Stephanie Schneider, SUNY Old Westbury, examines Paulo Freire’s fascinating work on social justice, and the democratic potential of education ...

Discover how the Social Justice Charter School in Washington D.C. empowers students to become scholar activists, driving social change and creating solutions to injustice.

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 ...

Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (JCSCORE), Vol. 5, No. 2 (2019), pp. 133-166 (35 pages) Despite increased attention on social justice in higher education, underrepresented ...

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 ...

While many preservice teachers turn to teaching because they believe in the power of education in the pursuit of social justice, they also lack concrete ideas for how to bring social justice education ...

“My son has wanted to be a lawyer since he was 11. Then one day he came home and told me, ‘But Mommy, there are these systems put in place that prevent Black people from accomplishing anything.’ ...

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 ...

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 ...