The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015. From first through fifth grade, each teacher taught fewer subjects, perhaps just reading or reading and social studies, but was responsible for more students.

Elementary School 112

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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. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

Charter School 111

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

For example, in the 2015 Kentucky gubernatorial election, when the voter turnout was a dismal 30.6 Our conversations with young people across the state reveal that even in high school government, history, and debate classes, most students remain in the dark in terms of their most local governance. Where did we go wrong?

Civics 98

Civics Civic Engagement K-12 Government 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Oregon has a long history of offering overnight, outdoor learning programs as part of the regular school year schedule. Four percent of the Oregon labor force worked in agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting or crop production in 2015, according to the state employment office. Attendance at outdoor school statewide has been uneven.

Public School 108

Public School Middle School Archiving Tradition 108

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The hope is that if kids can become proficient in reading early on, they’ll be much more likely to succeed in all of their subjects, from science to social studies, because students need to know how to read to learn the material. “The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.”

Middle School 106

Middle School Elementary School Economics Humanities 106

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Department of Education data from 2015, since the 2008-2009 school year there’s been a 30 percent drop in enrollment nationwide: 75 percent of enrollees in traditional programs are white, 11 percent Hispanic, and 9 percent black. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! But rural districts aren’t the only problem.

Charter School 111

Charter School Tradition Public School Civics 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

Social Studies 84

Social Studies Tradition American History Government 84

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

In the aftermath of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, President Barack Obama tweeted a Nelson Mandela quote: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…” The tweet became the most liked in the history of Twitter. That’s horrific enough.

Economics 83

Economics Geography Civics History 83

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. It’s hard to hear above the two dozen students in Charles Willis’s class The History of Revere, which looks at how the community, first settled in the 1630s, has changed over time.

Teaching 111

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading. “The

Charter School 106

Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 106

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. It is impossible not to ask such questions at LA High.

Charter School 111

Charter School Public School High School Elementary School 111

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. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

Charter School 80

Charter School K-12 Elementary School Public School 80

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

Oregon has a long history of offering overnight, outdoor learning programs as part of the regular school year schedule. Four percent of the Oregon labor force worked in agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting or crop production in 2015, according to the state employment office. Attendance at outdoor school statewide has been uneven.

Middle School 80

Middle School Tradition History Teaching 80

Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Learning of a Social Studies opening in an intriguing, “alternative” public high school, Hawkins considered giving teaching another go.

Teaching 52

Teaching Project-Based Learning American History Historic Sites 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Teachers valued her blackness, she said, and taught her the history of African and African-American strength. She’d found, in Ghana, a community and history that affirmed her strength as a black woman. If she could raise enough money, she said, she wanted to take her students to Paris to show them France’s black history.

Charter School 98

Charter School High School Cultures Public School 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

K-12 97

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 97

Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

Additionally, a 2015 study found that focusing on student social and emotional well-being resulted in long-term economic gains due to improvements in health, education, and employment. We know teachers work incredibly hard to create a welcoming, calm, safe space.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Lessons like these help students gain critical thinking skills and give them an opportunity to learn about workers’ rights and labor history, subjects that are often missing from classroom discussions, educators say. history, first in Portland, Oregon, and later at the Harvest Collegiate High School, a small public school in New York City.

Education 89

Education Economics Civics History 89

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Backers of the takeover of Houston Independent School District say it’s needed to improve performance in a few schools in low-income neighborhoods that have a history of poor academic outcomes. We are not what they’re saying we are,’” said former Wheatley social studies teacher Kendra Yarbrough-Camarena.

Charter School 98

Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

I teach history and social studies at New York University. The largest student protests in American history were in May of 1970, following the Cambodian invasion and the tragic shootings of student protesters at Kent State and Jackson State. If you’re a student or a parent, it can be confusing.

Civics 92

Civics Cultures Political Science Advocacy 92

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

The subject line read: “Living history.”. history teacher scrambles to explain unprecedented attacks and desecration of democracy. It’s about teaching human beings, and it’s not science or English or social studies or math … It’s about teaching human beings how to become good people.”. April 20, 2015.

Charter School 145

Charter School Civics Middle School Civic Engagement 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I During his fourth year, Thorne started teaching an African American Studies course that he designed. He was voted Blythewood High’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year.

Education 141

Education Elementary School High School Leadership 141

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. The BIE closed Havasupai Elementary for nearly a month in 2015 because of insufficient staffing. She had only superficial familiarity with state and U.S.

Education 109

Education Elementary School Government K-12 109