Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But community organizers, civic activists, and social movements—as well as corporate and political elites—have long understood the importance of meetings. The irreplaceable role of the meeting for spurring policy change is to hold the listening , to open a space of collective possibility.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

If public schools are to advance the future interests of all Americans, then it must be considered a civic imperative to engage our students with a far wider diversity of other backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We need to expect more from our civic institutions and from one another.

Civics 76

Civics Middle School Leadership Public School 76

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

It’s the reason why American Federation of Teachers invested $450,000 into Jefferson Parish School Board election in 2014. Numerous empirical studies have concluded there is a positive correlation between civic and social engagement (CSE). Related: Veteran black principal lifts New Orleans school with strength and love.

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Charter School Civics Public School Education 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

For decades I have been sharing my experiences with educational institutions and civic organizations. The summer of 2014 was the 50th reunion of civil rights workers from the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The National Education Association presented me with the Carter G.

American History 99

American History K-12 Civics History 99

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Read more about Safari Books’ work.

Education 104

Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 104

Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

Pedagogy 103

Pedagogy Anthropology Geography Private School 103

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. It’s simply harder for individuals to seek redress against what is really a coalition between powerful neighborhood groups, civic leaders and school system heads.

Economics 82

Economics Geography Civics History 82

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Lindblom is the 2013 Arizona Teacher of the Year and a 2014 Graduate of the MAHG program. She also recommended the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University as the ideal MA program for a working teacher interested in encouraging civil discussion of the perennial issues in American civic life.

American History 98

American History History Civics Political Science 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2017

According to a new report by Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, during the 2014-15 school year, the difference between the graduation rates of black and white students in the state was one of the smallest in the country. A cohort is the number of first-time ninth graders in a school year.

Civics 55

Civics High School Education K-12 55

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

But in 2014, after the government-appointed principal barred a Tewa teacher from campus, tribal leaders took control of the school from the federal government, said Porter Swentzell, the school’s executive director and an enrolled member of the Pueblo. For decades, the school (then known as Santa Clara Day School) was run by the U.S.

Charter School 136

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 136

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

But now some workforce organizations, researchers and regional civic leaders are pushing back — persuading companies to look beyond academic credentials and to instead hire people based on their skills. In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Degree inflation.

Economics 112

Economics Civics Research Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students. Their more than 50,000 graduates in 2014 can expect total earnings of $130 billion over their lifetimes, 56 percent more than if those students didn’t earn their college credentials, according to the study. For instance, they generate $14.8

Economics 83

Economics Civics History Research 83

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

The school board may have officially done the offing but nonprofit groups, civic leaders and school chiefs have their fingerprints all over shutting out black folk. By 2014, the percentage of black teachers dropped to 49 percent according to figures calculated by the Data Center, a non-profit research outfit based in New Orleans.

Education 78

Education Civics Humanities Public School 78

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The best civics teachers also help students learn the skills they need to protect their rights. Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan.

Civics 52

Civics Civic Engagement American History Government 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

News and World Report’s list — but he didn’t feel at home when he toured in 2014. But Lockett’s older brother had enrolled at LSU in 2010, liked the school, and was close to finishing his bachelor’s in electrical engineering when Lockett visited in the spring of 2014.

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Library Government High School Civics 111

Diane Ravitch

MARCH 8, 2024

An additional observation by Miller might have also been influenced by knowing the tired rhetoric of one of the bill’s co-sponsors in the Ohio Senate, Andrew Brenner, who famously said in 2014 that public education was “socialism” and should be privatized.

Social Studies 86

Social Studies Critical Thinking Public School Teaching 86

ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She is author of Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890-1930 (1989/1997), The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission (2006), and Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal in New York (2018). Bernard will discuss exhibitions and memorials about slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow.

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Museum American History History Library 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

It suffocates the civic impulse. One former local board member, Joy Springer, says she ran on a platform of fighting inequality in Little Rock Schools in 2014. “I think one of the things emergency management does, if it doesn’t destroy democracy, it definitely suppresses democracy,” said David Bullock, pastor of Greater St.

Charter School 75

Charter School Public School Government High School 75

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

The 2016 election and the tumultuous start to Donald Trump’s presidency, which hits the 100-day mark next week, have presented civics teachers in red, blue and purple states alike with a double-edged sword. For project-based civic learning, there’s the web-based “Civic Action Project” (CAP) created by the Constitutional Rights Foundation.

