Education

 By Morgan Grady Across the U.S. and in Cleveland in particular, rising antisemitism and anti-Black racism are not separate phenomena. They are interconnected expressions of extremist ideology. The far right imagines America as a white Christian nation, and both forms of hate fuel this vision. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, antisemitism acts as… Read more: Dividing Lines: How Antisemitism and Anti-Blackness Fuel American Extremism

By Sandra Kluk Neighborhood Leadership Development Program & Community Development Corporation Leadership Program Seek 2025 Applicants Two no-cost leadership development programs are now accepting applications for their 2025 cohorts. If you’re passionate about improving your community and ready to take an active role, the Neighborhood Leadership Development Program (NLDP) and the Community Development Corporation Leadership… Read more: Who Will Lead? Neighborhood Programs Open Doors for 2025

Quelina Jordan-Shaw receives $4,964 from Fund for Teachers to design her own learning experience. Quelina Jordan-Shaw, a high school teacher at Cleveland Metropolitan Remote School, has been selected as a 2025 Fund for Teachers Fellow. She will receive a $4,964 grant to travel to Ghana this summer, where she will study how schools there teach… Read more: Cleveland Teacher Wins National Grant to Study Education in Ghana

By Shamani Salahuddin On Feb. 14, the U.S. Department of Education launched marching orders threatening all public institutions to eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives or risk losing federal funding. This mandate left public school and university administrators wondering what this means for students’ education in the future.  DEI initiatives in schools aimed to… Read more: Dismantling DEI Initiatives Will Impact Students’ K-12 Education

The Oxford Dictionary defines diversity as the “practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders and sexual orientations.”  Diversity allows students of various backgrounds, religions, learning styles, and abilities to obtain the same education as their peers by ensuring that higher education institutions… Read more: Diversity in Education is Now Seen as a Threat