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Zinn Education Project
JULY 20, 2024
Historian John Avery Dittmer (October 30, 1939 – July 19, 2024) was the author of key texts on the SNCC and grassroots organizing in Mississippi, including Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi and The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care.
Political Science Now
AUGUST 15, 2024
Citation from the Award Committee: A self-described, “high-spirited feminist philosopher and political scientist”, Dr. Loonat is a passionate advocate for equity and social justice. As an immigrant and first-generation scholar, she brings a unique and invaluable perspective to her work.
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ED Surge
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Organizations that embrace the promotion of DEI tend to establish and follow a core set of guiding principles, particularly in the creation of their educational products, that resemble the following: Respect for human rights; they endeavor to create content that is free of discrimination, implicit or explicit prejudice and bias.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. The pandemic and social unrest have spurred activism and artistic and creative efforts, she said.
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. Some of their ongoing projects include examining book collections, offering workshops on gender and racism, and creating a curriculum for teaching local Black history all year long.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 6, 2018
College Track shares my belief, and my culture’s belief, that education is a fundamental human right. Leave this field empty if you're human: All of this is coming full circle now that my college diploma is almost in hand. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 2, 2017
” Fleming, a human rights advocate, explains that the circumstances Ada is living under could be defined as an armed conflict or a war zone. Right now, our conversation in the United States about education policy and practice is so polarized, and so dismissive of the other side,” explains Levinson. Willie “J.R.”
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