Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2020

I have a little room in my teaching schedule so I am offering two online Master’s-level courses this summer: EDUC 5001 E50. This course will be applicable to both schools and non-education organizations!]. — EDUC 5652 E50. Leadership for Social Justice (3 credits, online) [Class # 20596].

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

The stakes are high when it comes to equity in computer science education and in the broader tech industry. That’s not just because tech is a key to economic opportunity in America these days, but it’s also because of the social good that comes when everyone has a chance to have a seat at the table to build a better future.

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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 Higher Education. According to the U.S. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When I came out to my family during my first year of college in the early 2000s, my mom’s immediate concern extended beyond my safety and happiness to my future as an educator. My undergraduate education, grounded in social justice and critical literacy, energized me to create equitable opportunities in my classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And I knew that I was interested in pursuing a career focused on social justice. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. Listen to our higher education podcast.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I was part of a cohort of about 100 first-year educators, all united by a common mission: to serve under-resourced and underserved schools. But very quickly, I learned that teaching in a Title I school, where a high percentage of low-income students face significant educational gaps , was far more challenging than I had anticipated.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 26, 2020

My online Leadership for Social Justice class launches in 2 weeks. Coronavirus Chronicles 006 – Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency. Coronavirus Chronicles 021 – San Diego County Office of Education. I thought it would be fun to crowdsource some ideas here. not theoretical philosophizing)?

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2020

Educators may be looking for resources they can lean on as they navigate these complex issues with their students who understandably have a variety of feelings about what is taking place in our country. The Center for Racial Justice in Education has a collection of resources to guide conversations about race, racism, and racialized violence.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The legacy of James Baldwin , the writer and social justice leader, is very much alive at the school. Its curriculum — which includes courses on race, class and social justice — is carefully designed to be relevant to its students, who are almost all black or Hispanic and who mostly come from low-income backgrounds.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. Across the country, colleges and universities offer scores of programs designed to help students from underrepresented groups succeed in STEM education and prepare for tech careers.

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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?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

We don’t like to think of social justice as a zero-sum game. After paying their debt to society, the incarcerated need to be set up for success — and what better way to do that than to subsidize their education? Higher Education. A prisoner’s hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 3, 2021

There is some incredible work happening right now related to women in P-12 educational leadership. Women Who Lead has more than 500 curated video conversations with over 70 women who hold leadership positions in education. If you know of other initiatives that bring together awesome woman leaders in education, let me know!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The American higher education system, as it exists today, runs the risk of ripping off an entire generation. Subscribe today!

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended books for pre-K–12 on immigration. The post Teach About Immigration appeared first on Zinn Education Project. The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration Teaching Guide by Bill Bigelow Lessons for teaching about the history of U.S.–Mexico

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

The Cornell Students 4 Black Lives account takes a slightly different approach and operates as a coalition of student and alumni organizations focused on raising money for social justice organizations, while also highlighting how systemic racism plays out in Ithaca, New York, where Cornell is located, and on Cornell’s campus.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 13, 2025

Who are the individuals and social movements pointing the way to ecological sanity? Climate Crisis Trial Lesson Find many more lessons and teaching stories on environmental justice in the Rethinking Schools publication, A Peoples Curriculum for the Earth. The post Our Students Are in Peril appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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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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Social Justice Human Rights Humanities History 119

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

In 2025, the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Program will offer 16 two-year fellowship opportunities with mission-driven social justice nonprofits for recent humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs. The full roster of partnering organizations and positions is available here.

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Social Justice Museum Social Science Professional Development 52

Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. Students Uncover “The Power in Our Hands” The Zinn Education Project offers a collection of free lessons on labor history from the teaching guide by Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond, The Power in Our Hands.

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History Social Justice K-12 Teaching 98

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

More than 90 percent of Code Next’s latest cohort of high school graduates advanced to higher education, the vast majority in STEM fields, according to a Code Next survey. It’s significant progress toward the goal of connecting more young people with educational and career opportunities in technology. Who Isn’t Being Served?

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2022

“I think college presidents are realizing that the business model that has guided higher education for, gosh, almost 250 years now, is broken,” says Jeffrey Docking, president of Adrian College in Michigan. Innovating is no longer a want, but “a need for survival” as it’s become too expensive to keep doing things the old way, Docking says.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

Beginning next week, my summer students and I will co-create our Leadership for Social Justice class together, recognizing that none of us has all of the answers but that we all can do something. Books: School leadership for social justice. Liberatory education methods and protocols , Rashad. Books: Anti-racism.

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Social Justice Leadership Pedagogy Social Studies 109

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 16, 2024

In this election year, the Zinn Education Project developed an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display to raise awareness about the growing threat of anti-history education laws and book bans. Educators and organizations from all over the United States signed up to use the display on the Teach Truth Day of Action and beyond.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 27, 2024

What could be more important for our students than to learn that progress toward greater justice in the world has occurred only when people have organized together and fought for it? The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. Learn more.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

On July 16-18, Digital Promise held the fifth annual Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters18) in Philadelphia, with our co-host the ExCITe Center at Drexel University. EdClusters18 focused on clarifying the future vision, tools, and action steps for education innovation. Lean Lab Education (Kansas City).

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EdTech Education Social Justice Research 80

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2022

Over the 17 years I have taught high school chemistry, the challenges in education have become more acute — even before the pandemic we were scrambling to provide our students with meaningful instruction online and to find ways to get all our students to actively engage in learning. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Social Justice Government High School Leadership 126

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

However, there are groups of smart, highly motivated people who are coming up with some creative ways to address this situation, surprisingly affordable pathways for training good, enthusiastic educators. ” Eckert believes this appeal to social change is what makes EdRising different from recruitment programs of the past.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Her academic interests include American Government institutions and voting behavior, State and Local Government, Women and Politics as well as issues around citizenship, civic education, and political science education and pedagogy. She has been a Political Science educator for twenty-one years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. In July, Ajith and three of her friends testified before the Texas State Board of Education, demanding changes to the way students are taught.

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Teaching Elementary School Social Justice American History 145

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Educators in particular have carried a heavy load, and it has been our honor at Digital Promise to champion and support the courage and tenacity of teachers and leaders working to bring powerful learning to all students. The education landscape today is brimming with challenges. But this is not goodbye.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 14, 2025

Find resources below to teach about Reconstruction and find a curated collection of recommended books for pre-K-12 on incarceration for Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books. The post Beyond Wildfires: 13th Amendment and Incarcerated Labor appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2017

Their life choices are limited, though in some cases liberated, by their lack of formal education. This requires that we all – educators, administrators, parents, business partners, adult allies – give up some of our space, our privilege, our power and our certainty that only we know what’s best. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Social Justice Education High School Cultures 91

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2020

Educators may be looking for resources they can lean on as they navigate these complex issues with their students who understandably have a variety of feelings about what is taking place in our country. The Center for Racial Justice in Education has a collection of resources to guide conversations about race, racism, and racialized violence.

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Teaching Social Justice Advocacy Middle School 88

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

Until now, students — and sometimes teachers — have had to work to make digital content accessible, says Natalie Shaheen, an assistant professor of blind education at Illinois State University’s College of Education. But under the rule, educational institutions are responsible for the websites and materials they use for education.

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