Education Humanities Social Justice 
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 8, 2022
Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.
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 Higher Education. According to the U.S. Weekly Update.
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. My aunts, uncles and parents were keenly aware that they themselves had benefited substantially from America’s grand expansion of the public higher education system post-World War II. What can’t you do with a humanities degree?”
TeachThought
JULY 2, 2024
by TeachThought Staff Paulo Freire’s “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed” is a foundational text in educational theory. Written in the 1960s, this influential work remains as relevant today as it was at the time of its publication, offering insights into the nature of oppression and the transformative potential of education.
Digital Promise
MARCH 2, 2021
How can school districts create more equitable opportunities and dismantle systemic barriers facing many students, families, and educators? They recently reflected on their learning, and six strategies for advancing educational equity emerged. The post Six Strategies for Equitable Education Systems appeared first on Digital Promise.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
As an educator creating antiracist classrooms, I have wrestled with how to teach children about race and race relations since far before our country’s recent racial reckoning. And I believe that, to catalyze systemic change and create a better world for our children, we need to elevate race education, not restrict it.
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.
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