Social justice education must be taught in schools to allow students the knowledge to become social agents of change in their communities. Students today face countless issues, from fighting for ...

In today’s classrooms sit tomorrow’s leaders. To move confidently through a global society, future leaders require education that recognizes their passion to learn, grow and foster change through the ...

AMES, Iowa – Social justice educational initiatives often focus on giving a voice to students of color and low-income students, but Katy Swalwell, an assistant professor of education at Iowa State ...

Only recently have people noticed politically radical gender and race books like Julián Is a Mermaid or We Miss You, George Floyd on the shelves in elementary school libraries. Some blame rogue ...

A new state mandate to teach ethnic studies in California’s public schools is producing some unusual results. A high school “Introduction to Ethnic Studies” class offered in the Los Angeles Unified ...

Isaiah Howton wants to change hearts. Most of the social justice impact he’s seen recently among his University of Delaware classmates has been surface level, he said. “People make it kind of ...

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As racial inequity soars on the nation’s radar, math teachers are increasingly bringing social-justice questions into their classrooms to help students see the subject’s relevance and recognize that ...

Saint Louis University's Emmett J. and Mary Martha Doerr Center for Social Justice Education and Research is an independently funded center within SLU’s School of Social Work that promotes long-range ...

Florida’s new “parental rights” laws have complicated the once-routine process of adopting school textbooks. And in Palm Beach County, parents and teachers can review the social studies textbooks ...

In my previous post "Is the U.S. Really a Land of Opportunity for Children?" we learned that people in the U.S. show fewer gains in social mobility than people in other countries. Social mobility ...

While there is a lot that we can do to increase our own well-being, our social and political environments play an important role in our happiness, too. In particular, research suggests that supportive ...