Civics 89

Civics Education K-12 Primary Sources 89

MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

Smith, Professor of Political Science, Emporia State University Between 10 and 15 years ago, Political Science experienced a renewed interest in civic education. Graham and I collaborated, and I reached out to local high school civics teachers in Kansas and western Missouri in hopes of meeting with them and sharing our ideas.

Civics 52

Civics Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science 52

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

World Religions 120

World Religions World History Civics History 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2014, San Francisco heeded that call , mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade. Might we trade off a bit of short-term math achievement for a greater good of a numerate, civic society? Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice. She advocated for change.

Social Justice 145

Social Justice Middle School Tradition Civics 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. He got his associate’s degree from Essex County Community College and transferred to Rutgers, which he chose for its connection to Newark and so he could study with urban historian Clement Price (who died in 2014).

Tradition 98

Tradition Sociology Civics Critical Thinking 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

From 2014 to 2016, Ebola ravaged several West African countries, killing thousands and spreading isolated cases to both Europe and the United States. Brown crafted civics lessons about outbreak response for his eighth graders at Sarasota Military Academy Prep, a charter middle school. We were really amazed by that.” Starting at 8 a.m.

Civics 117

Civics K-12 Middle School Lesson Plan 117

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed.

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High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 80

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Northeastern was called out for paying nothing at all in 2014 toward the $2.4 To commemorate its 30th anniversary, Campus Compact has asked its members to develop “civic action plans” by March reaffirming their commitment to what it calls the public purposes of higher education. billion), MIT ($13.5 Nearly 450 have signed on.

Civics 84

Civics Civic Engagement Economics Museum 84

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

State officials have taken steps to raise salaries, passing a law in 2014 that would reward high-performing schools or those that showed improvement. These defeats have been discouraging to educators who feel their contributions to the state’s economic and civic well-being have been overlooked.

Charter School 106

Charter School Economics Middle School Public School 106

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

It matters for employment stability and civic engagement. “It’s a crazy cycle,” said Adrian Huerta, an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California who focuses on college access and gender. “We We know that when you have a college education, there are good outcomes with health. You’re more likely to live longer.

Economics 82

Economics Civic Engagement High School Civics 82

C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Most importantly, I want the course content to be relevant to their lives as future teachers, and I want them to see themselves as civic and political actors.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Social Justice Controversial Topics Pedagogy 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2021

My former high school students in rural Arkansas now teach at the schools they attended during their childhoods, in the same political conditions of Blackness in which I taught them in my civics class in 2014, as they tried to process the Ferguson, Missouri, police killing of Mike Brown , a man they had never met but who looked like them.

Civics 107

Civics Heritage Lesson Plan High School 107

TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. At its core, social studies aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to actively participate in civic affairs.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Civics K-12 Geography 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

And that knowledge, she believes — combined with new strategies to help students regulate their emotions — has contributed to a 43 percent drop in the number of children referred for discipline from 2014 to 2016, according to school data. percent from 2012-13 to 2014-15.

Elementary School 108

Elementary School Middle School Civics Public School 108

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive.

K-12 98

K-12 High School Library Elementary School 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Harvard , a lawsuit filed in the Massachusetts District Court in 2014 against Harvard College’s admissions practices. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. Related: The future includes good (human) teachers. At the tip of the iceberg is Students for Fair Admissions v. Related: Go vote.

Civics 111

Civics Research Humanities Education 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Charitable contributions by individuals, foundations, bequests and corporations was $358 billion in 2014, according to the National Center for Charitable Contributions. Education takes the second largest cut at 15 percent. Religious organizations received 32 percent.).

Social Justice 87

Social Justice Civic Engagement Advocacy Civics 87

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In July, the administration announced that it was ending the Obama-era approach to affirmative action in colleges and universities, despite research showing that campuses with diverse populations have more civic-minded student bodies and are more effective in educating students. We must reach out to all underserved groups.

K-12 77

K-12 Education Civics Research 77

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

In 2014, white students became the minority in our public schools (partly a result of white students’ overrepresentation in private schools). These kinds of head-scratching, politically ignorant actions lay bare the very reason that people need a quality liberal arts education. It was an effective tactic to suppress a people — then and now.

Education 85

Education Government Private School Civics 85