ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

My journey into teaching was born from a deep-seated curiosity about the transformative power of education and a drive for social justice. Despite attending high school in Los Angeles County, which has a diverse population including 49 percent of residents who identify as Hispanic / Latino, I never had a Latino male teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

. Service, liberal education, being responsive to society’s needs, and a commitment to social justice: the tenets of a Jesuit education look a lot more like the innovative future than some might think. The founder of the Jesuit order, St. Working adults now comprise 40 percent of U.S. higher education. Depends who you ask.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. It is pernicious, it is cruel, and it must change,” he writes. Maybe they never will.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next is a free after-school program designed to make tech more accessible to students of color, many of whom lack opportunities to explore STEM fields in middle and high school. Code Next is a perfect example of how better spaces can create social justice,” Kurani said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2021

When we talk with our students about what is going on in the news, and how Black and brown members of our community are being hurt, we respect children’s intelligence, humanity and curiosity and the love they have for themselves and others. I sent an email to caregivers after the class conversation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Related: More Latino students earning high school diplomas wrestle stubborn equity gap. It is not logical that students at a social justice-oriented school are learning the complexities of race and socioeconomic status in an environment that is majority white and upper-class.”. “We Next stop, college. “It

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the most dramatic came in high school after the administration told me I couldn’t wear an Afro because it was a “fad.” If human prejudice runs that deeply in Americans and those trusted to protect and serve us, we still have a lot of work to do. After graduating from high school, I let my hair grow out.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

We talk about [our dual-language school] as a revolution. We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”. The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Although we cannot rewrite the past, we must change this narrative of violence now — with rational and humane actions. Yet too much of our film and TV, social media, gaming and music today is oversaturated with violence and substance abuse. All of this desensitizes us to real life and strips away our humanity.

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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. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

The first time Hsiulien Perez attended Indiana University Northwest, in the early 1990s, she had just graduated from high school and given birth to her first child. The steel mills where Perez’s father worked paid good wages to people straight out of high school. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. GARY, Ind. —

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But for Robinson, who attended an art high school in New York, “It was definitely worth the risk” to enroll in the fall at this small college with its alternative curriculum of self-directed learning and no grades or majors — shaky though its fate might seem. We’re not just fighting for Antioch College.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Related: How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice. Leave this field empty if you're human: “With declining enrollment and a more competitive market, institutions are trying to find new prospects,” said Eduventures senior analyst Johanna Trovato, who has studied the rise in so-called niche degrees.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Gifted education needs to diversify, they said — for racial and social justice, and because otherwise it might not survive. Terman set the stage by writing in the 1910s that giftedness was very high intelligence, which he defined as the top 1 percent of scorers on his IQ exam, researcher Jennifer L.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Related: More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit. That’s slightly lower than the 24 percent of recent high school graduates who aren’t in college who said they’d used them. Related: How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice. Weekly Update.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

.” But if you happen to live in a place where conversations about race are allowed or even encouraged in school, or if you’ve decided that it’s worth it to try despite the risk — I’m here to recommend two books that will be incredibly helpful companions in that work.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

But some researchers fear this gene screening work could be misapplied and used to further racist or eugenic thinking, even though race is a social, not a genetic, classification. The score could also point to students most likely to stick with advanced math courses across all four years of high school.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools. I totally agree with that.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. Many conservative legislators, school board members and parents object to all claims that racism in America is systemic, arguing instead that it is the product of individual bias.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

Jaden Huynh, then 16 and a sophomore at Arvada West High School in a suburb northwest of Denver, circled the dinner table plating goi — a Vietnamese salad — and spring rolls for her family’s Easter dinner and silently counted all the empty seats for cousins and extended relatives. By mid-April, the world had changed. This is it.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

have been teaching humanities to ninth-graders at Codman Academy Charter Public School in Boston for the last 12 years. While on my journey, I observed three patterns in particular that I’d like to share: Teacher leadership, social and emotional learning, and fellowship. At Roosevelt High School in St. Fellowship.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

To try to have a longer-lasting impact Farrell created what he calls “my first draft of expeditionary learning” at Trenton Central High School. Over time, Farrell and other like-minded people, including Campbell and Dr. Paul Ylvisaker (dean of Harvard’s education school), developed and honed the EL ideas. Photo: Gail Robinson.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

Videos At the River I Stand Documentary film on the African American sanitation workers’ 1968 fight for human dignity and a living wage in Memphis. Jesse Hagopian teaches Ethnic Studies and is the co-adviser to the Black Student Union at Garfield High School in Seattle. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:

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Social Justice History Economics Tradition 52

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.”. Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Education Social Justice Humanities Cultures 96

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Last fall, Marielle Williamson, a senior at Eagle Rock High School in Los Angeles, set up a table just outside her school’s college center. To many medical groups, the school dairy requirement has become a clear anachronism. The school district did say its food services program follows USDA guidelines. “We

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Let’s be clear: this may be the reality in our country but the vitriolic hate and utter dismissal of basic human dignities that have been major political themes during this election represent the worst of human nature and American society. Colorado high school graduation rate, Class of 2009 x 52.6%

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Social Justice Economics Critical Thinking Humanities 106

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 Anthropology Geography Private School 103

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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Library Social Justice History Psychology 108

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We offer lessons and resources for the classroom, along with stories about organizing for environmental justice. Learn More Fight for Life in Cancer Alley New Human Rights Watch Report Human Rights Watch released a devastating new report called, “We’re Dying Here”: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone.

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Teaching Social Justice K-12 Human Rights 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

On average, 84 percent of them graduate from high school, just shy of the national average. But at a handful of the district’s high schools, only 1 in 5, students receive a diploma. We want human interaction and not to be glued to our computers all the time.”. Credit: Bianca Bagnarelli / for NBC News.

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Middle School Heritage Teaching Social Justice 135

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A block dominated by houses with peeling paint and patched shingles gives way to the massive dull-brick facade of North Division High School, Fuller’s alma mater. The former Milwaukee schools superintendent and longtime school choice advocate pauses. Black schools for black children.

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Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 109

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Twenty-five teachers will be selected to attend.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 106