Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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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. It gives me hope for the future.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

Program 1: Educators Rising Educators Rising is a national grow-your-own program that nurtures middle and high school students who want to become teachers. Through school-based chapters, EdRising gives students training and clinical teaching experience before they ever set foot on a college campus. .”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I I need to take my students outside and have them actually do the work of protesting.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2020

A recent survey from Active Minds, a mental health nonprofit, found that 80 percent of the high school and college students surveyed are having difficulty concentrating. The coronavirus pandemic has upended the American education system at all levels, and it is taking a serious toll on student mental health and well-being.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. LOS ANGELES — When students at one California charter network graduate from high school, they get more than just a diploma.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 16, 2024

The box includes three picture books and one high school text that have been banned or challenged in recent years: When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball, When Aidan Became a Brother, Fry Bread, and The Bluest Eye. Credits Installation at the NEA Conference on Racial and Social Justice.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

Riley Campbell isn’t one of those aspiring educators who always dreamed of leading her own classroom or who played school with her friends growing up. For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

I think of my former students who brought their own children to the middle/high school I would later lead as a principal. I think of my former students and the respectful and rigorous reading and writing, debates and discussions that we had in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

These bills forbid teachers from providing instruction that wades deeply into social justice topics. The program is designed to “elevate” the voices of historically marginalized people and has a goal of having students complete social justice action tasks. The student lessons are specific to grade-level bands.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

When the afternoon bell rang, Autumn Edwards, a high school senior in the Methow Valley, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, rushed out of class to her 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck — and to her job at a ranch. Many high schools, said Anderson, “like to promote the fact that 100 percent or 95 percent are college-bound.”

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2020

The Teaching Tolerance website has a collection of ready-to-use classroom lessons and resources that span a range of social justice topics and issues while prioritizing social-emotional learning. Area Educators for Social Justice website has a collection of resources for educators.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

We didn’t wait for school officials to create conditions in which Black excellence is celebrated and studied. TeenSHARP high school students led the charge to create a statewide coalition of Black students — the Delaware Black Student Coalition — that helped get a law passed in Delaware to require schools to teach Black history.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

This wall at Skyline High School in Mesa, Arizona is part of “Rainbow in the Clouds, “a lesson in the Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) model of SEL. Credit: Image provided by Skyline High School. We have this idea once students are in high school, they are fully formed. Customize carefully.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

They believe that kids, no matter what grade they are in, should learn history through an antiracist lens, not only learning about the role of white supremacy and racism in history, but doing so in a way that empowers them to pursue social justice. And they aren’t the only ones advocating the adoption of such curricula.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Striding into a packed community center filled with high school seniors, Atnre Alleyne has a few words of advice for the crowd, members of the first class of college applicants to be shaped by June’s Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious admissions. In your schools, do something! Fight for social justice.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Both the Marcy Lab School and Hack the Hood also try to prepare students for what they might experience when they get into the workforce. When she became pregnant with her first child shortly after graduating from high school, she decided to keep working in customer service jobs rather than go to college.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

For instance, here are the numbers from Colorado, despite our desire that high school graduates “ demonstrate the knowledge and skills (competencies) needed to succeed in postsecondary settings ”: 74.6% Colorado high school graduation rate, Class of 2009 x 52.6%

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

Half a dozen nervous-looking high school students and their parents browse a table of pamphlets and freebies, then settle into molded plastic chairs to hear a hyper-enthusiastic admissions officer sing the praises of the Colorado School of Mines. The campus of the Colorado School of Mines. GOLDEN, Colo.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

high school students. The report included data on school connectedness, which the CDC defines as “the feeling among adolescents that people at their school care about them, their well-being, and success.” Previous SEL research combined these constructs into a general category of social outcomes.

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Civics K-12 Social Justice Research 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

We don’t like to think of social justice as a zero-sum game. A biased criminal justice system forces us to redefine “merit” when it comes to determining who earned or deserves a scholarship. A prisoner’s hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana. Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images.

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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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Social Justice Leadership Political Science Education 109

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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The social justice movement plays a role, too, since the transfer barrier disproportionately thwarts Black and Hispanic students. If you don’t have a reliable flow of students coming from somewhere other than high schools, you’re going to be in trouble.” Momentum to make transfer easier began before the Covid crisis.

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Social Justice High School Government Education 145

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 1, 2019

The ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards and Competencies require counselors to “use multicultural and social justice theories to promote equity and access for all students.”. Related: School counselors increasingly are missing link in getting kids to college.

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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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Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 144

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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Multicultural Education Social Justice Elementary School Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

For Kucirkova, improving digital books is a matter of “social justice”. “We need to dig more into how to make the most out of digital books, how can we make them most effective,” she said. Unfortunately, many digital books are of really low quality,” she said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

Virginia Forcucci speaks to students in her 10th grade English class at Sussex Tech High School. On a recent Thursday morning, when most of their peers were busy prepping for the day, a dozen teachers and staff at Delaware’s Sussex Tech High School sat down to talk about race. Photo: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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Cultures Social Justice High School Pedagogy 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Perhaps schools are simply more effective at advancing private purposes and we’re assigning them a role that they are ill-suited to play. If social justice is your aim, perhaps housing, health care, taxation and income may be more effective public policy levers than education. The results have not rewarded our faith.

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Education Charter School Social Justice K-12 128

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Science has to be taken seriously,” said Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice at UCLA and author of Proust and the Squid , a book about how the brain learns to read. “We Science evolves.

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Tutoring Private School Social Justice Research 144

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Forest Hill High School is a picture of strength and prosperity, but it received an “F” rating on its most recent state evaluation, as did almost a third of the schools in the Jackson school district. From the outside, Forest Hill High School is a picture of strength and prosperity. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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Charter School Public School Social Justice High School 108

Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

utilize digital technologies in academic- and work-productive ways that go far beyond social uses or mere replication of analog instructional practices.

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Leadership Social Justice High School Teaching 82

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“The bigger thing is you now have people who are freshmen in college, sophomores in college, juniors in college, or even in high school, who for the last few months have been watching Dr. Fauci on TV and thinking, ‘Maybe this is for me.’ ”.

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Social Justice American History History High School 143