Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The history of the Amigos School, a dual-language program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, shows that even seemingly minor changes to admissions processes can significantly shape how a school is perceived — and who applies — tilting preference toward privilege.

Heritage 134

Heritage K-12 Human Rights High School 134

MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia. They created the entry on Settler colonialism in Canada , describing the important history of the displacement and mistreatment of Canada’s indigenous populations by European settlers. Helaine has a Ph.D.

Political Science 52

Political Science Human Rights History Economics 52

Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

Pedagogy 103

Pedagogy Anthropology Geography Private School 103

Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

Corwin Award for the best dissertation in the field of public law Recipient: Lucien Ferguson, Boston College Law School Title: “The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights” Harold D. The Consequences of Foreign Criticism” Leonard D.

Political Science 63

Political Science Civics Civic Engagement Archiving 63

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Human rights experts and activists have named the situation in Palestine “ scholasticide ” or “ educide ,” terms that refer to the systematic destruction of a people’s educational system. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

Anthropology 141

Anthropology Human Rights Humanities Cultures 141

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Rereading what I wrote then about deaf students at the ASDC while witnessing the flattening of Gaza 10 years later feels chilling—a visceral reminder that the history of Palestine, as numerous commentators have observed , did not begin on October 7, 2023.

Archiving 145

Archiving Anthropology Psychology Government 145

Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

We started by wrapping up our government voice inquiry with a Thick Slide summary and fast Gimkit reviews, then dived into Sketch and Tell-o on Loyalist perspectives and Enlightenment ideas with Parafly paraphrasing exercises. They carefully planned a way to explain why they wanted to be free and what they believed about human rights.”

Primary Sources 103

Primary Sources Government History Human Rights 103

ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them. To put this into context, that number was just 41 bills in the whole of 2018.

Education 128

Education K-12 Advocacy Government 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

Another 14,600 unaccompanied minors were in federal custody as of late December , a dramatic increase over previous years, after the government increased scrutiny of adult sponsors, who are often undocumented themselves. (A majority of the cases involve a parent — whether in the U.S. The Thompsons came to the U.S. from Jamaica in 2004.

History 99

History Human Rights High School Humanities 99

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. government.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Public School High School Government 145

Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Corporations and governments alike now routinely create, purchase, and exchange user data—and not just in the Global North. PC Magazine concisely defines user data as “any data a user creates or owns,” but this flaunts the crux of user data’s ethical quagmire: to what extent do any users own their data?

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Humanities Government Human Rights 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

Grove City College, which sued the federal government for linking accepting federal financial aid with following anti-discrimination rules. In the storm over how much money the federal government spends on student aid, and the spiraling amount of federal loan debt graduates face, Hillsdale College is an oasis.

Government 57

Government Human Rights K-12 Advocacy 57

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Social bullying, which includes deliberately harming someone’s reputation or relationships, according to a government website , followed at 54 percent. Throughout history, athletes who exhibit heroism on the field have joined forces to combat hatred off of it. The study found verbal bullying to be most prevalent, at 73 percent.

Teaching 86

Teaching Human Rights Government Humanities 86

Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

After explaining the history of colonization as a process of intense economic extraction and political subjugation by imperial powers, she then explained that decolonization was something far more modest. government’s own assessment that global democracy is in a state of decline.

Anthropology 90

Anthropology Human Rights Psychology Humanities 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2017

Both have seen their governments investing less in higher education and students and families struggling to pay more, with many of the poorest ending up at campuses with low success rates while those who are wealthier and white have access to the best universities. The South African protests began as something else entirely.

Government 59

Government Economics Education Policy Human Rights 59

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2021

In my view, this was an “insurrection,” a violent uprising against a government. In 1963, James Baldwin wrote, “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” Subsequent conversations can focus on media literacy.

American History 128

American History Human Rights History Government 128

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Even though the majority of Americans are against most of what the GOP supports, this election is not just a choice between bigger government or smaller government or conservatism versus progressivism. Gutting of government ethics enforcement. Cozying up to dictators who commit human rights violations.

Social Justice 144

Social Justice Government Humanities Human Rights 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The mural, which stretches the length of a football field, intersperses student artwork with text from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was inspired by a group of eighth graders who, in December 2012, just months after Yousafzai’s shooting, had attended a human rights conference in Canada.

Human Rights 123

Human Rights Education Heritage Library 123

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In October 1945, Eleanor wrote about women in politics, “they need not function as a minority group unless they allow themselves to be pushed aside … If women want to take part in their local, state, and national governments today, they can do so with complete equality. Hillary obtained the votes. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

History 89

History Human Rights Critical Thinking Leadership 89