The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. The post Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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Teaching American History

MARCH 19, 2024

Teaching American History’s Documents and Debates volumes present s American history as a series of topics. Army Special Forces soldier assigned to Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan provides security during an advising mission in Afghanistan, April 10, 2014. America and the World A U.S.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. Lindblom is the 2013 Arizona Teacher of the Year and a 2014 Graduate of the MAHG program. Lindblom’s teaching approach “was everything I wanted to do.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

— When Sandra Jenkins started teaching at Betty H. Fairfax High School in Phoenix 14 years ago, she had three Master’s degrees and four teaching certificates. And yet, few districts have achieved the goal of building a teaching workforce that looks like its students. PHOENIX, Ariz. He’s listening to us.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

After all, Pennsylvania has a long history of refusing to fund public schools adequately. They do not have the necessary funding to offer professional development to boost culturally relevant and responsive teaching. Related: “Kids who have less, need more”: The fight over school funding. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Boardis the dearth of Black teachers: More than 38,000 Black educators lost their jobs after the decision came down, as white administrators of integrating schools refused to hire Black professionals for teaching roles or pushed them out. Related: Become a lifelong learner. But the A.P. course, an elective, became ensnared in politics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

These are facts I observed and wrote about in my book “Remembering Freedom Summer,” but in 2021 many states have outlawed teaching such facts in their public schools and in trainings for educational staff. I am a primary resource when it comes to American History and civil rights, particularly in education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Discussions of tribal culture were limited to a few isolated craft projects during a history unit and inaccurate portrayals of Indians at the “First Thanksgiving,” he recalled.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. This was pretty normal stuff for a fourth grade history lesson, except for one thing: The entire lesson — from the textbooks to the teacher’s instructions to the students’ short essays — was in Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The film is a straightforward history lesson and explainer, and a great way to understand this highly fraught debate over fairness and meritocracy. The film also provides a clear picture of the arguments and history behind the specific lawsuits the court will soon hear, and shows how they have divided Asian American and other communities.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

These have intensified in formal schooling, emphasizing lessons in individual empowerment and enterprise , and teaching self-improvement as the most appropriate path to futures beyond precarity. When we met in 2014, he was a confident grade twelve student who saw his Launch education as “a ticket” to a life beyond the township.

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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. Apple joined President Obama’s ConnectED initiative and pledged $100 million of teaching and learning solutions to 114 underserved schools across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

When Matt Johnson’s girlfriend was killed in gang crossfire in 2014, leaving him a single father to a 3-year-old girl, he knew it was time to do something different with his life. Related: One state uses data about job needs to help decide what colleges should teach. Matthew Johnson speaks in his writing class.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But teaching wasn’t the only thing on Snyder’s plate. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Students in the district who took Algebra 1 in eighth grade in 2014 (the last year it was offered as a stand-alone course to eighth-graders) had a repeat rate of 40 percent. As a result, more students in the district are taking a fourth year of high-school mathematics — and taking advanced classes beyond Algebra 2 — than ever in its history.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data. Spokane is updating its entire K-12 curriculum to teach those kinds of skills.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2020

My research with refugees and those living amid conflict shows that schools can work in concrete ways to prepare students for these unknowable futures by teaching young people how to adapt to change, to identify and disrupt inequalities and to create relationships of belonging. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

You want to teach your fellow teachers the error of their ways, but you’ve seen the consequences of speaking out: termination, transfer and blackballing. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

From Greensboro lunch counters to Tiananmen Square, youth have led significant campaigns for social and political change throughout history. Students are left with an impression of civic life as one of memorizing and adopting mainstream practices presented in history books. It’s the epitome of a teachable moment.

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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. Its tutors all have a college degree or are completing college and have at least a year of experience teaching or tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. But educators in Lindsay say that, while there’s more work on the front end, the district’s model actually makes teaching easier in the long run.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

We are constantly experimenting,” said Catherine Arnold, a Boston Latin history teacher who oversees the environmental club that runs the farm as an extracurricular activity. who teaches a high school vocational course in hydroponics and aquaculture. My students can collect data on the farm from anywhere, whenever they want to.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Enrollment in the Onalaska School District — which includes the town and outlying areas — rose by about 14 percent between May 2014 and May 2018, to 851 students. Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. Kenny’s been teaching at Onalaska High School for seven years.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 12, 2023

Understanding the recent past This has got me thinking about some lessons I’ve observed over the last year or so which have touched on late C20th history – the Fight for Rights in 1960s and 70s Britain at Key Stage 3 or the Making of Modern Britain at A Level, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And there it was: one of American society’s most vexing topics, histories and issues — race —distilled by an outside voice to the purity of a question as simple as “why is the sky blue?” This is both the joy and challenge of teaching international undergraduates a semester-long course called “American Cultures.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable. Related: As students flock to credentials other than degrees, quality-control concerns grow. Some of that transparency has prompted pushback.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2016

Developed by University of Texas-Austin psychology professor David Yeager, purpose for learning teaches students to learn with the goal of making a broader, positive impact on the world. Grit: A Short History of a Useful Concept. One lesser known strategy that can further improve these interventions is purpose for learning. Citations.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching. Now, if he finishes a history lesson first, for example, he goes on to the next one – or switches to another subject.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. Maybe teaching.”. Between them, Mitch and Jennie have two master’s degrees and nearly two decades of teaching experience, yet their salaries add up to just eighty thousand dollars a year. Courtesy of the Askew family. FLAGSTAFF, AZ. —

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. This was pretty normal stuff for a fourth grade history lesson, except for one thing: The entire lesson — from the textbooks to the teacher’s instructions to the students’ short essays — was in Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind. Likewise, schools must adopt more work-based learning programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

One 2014 study found that kids who were held back when they were young were less likely to graduate from high school. “The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. .

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Black and brown teachers don’t parachute into a culture they don’t know, so they are able to connect with the students they’re teaching. Discussions on how to increase the percentage of teachers of color should start on the campuses of MSIs, which conferred 16 percent of all degrees in 2014. And Where are the teachers of color ?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.”. Jonathan Rees, professor of history, Colorado State University-Pueblo. CompTIA projects that 1.8

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Humanities History Critical Thinking Teaching 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

When learners show different achievement levels, should we teach them separately or together? In 2014, 63 percent of students were in advanced classes, whereas in 2015 only 12 percent were in advanced classes and everyone else was taking Math 8. It is a question that has long intrigued and divided people.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. Now 24 years old, he is one of 11 new residents joining the PUC Schools network through the school system’s Alumni Teach Project.

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