The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. An avowed Marxist, deBoer argues unabashedly that he has set out “to demolish the entire meritocratic system and give [underprivileged] kids equal economic circumstances to begin with,” as a Wall Street Journal review of his book summarized. Maybe they never will.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. The ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards and Competencies require counselors to “use multicultural and social justice theories to promote equity and access for all students.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

On the surface, the purpose of higher education is to support all students in their growth academically, socially and economically. history of violent and destructive military interventions in Southeast Asia and its subsequent refugee outcomes. Cold War history. The Anglicized spelling of the HMoob ethnonym is “Hmong.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. government as well. We could play Fantasy Geography.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

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 Photo: Matt Krupnick for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Will history repeat? These programs started because of political pressures, and the political pressures are no longer there.”

Anthropology 140

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

If this is our chance to reimagine schools , remembering this history and prioritizing the protection of the black teaching force will be essential to create better places for black students to learn. Related: Teachers could retire in droves by the time schools reopen. According to 2015 research by Adam C.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 17, 2024

As history shows , anti-drug policies have often targeted Black drug users, who are seen as less deserving than White drug users of sympathy , help , and the benefit of the doubt. Most active harm reduction organizations are social justice organizations. for a decade. Neither is the case.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Raoul Contreras, a professor who leads the Latino studies program housed in the minority studies department, notes that in the last year, the school cut a Puerto Rican history class he taught. Anel Chavez, a recent graduate of Indiana University Northwest, picks up an application for the school’s business and economics graduate program.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Mississippi teenagers Jashun Griffith and Trevion Williams know more than the basics about their state’s civil rights history, but they said they didn’t learn most of what they know in school. The theme of the five-day event was “Hope for Our Future: From Weeping to Working for Justice for Our Children.”. CLINTON, Tenn.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

Books A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis Be a King: Dr. Books A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s This Day In History Dec.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue. Reilly’s first day is Aug.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

At Western Middle, 60 percent of the roughly 700 students are Black, 11 percent are Hispanic or Latino, and 70 percent are considered economically disadvantaged. Paul, Minnesota, native, studied Spanish and history at Marquette University in Wisconsin. The students Amia was about to meet online were particularly vulnerable. Amia, a St.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

New York City Deputy Mayor Richard Buery greets Chirlane McCray, the city’s first lady, at the awards ceremony and celebration in honor of Black History Month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on February 23, 2017. Photo: Andy Katz/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire. Loeb is white and Buery is black. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This course is an introduction to the histories of African Americans for those who talk favorably about “departed” black heroes like Ben Carson but find it difficult to recognize a black president. Session 1: Field Trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture with U.S. Frederick Douglass, ca. Spring 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For much of its history, Antioch was ahead of its counterparts in more enviable ways, including its legacy of promoting social justice. “A a professor of economics and management at Albion College who has studied the Antioch story. A hippy school,” its own students, alumni and faculty call it fondly. Vicki Baker.

Economics 81

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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. These schools often frame their efforts in social justice terms.

Pedagogy 72

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The Day of Action is cosponsored by more than 65 prominent racial and social justice organizations. The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At Duke, he is the founder (and sometimes director) of the Modeling Economic and Political Systems Focus program (MESS) and the Decision Science program. Her research focuses on early modern political theory and the history of International Relations Thought. Pablo Beramendi is Professor of Political Science at Duke University.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. My support for vouchers,” he said, “didn’t have a damn thing to do with free-market principles … it was a social justice issue to me.”. The trade-off.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 2, 2024

Married for 40 plus years, they lived in North Kingsville, Ohio, and continued to support social justice causes with a focus on education. Now, I can say improve the lives of African Americans, but I’m real clear on the history. When we launched the Prentiss Charney Fellowship, C.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. Holmes senior Justice Grisby completes a review sheet on factors of production in her economics class. They performed as well as their peers in other states in reading, and better than the nation’s average in math.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. Independence or Catastrophe?

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