

Social Justice Humanities Cultures Economics 62

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Largely unnoticed federal figures show that, even as their finances have become more and more strained and their student populations have declined, public and private higher education institutions have added 41,446 degree or certificate programs since 2012. New programs are often tied to social, demographic and economic trends.

Social Justice 105

Social Justice Economics Government Humanities 105

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 18, 2023

Alex Shevrin Venet Alex Shevrin Venet is someone whose work has dramatically expanded my own understanding of trauma-informed education, and my hope is that in sharing her approach with you, it will expand yours as well. ” She sees the most powerful trauma-informed education as working on three different levels: It RESPONDS to trauma.

Teaching 130

Teaching Pedagogy Classroom Management Social Justice 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino. Sign up for our newsletter.

Charter School 84

Charter School Psychology K-12 Project-Based Learning 84

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Closing this educational divide matters for individual students and for the U.S. The label from the federal Department of Education is meant to recognize colleges with significant Latinx populations. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Social Justice 109

Social Justice High School Tutoring Advocacy 109

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

Our study documents some of the ways that the historical processes of colonization and displacement are reproduced in the United States, specifically through the education system. On the surface, the purpose of higher education is to support all students in their growth academically, socially and economically.

Anthropology 60

Anthropology Social Justice History Geography 60

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. We could play Fantasy Geography.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2018

Related: Can you steal an education? If Stein’s private eyes can prove a student lives outside district boundaries, that’s one less student the district has to pay to educate. “I Higher Education. Related: How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice. “It Totally our kid.”.

K-12 75

K-12 Social Justice Economics Humanities 75

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

If, after a natural disaster decimated a city, I proposed to a governor or a school board that they replace a significant portion of a majority- white teaching corps with black teachers because doing so would potentially confer educational and social benefits, I’d probably be denounced as a racist and publicly excoriated.

Education 145

Education Social Justice Economics Elementary School 145

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Sanaa Sharrieff, a mother based in one of North Carolina’s largest school districts, Guilford County, is certain that where her son was born limited his education. The education system has begun to think of itself as a pipeline, from pre-K through to the workforce. The result?

EdTech 102

EdTech Education Social Justice Advocacy 102

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

s words to attack anti-racist education, focusing almost exclusively on MLK’s “I have a dream” declaration. Stanford University MLK Research and Education Institute. Stanford University MLK Research and Education Institute “ The Sanctification — and Sanitization — of Martin Luther King Jr. ” Zinn Education Project.

Social Justice 52

Social Justice History Economics Tradition 52

Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Researchers at the Modern Language Association recently found that colleges lost 651 foreign language programs from 2013 to 2016 – dramatically more than the one foreign language programs that higher education lost between 2009 and 2013. Equity, or social justice, is another important consideration. New Way of Thinking.

K-12 74

K-12 Social Justice Elementary School Cultures 74

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Photo: EL Education. BOSTON — In 1963, Greg Farrell, an assistant dean of admissions at Princeton University, learned that an organization rooted in the teachings of a German educator was about to launch a wilderness training school in Colorado. “I Greg Farrell, founder of Expeditionary Learning Schools (now EL Education).

K-12 49

K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 49

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. These schools often frame their efforts in social justice terms. Some aspirations are valorized, while others are not.

Pedagogy 74

Pedagogy Anthropology Geography Private School 74

Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the State Education Department had rejected 35% of the social studies textbooks submitted for review because of leftist content. The DeSantis administration objects to any references to “social justice” or negative references to capitalism. history and world history courses.

Social Studies 40

Social Studies Social Justice K-12 Civics 40