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
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.
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
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.
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.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 2, 2018
We don’t like to think of social justice as a zero-sum game. A majority of Louisiana inmates are housed in for-profit facilities,” noted Chen, “which must be supplied with a constant influx of human beings or a $182 million industry will go bankrupt.”. Higher Education. Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images. Weekly Update.
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