The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Social justice is a core value of Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, and the school also belongs to a special assessment cons ortium , giving it more freedom in what is taught than a typical New York City public high school. Sanes gets a lot of support for this approach from his administration.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In the Austin Independent School District in Texas, administrators recognize that same value for their native Spanish speakers who enter the public schools without English fluency. We talk about [our dual-language school] as a revolution. We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

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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Teaching K-12 Professional Development Library 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Unusually for Buffalo’s public schools — where 20 percent of students are white and 46 percent are Black — about half of the fourth grade class was white. Nearly 60 percent of students in gifted education are white, according to the most recent federal data , compared to 50 percent of public school enrollment overall.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

Education is a tool for social justice.”. Education is a tool for social justice. Sydney Chaffee, 2017’s National Teacher of the Year, is ninth-grade humanities teacher at Codman Academy Charter Public School of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

have been teaching humanities to ninth-graders at Codman Academy Charter Public School in Boston for the last 12 years. While on my journey, I observed three patterns in particular that I’d like to share: Teacher leadership, social and emotional learning, and fellowship. Fellowship. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Leadership Social Justice Middle School Public School 104

ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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. At school, trans kids experience physical and verbal harassment from peers, and regularly hear transphobic comments from teachers.

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Education K-12 Advocacy Government 128

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

It’s part of a growing, youth-led movement against the Agriculture Department’s “milk mandate” — a requirement that public schools offer moo juice at every meal service — and other federal rules that make it difficult for students to access plant-based alternatives. Some students oppose the rules because they are vegan.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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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Library Social Justice History Psychology 114

Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the State Education Department had rejected 35% of the social studies textbooks submitted for review because of leftist content. The DeSantis administration objects to any references to “social justice” or negative references to capitalism. history and world history courses.

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Social Studies Social Justice K-12 Civics 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

“The original idea for EL was taking the ideas of a good progressive education, the best of it, and combining it into something that could be implemented and serve low-income kids,” said Meg Campbell, co-founder of Boston’s Codman Academy Charter Public School, a member of the EL Education network. Most are small. Photo: Gail Robinson.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

The largest charter-school operators in New York, they were founded and have been led and staffed primarily by whites, even as the majority of the students and communities they serve are black and brown. Yet the proliferation of charter schools led and staffed overwhelmingly by whites is a serious impediment to their potential.

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Charter School Social Justice Museum Leadership 82

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The tsunami of laws and Executive Orders attacking public school curricula mobilize a range of doublespeak, from divisive concepts to race scapegoating to psychological stress; many include the admonition that teachers may not teach students that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist.

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Social Justice Primary Sources History Civics 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

They watched as the police murder of an unarmed Black man reignited the country’s fight for racial and social justice. Related: Opening the doors to elite public schools. That held true for Michael, but therapy helped him understand the importance of human relationships. “I

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Charter School High School Social Justice Tradition 124

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Too often the school curriculum in the United States has told young people — explicitly and implicitly — that some lives matter more than others. We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” Rethinking Schools : Teach Palestine.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2020

On whether or not we’re going to restore fundamental human decency to our nation. 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.

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Social Justice Government Humanities Human Rights 144

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Howard Fuller, former superintendent of Milwaukee’s public schools. Schools led and controlled by black people. He’s built a long career out of advocating for the vehicles he believes are the black community’s best hope for self-determination: vouchers and charter schools. Fuller’s remedy?

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Charter School Private School Heritage High School 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

Her seventh grade social studies class, like every other in Jefferson County Public Schools, the largest school district in Kentucky, would be online. She joined a program called “ Justice Now ” dedicated to empowering students to organize projects around social justice issues important to them.

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Middle School Heritage Teaching High School 138

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: PHILADELPHIA — If you’re going to celebrate yourself as “Moms Rocking the Cradle of Liberty” on your SWAG, it’s fair to expect a fight. Now you know what I feel like.”

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Social Justice K-12 Museum Public School 127

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. 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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Social Justice Advocacy Human Rights Critical Thinking 68