Zinn Education Project

JULY 20, 2024

Historian John Avery Dittmer (October 30, 1939 – July 19, 2024) was the author of key texts on the SNCC and grassroots organizing in Mississippi, including Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi and The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Legacy admissions began to get more attention after the Department of Education initiated a civil rights investigation in July 2023 into Harvard’s legacy practice. Simply put: There are people in the world who will give generously to support racial equality in higher education. All of this hints at a change in giving norms.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Though the past year has put a spotlight on the limits and possibilities of using technology for teaching and learning, we began exploring the utility of using virtual reality as a medium for Holocaust education before the pandemic reshaped the educational landscape. Sensitivity is required. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Eventually, I found a special education school willing to accept him. I was not able to homeschool, so a reading tutor and his iPad became his only access to education. Education is a human right, and public schools, open to all, are the guardians of this right. I took him out of public school in 4th grade.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2022

After Carson, Levin said public school advocates must prioritize educating state legislatures on the implications of school choice programs on the allocation of public dollars. “If inequality and innovation in education. I think the area of law is in flux. This story about Carson v. Makin was produced by? Sign up for?

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2023

Edtech has become inseparable from the education system. And human rights groups and regulators have also raised alarms about the vulnerability posed by invasive surveillance tech and school mishandling of data. But what should educators do? The researchers also note that many sites — 7.4

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2021

Selected projects will be shown on digital platforms and made available for educators, film festivals, and individuals alongside screening guides for those who want to improve their understanding about global issues and the solutions and approaches to tackle them.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 21, 2019

Are we fostering the creation of graduates who will shrug at the infringement of their civil liberties as adults because their families and educators have done so for years? Are educators courageous enough to be social media renegades? Supreme Court]. Surveillance Technologies and Children. Related Posts.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 15, 2024

Schedule Prairie View A&M University Gathering, Sept. 15, 5:00-6:30 pm ET: Freedom Teaching in the Movement Roundtable Discussion (in-person and livestreamed ) Nov. 16, 10:00 am-12:00 pm ET: Organizing Tradition Roundtable Discussion Workshop (in-person only) Nov. Schedule Prairie View A&M University Gathering, Sept.

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ED Surge

JUNE 3, 2022

The urgent need to educate children at home created by COVID-19 lockdowns turbocharged already existing momentum, and analysts now expect edtech expenditure to reach an eye-watering $300 billion globally this year. If they succeed, they will not simply have transformed education or technology.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

This story and video about school sports inequities was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The complaint states that 17,323 black and Latino teens attend a school with no PSAL teams at all. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

EdX, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that provides online courses, announced last week the creation of 19 “ MicroMasters ” courses, a new type of online educational program. Curtin University, Australia (Human Rights). A new kind of credential has entered the crowded market for online learning. MicroMasters.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The situation has school counselors feeling stuck, said Mandy Savitz-Romer, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and expert in school counseling. “We A report in October by the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University found that more education generally yields higher earnings — but not always.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And nowhere is this conversation more relevant than in K-12 education, where AI holds the promise of revolutionizing how teachers teach and students learn. The data generated helps educators tailor their lesson plans and instruction. But education leaders can’t wait for policies to be drawn up and legislation enacted.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. We don’t ask our students, some of the most talented young people in the world, whether they’d like to study the humanities. Nevertheless, higher education hasn’t had a true redesign of its approach to majors and courses in 50 years.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. And critically, we partnered with local women activists who promote education and social change to address water insecurity.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Those who are Black, indigenous, students of color, disabled or undocumented may encounter in-person surveillance and exclusionary discipline policies that limit their access to equitable education. This return may be especially painful now because many of these students thrived with remote schooling. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

In parallel, though, we also need to double down on “softening” schools—to focus on building social emotional skills of students and educators and strengthen relationships between students and educators. schools now have controlled access to the building, up from 75 percent in 2000, according to Education Department data.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2022

They have shaped and promoted editorial guidelines for the products they fashion, which will land in the hands of educators and students. Leaders across the education ecosystem recognize the importance of putting achievement within the reach of all students.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. conflicts with China and Russia, I thought it useful to take a look at digital education in those two countries. While here in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. Black hair isn’t holding students’ education back, but the federal government’s dereliction of duty is.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Right now, Nebraska has a pretty typical assessment system.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In this episode, I share my first hand experience of what it’s like to be a low-income student in a pandemic, and speak about my struggles to receive technological support from the Department of Education in the midst of working to complete my AP classes and get through junior year. By Toli Begum. By Gilana Steckel.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Last fall we set out to discover which education research topics K-12 practitioners want to know more about. You told us you want to know more about the research behind PBL because it can provide real-world context for education, making learning meaningful and fun! Check out the PBL Featured Topic Page. At Bearden Middle School in TN….

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

My sector of higher education faces questions about our relevance, our values and whether we really help people prepare for the world beyond our campuses. The Flint water crisis was a reminder to me of why the world needs students educated in the manner that my colleagues and I strive for. Higher Education. And he’s right.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In 2012, the Human Rights Campaign reported that 47 percent of LGBT youth say they do not “fit in” in their communities. This story about LGBTQ+ mental health was produced by The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Jaiden Blancaflor, 17.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2016

Emoti-Con is supported by partner organizations striving to promote STEM education in schools, including Mouse, Mozilla Hive New York, Parsons School of Design and Urban Arts Partnership. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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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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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. But one day, very quickly, all of those rights were shattered. It was then that we had to make the hard decisions.

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All Things Pedagogical

MAY 11, 2024

That we are supposed to see the good faith they say- these things take time, even though human rights legislation and equity guidance has been on the books for decades in many places. that we are told we are supposed to have gratitude for. I know deeply how much this is long game work.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

things imaginable,” Rethinking Schools editors wrote in the introduction to Rethinking Elementary Education. We must assess our own knowledge and perspective as educators. Related: Rising popularity of dual-language education leaves Latinos behind. We cannot teach what we do not know. saying “I have a dream.”

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

Invited to present at the University of London and to deliver a TEDx Talk, titled “Racism in Higher Education”, at the University of Santa Barbara in 2022, she excels at translating complex ideas into accessible and impactful discourse. Loonat is a prolific researcher whose work has garnered international recognition.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2017

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Ethical dilemmas abound in education. Teachers, principals, superintendents, and education policymakers face questions such as these every day. Read the original version here. The Case of the Failing Eighth Grader.

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