Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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Edthena

MARCH 26, 2021

Help your students see themselves when teaching American history. Here are some helpful tips on how to properly discuss race when teaching American history. . The CDC recently released its operational strategy guide for K-12 schools around implementation tips for safe in-person learning and school reopenings.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

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. This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. Maybe they never will.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Contents Action Plan Overview | Action Plan Step-by-Step Guide Media Guide | Posters and Graphics Messages for Signs, Social Media, and Chants | Record a Statement Coordinators and Co-Sponsors | Workshops and More Events It’s time to take action. These laws and restrictions have been imposed in at least 18 states. In Florida, Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Immigration has always been a difficult issue to grapple with, but we are in the midst of what will be remembered as a particularly dark time in our history. Such spaces allow for uncomfortable conversations where close examinations of the migrant crisis, and other crises of social justice, can be debated in thoughtful ways.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

Education is a tool for social justice.”. To complement our study of South African history, I have invited South Africans into our classroom. Education is a tool for social justice. This work requires that students understand learning as broader than how we often envision what happens inside classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Together, PUC and LMU designed a program that is centered on social justice theory and includes a focus on how teachers can create more equitable schools and classrooms, according to Leslie Chang, PUC Schools superintendent for instruction and leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

There’s more consensus about what it is not: a checklist, or an annual celebration, like Black History Month. But she will be leading a new class on social justice; already, 111 students have signed up — enough for five sections. It’s our responsibility to students.”. It has to be woven into the curriculum, across the subjects.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader? In truth, what concerns the right is young people learning to ask critical questions about our society, to organize for social change, and about the power of interracial solidarity. What book that looks honestly at U.S. What Can We Do? Many of them are not widely known.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader? In truth, what concerns the right is young people learning to ask critical questions about our society, to organize for social change, and about the power of interracial solidarity. What book that looks honestly at U.S. What Can We Do? Many of them are not widely known.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

It feels really good to say, ‘I believe in this and that,’” said Dawn Larson, a social justice and equity co-chair of the Green Lake PTA. “To Leslie Boggs, president of the National PTA, blamed much of that evolution on the often-exhausting fights over K-12 funding within school districts and states. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

If this is our chance to reimagine schools , remembering this history and prioritizing the protection of the black teaching force will be essential to create better places for black students to learn.

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 20, 2024

Now they’re gerrymandering our history to undermine our ability to link our present to the past. ” By Jim Peppler, Alabama Department of Archives and History A unit with three lessons by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca provides essential historical context for today’s struggle against voter suppression and for voting rights. As Kimberlé W.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the State Education Department had rejected 35% of the social studies textbooks submitted for review because of leftist content. The DeSantis administration objects to any references to “social justice” or negative references to capitalism. history and world history courses.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Mississippi teenagers Jashun Griffith and Trevion Williams know more than the basics about their state’s civil rights history, but they said they didn’t learn most of what they know in school. The theme of the five-day event was “Hope for Our Future: From Weeping to Working for Justice for Our Children.”. CLINTON, Tenn.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history when black lives mattered.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This course is an introduction to the histories of African Americans for those who talk favorably about “departed” black heroes like Ben Carson but find it difficult to recognize a black president. Session 1: Field Trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture with U.S. Frederick Douglass, ca. Spring 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

New York City Deputy Mayor Richard Buery greets Chirlane McCray, the city’s first lady, at the awards ceremony and celebration in honor of Black History Month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on February 23, 2017. Photo: Andy Katz/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire. Loeb is white and Buery is black.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: ATLANTA – As more and more attempts to restrict discussion of gender and race in K-12 schools across the country take hold, where do the ideas go?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

We focus on education, health, the environment, public safety and social justice issues. We focus on education, health, the environment, public safety and social justice issues. Wehrer acknowledges the racial differences between the K-4 schools, but said the real division between the populations is socioeconomic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2016

One lesson we’ve learned as teachers in mostly white school spaces at the K-12 and research university levels: All students, especially white students, need critically minded teachers of color. “We We both have colleagues in our respective fields who hold their ground as social justice educators.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When Texas’ House Bill (HB) 25 went into effect earlier this year, banning transgender students from participating in K-12 sports, I invited teachers at my middle school to stop by my classroom to help with a project to reaffirm our school’s support for trans students. But I want them to live.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The Day of Action is cosponsored by more than 65 prominent racial and social justice organizations. The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Ignoring the deep history between civil rights organizations and organized labor, reformers have charged the NAACP with working alongside unions as if corporate America has done black folk many favors. “If If we’ve learned anything from the history of black education, it is that dual systems don’t work.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

“But if you could see all the information flying around you — from radar to satellite communications to the conversations on social media — it would be unbelievable.”. The EBS slice of spectrum is further obscured by a history that actually predates the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. My support for vouchers,” he said, “didn’t have a damn thing to do with free-market principles … it was a social justice issue to me.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

A study from University of California, Berkeley economist Rucker Johnson suggests exposure to integrated schools among other reforms, such as high-quality pre-K and equitable school funding, can help disrupt the cycle of poverty. Experienced teachers may also factor in: The majority of educators in Ocean Springs hold advanced degrees.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 10, 2024

Below is a lesson, author talks, children’s books, the plight of health care in Gaza, and this day in people’s history entries. See More Pre-K–12 Books on Health and Healthcare Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books offer a carefully selected list of recommended titles for pre-K–12 on health and healthcare.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

We owe it to our students — and to the people of Gaza — to explore in our classrooms the history of this violence. Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books has a collection of books for pre-K-12 on Palestine. The unrelenting violence there is a crime against humanity. Subscribe today.

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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. Independence or Catastrophe?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Related: A professor’s proposed Black History Month course for one student: President Donald Trump. Related: Foundations aren’t helping anyone if they’re not serious about social justice. This means that taxpayers are footing the bill for parents in private and religious schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2017

History proves, however, that no one politician or philanthropist, for that matter, can fill that role – it belongs exclusively to the low-income parents who seize it as a mechanism for social justice and their children, who need it the most. At this particular moment in time, this is a lesson to remember.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 15, 2024

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. She received an enthusiastic response, with many educators affirming the need to teach banned books and banned history. Area Educators for Social Justice hosted interactive Teach Truth pop-up display tables on June 8 at: Busboys and Poets Brookland.

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