The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

While the federal government awards billions of dollars annually to get schools and libraries online, through its E-rate program, Albemarle’s project is technically ineligible for that because it’s “off campus,” even though it will be an extension of the school network with all its security, filters and firewalls. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Last fall, after the university’s admissions team worked to craft a more intentional recruiting plan, officials say they enrolled the most diverse freshman class in LSU’s nearly 160-year history. News and World Report’s list — but he didn’t feel at home when he toured in 2014. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

It might be a fourth grader in Los Angeles struggling with English, an eighth grader in Palm Beach, Florida, asking about history, and a 10th grader in Las Vegas needing help with French verb conjugations. Salvatore was born in Italy and immigrated to the United States when he was 15 in 2014. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. “It

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Apart from its golden-domed headquarters, the campus also includes tyrbes (holy tombs of previous Debedabas); extensive archives on the Order’s history, including audio recordings of Bektashi musical traditions; and a museum and a library. That message may soon be echoed by another religious leader — now also with his own state.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

It gets people’s attention anytime you say, ‘Free,’ ” said Jimmy Kidd, the director of admissions, who spoke between in-person student orientation sessions in the library of the school’s downtown Louisville campus in late June. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. Reilly’s first day is Aug.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Having lived through the desegregation order, Hirahara, who is now an award-winning mystery writer , wishes more people knew about the history of the city’s schools. Dr. Brian McDonald, superintendent of Pasadena Unified School District from 2014 to 2023, stands in front of Pasadena High School on Monday, May 13, 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

As recently as 2014, twice as many moved out than moved in. It’s just the long history of having to defend ourselves against the rest of the country,” said Samantha Denzler, one of Pradon’s colleagues at GSoft, where her title is employee experience specialist. Only thanks to international immigration has the population grown.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Two Core Document Collections cover the entire scope of American history.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Funded by a $15 million state grant awarded to the Ohio Appalachian Collaborative and shared among its member districts, Meadowbrook decided to convert their seldom-used library into Colt College, a facility built for its dual-enrollment program. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

In its final ruling in the case in late 2014, the South Carolina Supreme Court ordered the Legislature to fix rural “educational ghettos” across the state. At the new Dillon Middle School, eighth-graders in Teresa Stephens’ South Carolina history class looked to the future of their community. “On Republican Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

She planned to major in digital media arts, but before she could start, Delta State eliminated that major, along with 20 other degree programs , including history, English, chemistry and music. At Delta State, for instance, enrollment is down by nearly a quarter since 2014. It’s like we’re not getting the help or benefits we need.”

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courtesy of Denver Public Library. Before touring History Colorado Center’s exhibit, The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever , in Denver this summer, I had never heard of Silas Soule. Ray Tyler The post The Sand Creek Massacre appeared first on Teaching American History.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Zach Leverenz speaking to students at New York City middle school MS 258 during the New York launch of EveryoneOn, in June 2014. Meanwhile, millions of American students trek to public libraries and fast-food restaurants to get online after school, or they go without — a problem known as the “homework gap.”. Photo: Clay Williams.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Barbuncho, the Dog behind the Story Back in 2014, my heart skipped a beat when I began to read a widely circulating article about a “stray” dog who “adopted a team of Swedish trekkers in the Amazon.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Duncan MacLaury, a history teacher in his fourth year at Rindge & Latin, said he often sees students struggling with depression and suicidal ideation. Besides helping students reenter school after mental health-related absences, the program, started in 2014, focuses on what directors call pre-emptive help.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Library of Congress. Library of Congress. The LA Times bombing is not emphasized in many history classrooms today. One possible answer invokes the old adage, history is written by the winners. Otis became a symbol of anti-union capitalists unwilling to negotiate wages or working conditions. Head and shoulders portrait.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

There have been some periods of sobriety and calm, at these times Sherlae and her mom go on lengthy bike rides or walk to the library to research Sherlae’s book reports. “It Sherlae has lived with her grandmother since she was about three, when her mother, who is bipolar and schizophrenic, stopped taking her medicine and turned to alcohol.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

But given the weight of history, the persistence of poverty and the depth of disaffection here, it’s fair to ask: Is a three-year grant really enough to pull Montana’s reservation schools back from the brink? There is no grocery store, no movie theater, no bowling ally, no public library. I needed help.”. Census Bureau.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Rutgers University hosts a branch of the county public library. Northeastern was called out for paying nothing at all in 2014 toward the $2.4 Many of their neighbors already mistrust them after histories of unbridled expansion and heavy-handed treatment such as the kind that occurred in West Philadelphia. billion), MIT ($13.5

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Teaching American History

MARCH 18, 2025

Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress. Ray Tyler Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland Universitys Masters Program in American History and Government. The post Margaret Sanger: The Woman Rebel appeared first on Teaching American History.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Students first learn about Mississippi history in fourth grade, and that’s the first time they are supposed to delve deeply into the history of the movement to end racial segregation and discrimination. The Civil Rights Movement is a case history of what it means to be American, and what it means to exercise constitutional rights.”.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2021); Lucretia Giese, “Winslow Homer’s Prisoners from the Front: an American History Painting?” Reading: Susan Schulten, Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-century America (Chicago, 2012): pp.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library. George Washington Carver High School, located in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward community, is known for its long history of educating African American students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

For two years, the club, known as PRISM (People Respecting Individuality and Sexuality Meeting), gathered in the town’s public library, because its dozen members couldn’t find a faculty adviser to sponsor it. The Legislative Record from Monday, April 17, 2023, on display at the Owen County Public Library.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2025

And so maybe that’s why we’ve seen more and more students shy away from art history. So I studied history and Italian and then went to work for a small documentary film company in New Hampshire as a production assistant. No, nothing wrong with art history. How about you?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. We’re doing everything we can,” says Mr. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. We have a long history of not catering to these populations,” Mora said. “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Bayard Middle School, when he arrived there, had a library, but no librarian, so most of the day it’s a dark, unused room. Newsweek magazine dubbed the city “ Murder Town USA ” in 2014. But they had a librarian, and Taheem eagerly awaited his weekly visits to check out books. Chapter books slouch on unattended shelves.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

By the 1960s, the American Petroleum Institute was looking to shake its reputation as a “monopoly which reaped excessive profits” and set out to cultivate a network of “thought leaders” that included educators, journalists, politicians and even clergy, according to an organizational history copyrighted by API in 1990. The idea caught on.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Within the walls of the Academy of Seminole, eight rented rooms in a community college library, it can be hard to see why the little school has kicked up so much dust in this former oil boomtown, population 7,300. The Academy of Seminole is housed in this library on the Seminole State College campus. SEMINOLE, Okla.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

This fall, enrollment was on pace to top 950, a two-thirds increase since 2014. I’ve been able to teach history, but I don’t know if that’s necessarily a sign of success in these times,” she said. Before the pandemic, she’d met friends at the library or Geno’s Steaks or for soccer in the park. Credit: Laura Schad.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

High schoolers in a social studies class at Patchogue-Medford work on a lesson about the history of nationalism. Since 2014 it has added more than 70 employees, including 40 educators and counselors who speak Spanish, according to district officials. The cost of crossing into the U.S. illegally can amount to more than $6,000.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

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