Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Last fall we set out to discover which education research topics K-12 practitioners want to know more about. 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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Project-Based Learning K-12 Human Rights Middle School 74

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Curtin University, Australia (Human Rights). Here is the list of participating universities, with the course topics they plan to offer in the MicroMasters program: Australian National University (Evidence-Based Management). Columbia University (Artificial Intelligence).

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Human Rights Leadership Tradition Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

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Human Rights 91

Human Rights Tradition Humanities High School 91

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

The New York City Commission on Human Rights issued guidance that “grooming or appearance policies that ban, limit, or otherwise restrict natural hair or hairstyles associated with Black people generally violate the NYCHRL’s anti-discrimination provisions.”

Charter School 111

Charter School Human Rights Government High School 111

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

The group has a clear connection to pre-K-12 education. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Library 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

Young people can interview grandparents , read stories about people who were their age in the Movement , critique textbooks and explore timelines such as the history of transportation protests that demonstrate that the struggle for civil and human rights began long before the 1950s.

History 75

History Elementary School Library Civics 75

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

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Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

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. I felt like I was facing this consequence because I was vocal.

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K-12 Education Advocacy Human Rights 117

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Excerpts from our interviews with Asian American K-12 teachers shed light on some of these nuances. For example, NCES reported that in 2021, Asian students earned 13.6 percent of STEM undergraduate and 17.4 percent of STEM master’s degrees.[i] i] Yet research on Asian Americans’ perceptions of belonging tells another story.

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Heritage Education K-12 American History 102

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Neither are the laws they challenged , Mississippi civil rights activist T.R.M. In contrast, James K. Meanwhile, in “Mississippi: Portrait of an American State,” the chapter about the Civil Rights Movement lists 17 key figures students should know: 12 white men — a majority of them segregationists — four black men and one black woman.

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K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 94

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

12, where students learn in both English and Spanish, the process can be both bureaucratic and baffling. In 2011, one mother filed a complaint with the Cambridge Human Rights Commission, alleging that Amigos no longer served the Hispanic community. 12 well enough to enroll her younger child there, too.

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Heritage K-12 Human Rights High School 136

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

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Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Museum Archiving 52

Zinn Education Project

APRIL 25, 2024

We share stories of K-12 and college student activism from Denver, Colorado (in photo); Los Angeles, California; Orangeburg, South Carolina; Jackson and McComb, Mississippi; Prince Edward County, Virginia; New York City; and many more cities. The post Students Defend Human Rights appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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Human Rights Humanities K-12 History 144

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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. Download the lesson for free. The No War, No Warming poster is from Visualizing Palestine.

Teaching 52

Teaching Social Justice K-12 Human Rights 52

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 10, 2024

about her new book, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine about how racism shapes health and healthcare; maternal health and midwives; her family of physicians; healthcare as a human right; and more. See More Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa [One] problem was the intersection of environmental racism.

K-12 52

K-12 Social Justice Human Rights History 52

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.

Education 131

Education K-12 Advocacy Government 131

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

“I can ease my mind, strategize, think things through,” she said, sitting in a meeting room at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, a 120-year-old gothic-style church in Philadelphia where her mother, father and younger brother, Timothy, 12, have lived since August. A majority of the cases involve a parent — whether in the U.S.

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History Human Rights High School Humanities 103

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

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. In order to move forward without creating unintended harm for any community, we have to fundamentally rethink safety.

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Human Rights High School Government Humanities 94

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” Teaching Resources Lessons and Articles About K–12 Lessons and teaching stories on Palestine and Israel from Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project website.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

Thirty-eight religiously affiliated institutions have received exemptions from Title IX, according to a list released by the Education Department under pressure from Democrats in Congress after the gay rights organization the Human Rights Campaign used public-records laws to help expose the practice.

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Government Human Rights K-12 Advocacy 61

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

YouthTruth surveyed more than 180,000 students in 37 states in grades five through 12 to learn “ how much , in what ways, and why students are being bullied,” according to the report. We follow black athletes’ workout habits, styles, relationships and, maybe now, the way they confront racist bullies. Sign up for our newsletters.

Teaching 90

Teaching Human Rights Government Humanities 90

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

written by the great abolitionist and human rights leader Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) to understand how he advised the party of Abraham Lincoln. Please read “ What to the Slave is the 4 th of July? Take home essay due: Did Abraham Lincoln free the slaves ?

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History Museum American History Social Justice 78

The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2018

While South Carolina taxpayers spend roughly $13,200 annually to educate each K-12 student, state policies obstruct one group of students from advancing their education beyond high school. It’s illegal for K-12 public schools to ask about a student’s immigration status.

Education Policy 87

Education Policy K-12 Education High School 87

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2017

In support of this call, I have marched in solidarity with fellow women and community members to declare that women’s rights are human rights and that we all stand together in defending the most marginalized among us.

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Archiving Political Science Human Rights Economics 84

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2017

Eight transgender people have died this year, and 22 transgender people died last year in the United States because of violence , according to the Human Rights Campaign. People are dying at the intersections of ignorance, gender, race and sex. It was the most ever recorded, according to the advocacy group.

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Social Justice Advocacy Human Rights Critical Thinking 70

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2020, after events including the mass shooting two years earlier that killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, New Hampshire passed a law requiring instruction on the Holocaust and other genocides in grades 8 through 12. State Representative Glenn Cordelli cosponsored New Hampshire’s initial divisive concepts bill.

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Teaching Social Studies High School History 145