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Behind the Data: Uncovering New Truths in School Librarian Employment

ED Surge

Another outcome we didn't plan is that the SLIDE project has been written about in several popular magazines. It’s really an equity issue — a social justice issue. There are downloadable spreadsheets and infographic PDFs that show all the data for a district. Just making people aware is huge.

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Grit under attack

The Hechinger Report

For more than a year, social justice activists have been attacking one of education’s latest buzzwords: grit. Her theories on grit, which she defines as a combination of passion and persistence, have been popularized by a best-selling book and many magazine articles.

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APSA Member Spotlight: Dr. Timothy Lewis, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Political Science Now

Lewis (he/him/his) is an identity politics researcher, social justice activist, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. I am a social justice activist in the traditions of W.E.B. His research has also bolstered his intellectual activism. Learn more here.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

You will hold regular (a minimum of five) meetings based on a collective reading of Teaching for Black Lives and a recent issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.

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Curating a More Inclusive Library

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to the interview with Julia Torres, Cicely Lewis, and Julie Stivers ( transcript ): Sponsored by Alpaca and Scholastic Magazines+ This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you.

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Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel — A New Lesson

Zinn Education Project

Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books has a collection of books for pre-K-12 on Palestine. The spring issue of Rethinking Schools magazine will feature articles, lessons, and poetry for teaching about Palestine. For daily news, with classroom-friendly clips, we recommend Democracy Now! Subscribe today.

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How one college’s death and rebirth offers lessons for the rest

The Hechinger Report

For much of its history, Antioch was ahead of its counterparts in more enviable ways, including its legacy of promoting social justice. “A Antioch publishes the prestigious literary magazine The Antioch Review. A hippy school,” its own students, alumni and faculty call it fondly. Coretta Scott King went here.