Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Sign Up to Host an Event Leadership These events are coordinated by the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change), Black Lives Matter at School , and the African American Policy Forum. Interested in adding your organization as a co-sponsor?

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

Moreover, as targeted attacks on science, DEI initiatives, health care, and the communities we belong to and serve intensify under the current political administration, overt and covert advocacy and activism efforts will be crucial to maintaining and restoring human rights for the living and dead. This is the flagship U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Leadership The annual Teach Truth Day of Action is coordinated by Rethinking Schools’ and Teaching for Change’s Zinn Education Project and led by educators around the country with the support of the co-sponsors listed below. Below are examples of day of action activities, from prior events around the country.

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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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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In this context, President Jokowi’s embodiment of Indonesian identity is intertwined with the populist politics that underlie his leadership. This superficial cultural display meant to garner and maintain popularity often obscures the genuine political issues faced by indigenous communities, such as displacement and social injustice.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The group argues on its website that “all too often words such as diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, systemic racism, human rights education and health education concealed an aggressive, radical totalitarian ideology.”. We need to be very careful about what kind of materials are being provided to your children.”

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 16, 2024

My involvement with APSA, both as a member as well as in leadership roles, has been somewhat integral to my career. I should add that, over time, I also became quite seriously involved in the leadership and administration of S+P and the APSA LGBTQ Caucus. It has now lasted for almost 20 years! And I dont say this casually.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

“Betsy DeVos has been a total disaster for students’ civil rights for four years as Education Secretary and gets no credit now for resigning 13 days before inauguration,” The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights , the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights coalition, said in a tweet.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

His time in elementary school preceded both Johnson’s leadership at Collins Elementary and Duty’s in the district. She argues, in line with the international human rights position, that children are citizens, too, and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. A new superintendent, James Henderson, took over in 2018.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Notably, anthropologists’ leadership in what’s now known as UX research isn’t new or obscure: Lucy Suchman and other anthropologists helped pioneer it in the late 1970s. In other words, anthropologists happen to already be in the thick of one of the most pressing aspects of data in the twenty-first century.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

former Secretary of Education; Wade Henderson, former president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; and Fail State’s director, Alex Shebanow. We have got to change the leadership,” Waters said. The panel also included John B. MarketWatch reporter Jillian Berman moderated the conversation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This week, a group of civil and human rights activists called for targeted education funding as well, for both safe reopenings and to ensure that all students benefit equally. The post COLUMN: Endangered public schools need federal leadership more than ever appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

It was always perplexing to me to see the disparity between our society’s low expectations of women and my experience of the leadership shown by these two women, my role models. Women’s rights are human rights: That was Eleanor’s view before the slogan became associated with Hillary Clinton, from her speech at the 1995 U.N.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Liz King, who leads the education program for the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, one of the counter-event’s sponsors, said Moms for Liberty is boxing people out rather than being inclusive. Even parents of transgender youth, she said, admit “they didn’t know how to handle it. Well, we are all learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Andrea] Kristan Hawkins is the president of Students for Life of America, which has become the largest anti-abortion youth organization in the world under her leadership. Ross, the renowned human rights activist who’s now a professor at Smith College. And it’s my honor to introduce Kristan Hawkins.

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