ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

When I consider multimodality, my mind always travels back to Gregory Bateson’s take on communication and the use of multiple modes of mediation in social interaction.

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Heinemann Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

How can we rely on our human capacity to love, to engage in teaching for social justice even in the presence of fear?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Credentials that adhere to the Open Badges or CLR [Comprehensive Learner Record] standards have a specific way of packaging that data to be both human-readable and machine-readable. The digital credential program is helping promote equity and social justice, reaching communities beyond the traditional educational pathway.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. In the author’s telling, the Cult of Smart is “the notion that academic value is the only value, and intelligence the only true measure of human worth.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

What Teachers Pay Teachers Is Learning From Bad Lessons and Upset Teachers by Stephen Noonoo The popular lesson planning site Teachers Pay Teachers has long struggled with allegations of plagiarism, racist lesson plans and poor content quality—drawing the ire of teachers and social media users. We Need to Make Schools Human Again.

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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.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 2, 2021

An assistant superintendent in the School District of Palm Beach County (Florida) noted that changing the culture of school systems “requires a level of humanity, and humility, and empathy, and partnership, and trust.” Creating an equitable school district requires new capacities and supports for leaders and educators.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Kimberlé Crenshaw stated that in its original formulation, Intersectionality worked to expose “ how single-axis thinking undermines legal thinking, disciplinary knowledge production, and struggles for social justice.” Studying human bodies provides a deep historical perspective on social dynamics whose echoes remain with us today.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

By running the LDO, my colleagues and I have found a sense of purpose, humanity and true rehabilitation. This maintains a healthy power dynamic, combats infantilization, reaffirms the humanity of participants and gives us the opportunity to learn and practice leadership and organizational skills that will help us transition back into society.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Elizabeth Pérez, a new teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project, and her mentor, humanities teacher Joe Garza, during a training session in July. The program’s emphasis on social justice has also taught him how to craft better lessons. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

The proportion of undergraduates who receive bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has fallen from a high of one in six to about one in 20 , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2021

When we talk with our students about what is going on in the news, and how Black and brown members of our community are being hurt, we respect children’s intelligence, humanity and curiosity and the love they have for themselves and others. I sent an email to caregivers after the class conversation.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Related: Debt without degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’. Such measures would go a lot further in uplifting black students and achieving social justice than more spending on studies and conferences. Institutions should not rely upon financial reserves alone to fund these initiatives.

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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. When I first got there.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

. Service, liberal education, being responsive to society’s needs, and a commitment to social justice: the tenets of a Jesuit education look a lot more like the innovative future than some might think. The founder of the Jesuit order, St. We ignore this at our own risk. Related: Is college enrollment among older adults increasing?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It is not logical that students at a social justice-oriented school are learning the complexities of race and socioeconomic status in an environment that is majority white and upper-class.”. But some students feel they have not gone far enough. Related: More Latino students earning high school diplomas wrestle stubborn equity gap.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

My journey into teaching was born from a deep-seated curiosity about the transformative power of education and a drive for social justice. I am now a teacher who models for my students the importance of embracing their humanity, feeling confident in their identity, and celebrating their accomplishments without fear of judgment.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Although we cannot rewrite the past, we must change this narrative of violence now — with rational and humane actions. Yet too much of our film and TV, social media, gaming and music today is oversaturated with violence and substance abuse. All of this desensitizes us to real life and strips away our humanity.

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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Related: How to save the humanities? I myself share the leftist leanings of the university world, and until a few years ago I supposed them to be just rational dimensions of scholarship or benign assumptions about social justice, fairness and equality. Make them a requirement toward a business degree. Choose as many as you like.

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Social Justice Humanities Cultures Economics 76

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2018

College Track shares my belief, and my culture’s belief, that education is a fundamental human right. It was also through College Track that I was introduced to the Dream Summer Fellowship, which teaches immigrant youth how to participate effectively in social justice work, including addressing immigrant rights, issues and responsibilities.

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Social Justice Human Rights Humanities Cultures 75

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”. Ángel Díaz, 16, works on an assignment in his Spanish-language humanities class at Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston. We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”. We talk about [our dual-language school] as a revolution.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Antioch College in Ohio, which focuses on activism and social justice and is governed collectively by its faculty and students, reopened after closing for three years, during which faculty and alumni sued and raised money to revive it. Antioch’s alumni, she said, learned “how to be more engaged and create change for the better.”.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Projects include making animations, creating statistical databases of favorite sports teams and designing programs that can identify pneumonia in scans of human lungs. Code Next is a perfect example of how better spaces can create social justice,” Kurani said.

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Education Social Justice Tutoring Advocacy 121

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Related: How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice. Leave this field empty if you're human: “With declining enrollment and a more competitive market, institutions are trying to find new prospects,” said Eduventures senior analyst Johanna Trovato, who has studied the rise in so-called niche degrees.

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Social Justice Economics Government Humanities 111

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

After college, I got my first job as a sixth grade humanities teacher in south Los Angeles. My master’s degree in education through a social justice graduate program radically changed how I approached teaching.

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Lesson Plan Social Justice Pedagogy Teaching 104

Edthena

JUNE 7, 2021

“To what extent can we utilize video of teacher candidates as a tool to discuss, reflect, and develop skills in how they interact with other humans?”. A proposal for teacher candidates includes self-reflection of recorded behaviors.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

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! web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers.

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Political Science Now

MAY 2, 2024

Her work focuses on understanding the intersectionality of environmental issues and social justice in North Carolina, aiming to address systemic inequalities through policy interventions. Laila Waddell hopes to continue her research while earning her Ph.D. in public policy.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

If human prejudice runs that deeply in Americans and those trusted to protect and serve us, we still have a lot of work to do. It meant helping my students craft elegant poetry infused with messages of social justice as their spoken word poetry coach. She will be a minority wherever she goes.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

They also talked to APSA Educate about their passion for civic education, social justice, scholarly analysis, and interest in studying political science at the undergraduate level. I am an avid debater on my school team, volunteer with a local social justice non-profit, and am a part of my school’s National Honors Society.

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High School Civic Engagement Civics Social Justice 44

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. “If

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Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 144

Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

In keeping with an ongoing critical dialogue within EdClusters networks, the convening strove to elevate the conversation on educational equity: We heard from leaders of The Fellowship: Black Male Educators for Social Justice about the inequitable representation of black men as classroom educators in U.S.

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EdTech Education Social Justice Research 74

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. She writes that Ada should be recognized as a complex person and consulted in the decision on whether she should matriculate to ninth grade. Others provide more abstract interpretations.

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