The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

There has never been a moment when I couldn’t accept my son for who he is; why can’t private schools do the same — especially those that market themselves to the special needs demographic? Education is a human right, and public schools, open to all, are the guardians of this right.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2020

NEW YORK CITY has two high school systems. The other primarily serves low-income students of color, concentrates them in the same schools, and offers them slim hope of college preparation. But most people here, including policymakers, have little idea what actually goes on inside this dual school system.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

During a John Muir High School walkout protesting the school’s ban on durags on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Dylan Wilson, 15, shows his 360 wave hairstyle, created after months of wearing a durag. However, if there is an issue in which schools need guidance, it’s around black hair.

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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. School kids may well rebel at the rules. A school that suppresses students’ voices isn’t the kind of school where a parent like me would want to enroll his child.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When I, Jaiden, entered high school in 2017, I had just started identifying as transgender, and it was scary. Related: OPINION: Three ways to turn schools into safe learning environments for LGBTQ students in post-Orlando America. This felt true for me, as I am one of the few transgender students at my school.

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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. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Right now, Nebraska has a pretty typical assessment system. He already introduced the ACT as the state test for high school students. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. But Matthew Blomstedt, the state’s education commissioner, is trying to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Only families with a child enrolled in the San Francisco Unified School District could be admitted, and Mateo was a high school junior. “I I didn’t want to,” Flores said of calling the school-based shelter that Friday night, “but I was so tired.” They are more likely to change schools and be chronically absent.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

At Vista High School in CA… Jeb Dickerson takes a slightly different approach when working with his freshmen. For example, Jeb and his colleague, Jen Anderson, are currently teaching Of Mice and Men through the lens of human rights.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

In elementary school, students develop a deep-seated understanding of who makes history and their role in it. Yes, the history will be studied in more depth when they are in high school and college. The era following the Civil War, Reconstruction , gets short shrift in high school and is rarely mentioned at all in elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2018

That same year, I had the good fortune to be accepted into College Track , an organization that works with first-generation students from low-income communities throughout their high school and college careers, to ensure they earn four-year degrees. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

I have said it before, CSEd is a new human right that should be accessible to all students, regardless of race, gender or socioeconomic status, and universal access inevitably closes the digital divide. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The National Women’s History Museum documents how Truth advocated for voting rights for all and argued that gender or race should not restrict any human rights. ” address, challenged the prejudices against both Black Americans and women. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings. K–12 educators created a space to “generate and share ideas for promoting anti-racist curricula and practices in Chicago schools.”

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Decatur High School staff member Jennifer Young said at the #TeachTruth, Jennifer Young. What we would love for you to do is cover the sidewalk with whatever you learned today, because that’s not being taught in your school and it can be taught in the Square. They also made the link to mass incarceration. Photo by Dean Hesse.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist, I often find myself in settings where discussing Palestine, or even mentioning my identity as a Palestinian American, presents more challenges than when I worked in the field of human rights and law. These attacks frequently go beyond the curriculum and become personal. Do you mean Israel?”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 2011, one mother filed a complaint with the Cambridge Human Rights Commission, alleging that Amigos no longer served the Hispanic community. And Loh and other parents at Amigos petitioned the school board to change the admissions process, worried that Amigos increasingly catered too much to the children of Cambridge’s elite.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

For example, San Diego high school teacher Don Dumas held an event last year with his students over Memorial Day weekend. Decatur High School staff member Jennifer Young said at the #TeachTruth event, Jennifer Young. SELECT A SITE, DATE, AND TIME Belton, Texas. Photo by Richard Beaule. Photo by Dean Hesse.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Yet, in the book most districts use — titled “Mississippi Studies” and published in 2005 — only five of 100 pages are devoted to civil rights struggles. In Mississippi Studies, a required high school course, “Mississippi: The Magnolia State” is commonly used. History when they reach high school.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

High school history teacher Amanda Sandoval was one of hundreds of educators who received copies of Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad from the author Matthew Delmont and the Zinn Education Project. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 25, 2024

Chicago students organized “peace talks” at high schools across the city in the wake of a walkout protest demanding a ceasefire to the war in Gaza in January 2024. The post Students Defend Human Rights appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Source: Denver Post Through U.S.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. On January 15, two days before the start of the 2024 school year, I joined 50 grade eight students and their guardians for an orientation at Launch, a high school in one of Cape Town’s oldest townships.

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Pedagogy to Share

MAY 17, 2023

We spent an additional morning at the Kuben High School, Kuben Videregaende Skole. From the European Wergeland Centre , Marianne Haug spoke about educating for democracy and human rights. She also focused on the crucial role of teacher mediation during and following the written dialogue between the students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Teaching real history will not bring children down based on the color of the skin, but will raise them up and inspire them to stand up and not repeat gruesome patterns.” Lizzie Koschnick, student, North Central High School, Indianapolis.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 31, 2024

Embed from Getty Images In addition to Freedom Schools, the civil rights activists (most in their late teens or early 20s) organized a Freedom Theater ; a Medical Committee for Human Rights ; a legal committee ; a motor fleet ; primary elections; a WATTS communication line; a system of daily check-ins to ensure everyone was safe; and much more.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 6, 2024

Kansas City high school teacher and event co-organizer Michael Rebne said, Our students demand to learn the truth even if a small group of powerful, mostly wealthy, white adults is threatened by that. This year many teachers and students are being attacked for speaking truthfully about Palestinians’ human rights.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Water and Environmental Racism: A Middle and High School Lesson Art by Pete Railand via Justseeds The Water and Environmental Racism lesson introduces students to the struggle of residents to access safe water for drinking, cooking, and bathing in the majority-Black cities of Flint, Michigan; Jackson, Mississippi; and Newark, New Jersey.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2019

Some started crossing in elementary school. Related: In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college. Two transborder high school students wait for the first of two buses they take every morning to get to school on the U.S. and its largest trading partner. “We

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ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2023

The nonprofit recognized Mendiola for her work at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, where she created a bilingual broadcast journalism class with a strong focus on news literacy and media ethics. All of the school’s students are bilingual in English and Spanish, and they come from families with limited financial resources.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

Christine switched schools, leaving Bridgeton High School in southern New Jersey to begin her sophomore year at Philadelphia’s International Christian High School. At my age I’m supposed to make friends and have a good high school life. It’s, like, really weird,” she said. “At

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Fort Lauderdale, FL — In the wake of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, protesters attend a Feb. We can do this by centering the voices of the young people, educators and families and human rights advocates that have joined two groups: One group is ready to take to Washington following last week’s tragedy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

“Betsy DeVos has been a total disaster for students’ civil rights for four years as Education Secretary and gets no credit now for resigning 13 days before inauguration,” The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights , the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights coalition, said in a tweet.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

They are fundamentally values of human rights that are shared amongst vast numbers of the world’s population. Looking through the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), you can find relatable wording to each of the seven objectives summarised above. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Too often the school curriculum in the United States has told young people — explicitly and implicitly — that some lives matter more than others. We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. 19 states still allow corporal punishment in public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

In a sports-obsessed country, Americans, particularly young people, admire and emulate black athletes who dominate two of the most revenue-generating professional sports, football and basketball, as well as their own sports teams in high school and college. Smith and Carlos were stripped of their medals and were sent home in disgrace.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2017

A much higher 57 percent of American nonwhite high school graduates go to college, though that’s still lower than the 68 percent of whites who do, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee. Related: How the immigration controversy could drive up the cost of college. Eighty percent of U.S.

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