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How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice

The Hechinger Report

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 Eventually, he’d like to serve as either the U.S.

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Teach Truth Campaign Display

Zinn Education Project

The American Library Association, a campaign cosponsor, provided Free People Read Freely bookmarks. Credits Installation at the NEA Conference on Racial and Social Justice. It was later displayed at the NEA 2023 Conference on Racial and Social Justice and at various venues in New York. Washington, D.C.

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Behind the Data: Uncovering New Truths in School Librarian Employment

ED Surge

Together, they applied for a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, as part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. We also did a special report about the impact of COVID-19 on school libraries and employment. We hoped to answer whether there is a full decline or an evolution of library positions.

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Curating a More Inclusive Library

Cult of Pedagogy

Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools. She is the co-author, along with Valerie Tagoe, of the 2022 book Liven Up Your Library: Design Engaging and Inclusive Programs for Tweens and Teens ( Amazon | Bookshop ). It’s a win-win-win-win-win.”

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The Challenges Educators Face

A Principal's Reflections

integration of universally designed practices to help all students (which covers social justice, restorative practices, SEL) and somehow helping more teachers embrace that accommodations are not cheating. Even taking responsibility for picking trash up that they dropped. Inclusion and REAL collaborative teaching.

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Teaching the Tulsa Massacre

Zinn Education Project

Children learn about the Black businesses, libraries, good schools, bus system, auto shop, hospital, newspapers, movie theaters, hotel, and post office. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. The illustrations bring Black Wall Street to life. Then comes the white terrorists.

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Two Programs with Fresh Solutions to the Teacher Shortage

Cult of Pedagogy

“It was written to appeal to Gen Z, so (it focused on) the idea of social justice, of using the classroom as a means for change, literacy as a means for change.” ” Eckert believes this appeal to social change is what makes EdRising different from recruitment programs of the past. Come back for more.