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More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

The Hechinger Report

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. We became community support, right off the bat,” he said of counselors.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

School, district-based, or statewide book study Regular meetings to discuss chapters and create individual and/or collective action plans around each of the book’s five sections. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings.

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COLUMN: Are book bans stopping a Marxist “revolution” or whitewashing the past?

The Hechinger Report

This is evident in recent campaigns to ban books that mention homosexuality, race or gender, along with today’s disputes over how much control parents should have over what children are being taught in public schools across the country.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

ED Surge

Despite our school’s commitment to social justice and our district’s prioritization of equity, there were still staff members who were unwilling to voice public support for all students. Unfortunately, this right is not adequately afforded to our transgender students.

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Put more gender studies in schools’ sex ed courses

The Hechinger Report

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. Related: Foundations aren’t helping anyone if they’re not serious about social justice. It was the most ever recorded, according to the advocacy group.

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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

Rethinking Schools : Teach Palestine. The spring 2024 issue offers a collection of articles and other resources on teaching about Palestine-Israel amid the growing attack on social justice education. Books Social Justice Books list of titles for K-12 and educators on Palestine.

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Vote for America

Dangerously Irrelevant

A non-transparent federal government that destroys or hides public records and data and is unaccountable to the American people. Denial of ongoing racial injustice and attacks on social justice-oriented remedies and protections. Attempts to deny women the basic right to choose what happens with their own bodies.