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

AUGUST 27, 2020

They believe that kids, no matter what grade they are in, should learn history through an antiracist lens, not only learning about the role of white supremacy and racism in history, but doing so in a way that empowers them to pursue social justice. And they aren’t the only ones advocating the adoption of such curricula.

Teaching 145

Teaching Social Justice Elementary School American History 145

Edthena

MAY 18, 2021

Fairfax County Public School System – Fairfax County, Va. Broken Arrow Public Schools – Broken Arrow, Okla. Holden Rowe, a science teacher, is a positive leader at Broken Arrow High School. Griffith Public Schools – Griffith, Ind. Daniel Miller. ” Holden Rowe. Jill Taylor.

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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. He said staff members had set up food drives in school parking lots as the pandemic hit. “We

Social Justice 112

Social Justice Advocacy Human Rights High School 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In your schools, do something! Fight for social justice.” Many of the TeenSHARP participants gathered here, who are predominantly Black or Hispanic, worry that their chances of getting into top-tier schools have diminished with the court’s decision.

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Heritage Social Justice High School Political Science 124

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? Perhaps schools are simply more effective at advancing private purposes and we’re assigning them a role that they are ill-suited to play. If social justice is your aim, perhaps housing, health care, taxation and income may be more effective public policy levers than education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white. Related: How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

Social Justice 106

Social Justice Charter School High School Public School 106

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As a junior in college, TFA’s "mission” of ending educational inequity appealed to students like myself: hardworking and passionate about the intersection of social justice and education. For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools.

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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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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Through the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the National Public Education Fund, nine League districts traveled to Toronto: Cajon Valley Union School District. Compton Unified School District. The School Board of Broward County, Florida. Highline Public Schools.

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Social Justice Middle School Cultures Professional Development 77

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Census, we had taught them how to plumb demographic data and to understand why the census was key to both political apportionment and allocating federal funds for institutions like public schools. They fanned out across historically undercounted communities like Harlem and reported on the 2020 census. Still, we were taking a risk.

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Civic Engagement Social Justice Economics Civics 141

Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Although the number of immersion programs is rapidly increasing, up from three in 1971, there were only 448 immersion schools in the United States as of 2011, the latest year for which I could find data. have a shortage of qualified foreign language instructors at the K-12 level for the 2016–2017 school year. Teacher Shortage.

K-12 79

K-12 Social Justice Elementary School Cultures 79

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. Check out their overview. The Pullman (Washington) study group was inspired by national discussions around Confederate monuments and statues.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Library 52

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

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Social Justice Economics Public School Library 81

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy found that local governments provide nearly half of the funds for local school districts.

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Charter School Primary Sources Social Justice Museum 91

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The public school built in 1989 received an “F” rating on its most recent state evaluation, as did almost a third of the schools in the Jackson school district. No one understands this struggle better than Sharolyn Miller, chief financial officer for Jackson Public Schools. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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Charter School Public School Social Justice Private School 91

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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Multicultural Education Social Justice Elementary School Advocacy 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2020

This is my second update on my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership for Social Justice. As I said in my last post about this class , my six students have been co-creating the class with me… We have continued to approach the class through a variety of social justice lenses. Related Posts.

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Social Justice Leadership Cultures Public School 63

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

The push for equity among PTAs in those cities hit sometimes fierce resistance before advocates found ways to calm fears that wealthy parents might disinvest from — or leave — public schools. Research suggests the practice has no significant impact on overall giving to schools.). Less than a quarter of public schools in the U.S.

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Public School K-12 Education Elementary School 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino.

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Charter School Psychology K-12 Project-Based Learning 77

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.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

Department of Justice published its final rule for web and mobile accessibility. It updated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the law that requires state and local governments to supply equal opportunity — including in services like public schools, community colleges and public universities — for people with disabilities.

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EdTech K-12 Government Social Justice 139

ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

I took one course called Schools and Society and another called Social Justice in Urban Education. It kind of just tied together my experience as a tutor and my experience as a dual enrollment high school and college student — and showed me a side to education that I hadn’t seen before. Public Schools after we graduate.

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Tutoring Social Justice Elementary School High School 118

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

“My first job as a teacher was as a special education teacher in Chicago Public Schools, and I had third and fourth graders who were learning to read for the first time,” he says.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 2, 2021

According to Dr. Daryl Diamond, director of innovative learning for the Broward County (Florida) Public Schools , “That’s what I’m starting to hear now in the national conversations. If we want to live in a society where everyone can flourish, what role does the school system play?” Ensure that equity is owned at all levels.

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Education Social Justice Leadership Public School 117

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By 2021, it had committed to its most ambitious goal yet: overhauling the way Fairfax County Public Schools teaches students to read and supports struggling readers. Symone Walker, co-chair of Arlington’s NAACP education committee, sent a similar letter to Arlington Public Schools as the one that engendered change in Fairfax.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2016

He and the school’s other fourth-grade teacher, Chris Powers, have hosted guest speakers, including the district police captain, a gunshot-wound victim, and social-justice activists. One of the smallest elementary schools in the district, Samuel Powel has suffered the effects of Philadelphia’s ongoing budget crisis.

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Elementary School Social Justice Psychology Teaching 44

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

For displays and/or readings of banned books, Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended titles. With thousands of books banned, Social Justice Books has selected titles that address social issues , such as When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball.

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Education Library Social Justice K-12 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Various theories circulate among researchers as to why mental health has been declining, including the influence of social media, changing parenting styles, and a seemingly unstable world confronting climate change, social justice, and political polarization. The National Association of School Psychologists was formed in 1969.

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Social Justice K-12 High School Psychology 99

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. Related: Data analysis reveals keys to student success.

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Social Justice Leadership Middle School Professional Development 82

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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Education Elementary School High School Public School 145

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. This chaotic year is now the foundation for these young people’s transition to adulthood. Wouldn’t it be better to stay at home with my family?”.

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Charter School High School Social Justice American History 109

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

AUGUST 7, 2023

LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School. The school is steeped in history: It was the first African American public school in Kentucky, and counts boxer Muhammad Ali among its alumni.

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History American History Teaching K-12 98

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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Heritage Social Justice Government High School 77

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 70

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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