Human Rights

Giving Compass’ Take: • This report from Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees profiles 10 donor programs with a range of successful approaches that support refugees and asylum-seekers.  • How can other donor…

The struggle for women’s rights has gone on for thousands of years and true gender equality is still far from being realized. On the one hand, “glass ceilings” being shattered…

When Alphonso Richard Jr. walked into his first teacher education course at Clemson University, he experienced a shock. “Being in a class where you’re the only male, I didn’t know…

“Hey, I did have one question …” That was the tentative opening to an email I recently received from a high school teacher. The Ninth Candle, the Holocaust education organization I…

The chief justice’s comments come as recent international test results show teens in the U.S. — and across the world — are not showing proficiency on tasks asking them to recognize the…

Restroom access has played a central role in many significant civil rights movements. Scholars point to the use of fears of the mixing of different bodies in public as a…

Giving Compass’ Take: • Key considerations for developing civic education that can effectively serve the needs of diverse societies. • What role can you play in supporting the development and…

When I was a charter school leader, I constantly heard reformers justify district takeovers, teacher firings, ineffective voucher programs, and abusive “no excuse” discipline policies by saying, “It’s all about…

On September 15, 2001, Balbir Singh Sodhi was planting flowers outside the gas station he owned in Mesa, Arizona, when Frank Silva Roque, a white Boeing aircraft mechanic, saw Sodhi’s…

Dozens of children have been killed and hundreds arbitrarily detained in Myanmar since a coup more than five months ago, UN rights experts said, as the political turmoil in the country…

Even as students are sorting through information online more than ever, the number of school librarians who could help them learn the fundamentals of research and media literacy have been…

In 2020, mothers of younger children were primary and primarily caregivers. In this piece, we document declines in labor force participation among mothers and provide evidence of how mothers spent…