Humanities Library Social Justice 
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. What can’t you do with a humanities degree?” Earnings Disparities : Except in a few northwestern states, humanities majors earn at least 40 percent more than people with only a high school degree. Drawing on data from the U.S.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2018
Tyndall turned down a bevy of offers from colleges in other states to attend Rutgers’ Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), which brings together dozens of students each year for a residential program that combines rigorous academics with a social-justice focus. “I Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 16, 2018
The NNSTOY Social Justice Book list is a great resource for building your classroom library. Be human enough to admit them and correct them. Speak out in faculty meetings about inclusion, equity, and social justice and if necessary, challenge the status quo. Honor multiple perspectives in your classroom.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! Let’s take maps, for example.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
. “Heather” is once again a lightning rod as debates rage in Indiana over a Republican-backed bill that would allow schools and public libraries to be criminally prosecuted for books and other materials that contain obscenity, violence or pornography.
Cult of Pedagogy
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
Maybe you believe gender fluidity has always been a part of human existence and that those statistics only exist because we are just now getting around to naming and measuring it. Your opinion on this is likely to fall into one of several camps: Maybe you see this as a reflection of society’s growing acceptance of gender fluidity.
Cult of Pedagogy
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools.
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