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Laura Graebner Shepin – Hispania, 2024
This article touches upon the many social, political, and economic issues that negatively and disproportionately impact Afro-Mexicans (Sanders 2020). While reading, students are asked to circle the geographic areas mentioned in the article on a map of Mexico; this not only acquaints them with Mexican geography but also focuses their attention on…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Blacks, Learning Activities, Maps
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Joseph, Shawn – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2023
This case describes how, after being hired by a large urban school district in the southern United States, a Black male superintendent's relationship with his stakeholders deteriorated due to disagreements about his equity-based leadership approach. Three incidents occurred during his tenure, which he believed to be racially motivated. Yet, the…
Descriptors: Superintendents, African Americans, Urban Schools, Leadership Styles
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Belin, Kate; Ferrell, Courtney – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2021
Teaching gerrymandering in our high school geometry classrooms provides students with a unique opportunity to use mathematics to describe, analyze and make sense of the world around them. Our purpose is to provide our students the opportunity to apply learned definitions and formulas of area and perimeter to a sociopolitical context. We present a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, High School Students, Geometry
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Lenoir, Brandon W. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
This article outlines a semester-long advocacy project that walks students through the steps to develop a successful advocacy campaign, culminating in a trip to the state capitol to "lobby" legislators. The manuscript provides faculty with the basic structure for the project and suggests gradable assignments. The project builds on the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Theories
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Safi, Farshid; Bush, Sarah B.; Desai, Siddhi – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2018
In this article, the authors engage middle-grades students in a series of tasks to develop the mathematical idea of equal versus equivalent, culminating in a gerrymandering task with social, political, economic, and educational implications. The primary mathematical goals of this exploration were to involve students in solving real-world problems…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Ruggiero, Diana M. – Hispania, 2015
This study presents strategies for teaching highland Afro-Ecuadorian culture and for broaching the topic of race and racism through the documentary film "Más allá del fútbol." Produced in 2008 by the author, this film explores "afrochoteño" identity and culture as well as the issues of race and racism in Ecuador through a…
Descriptors: Films, Spanish, Blacks, History
Stabler, John B. – 1988
This paper describes an undergraduate political science course at Indiana State University (Terre Haute) entitled "Contemporary Political Problems." Current politics, economics, and social problems are emphasized. The underlying objective is to encourage students to participate in a knowledgeable and meaningful manner in the political…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Course Descriptions
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1987
During 1985-1986, 18 countries in the Asia and Pacific region undertook a survey of their teacher education programs. These survey studies provided statistical data and information, as well as details of trends and developments in teacher education, and were the subject of a workshop sponsored by Unesco's Asia and the Pacific Programme of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries
National Committee on Pay Equity, Washington, DC. – 1989
Pay equity, sometimes referred to as comparable worth, is a remedy for wage discrimination based on race or sex. It's basic premise is that pay should be based on job-related factors such as skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions, not on a worker's gender or race. Studies have consistently demonstrated that jobs predominantly held by…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employment Practices