The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

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Civics U

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Immigration and immigration reform have been issues in past American history, and are still issues in American government and politics. This article will not enter that debate, but will review key elements in immigration history and law. This history can be found at [link]. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) There are also monthly themes that drive lessons and activities — African-American history in February, health and nutrition in March. Houston said the average class size is just three or four students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The $500 million plan — the largest single undertaking in the history of the housing authority, according to officials — also includes the redevelopment of the neighborhood’s 510 units of public housing and roughly 10 blocks of a commercial corridor. “In Her memories of the Anne Frank exhibit stayed with her.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. — It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school.

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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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Future of History

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Unlike the day after the 2016 election, “I’m feeling not so much shock as the need to shore up my teaching and once again dig into difficult topics.” Here’s how Sarah Cooper taught her 8th grade social studies class today, as the nation went about determining a presidential winner. The post The Day After: How Do We Teach Now?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2020

The recent student protests caught the attention of Robin Kelley, a professor of American history and African-American studies at UCLA. The students hope that the school will be forced to disclose more about its endowment and how much it’s benefiting from the prison system. Two forms of protest.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 18, 2025

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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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. ii] Kim and Hsieh describe the following “polarizing binaries of Asian American representation”: yellow peril perpetual foreigner model minority Erika Lee, Ph.D., Asian Americans were often celebrated “for holding the formula for success” (p.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss. Photo: Delece Smith-Barrow/The Hechinger Report.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 1, 2024

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. Perhaps American history students should learn about the LA Times bombing so they understand the complexities of the labor struggle in this era.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

The evidence of American history is that in the absence of intentional policy choices we get more segregation – not less; we get more inequality – not less,” King said in a meeting curated by New Schools for New Orleans on July 2 during his visit to the Essence Festival.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

Johnson is a tenured Instructor in Political Science, History, and Geography at Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead, MN. He has served APSA as Chair of the TLC Program Committee (2015), and as co-Editor of the Journal of Political Science Education (2016-2022). He holds a Ph.D.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history when black lives mattered.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Kirk: Sitting around a big oak table, Epstein and I dust off the 1966 leather-bound course catalog and compare it to the 2016 paperback. Kirk: As we flip through the 2016 catalog.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Ray Tyler Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland UniversitysMasters Program in American History and Government. The post Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: Sorting the Real from the Myth appeared first on Teaching American History.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 1926, he originated the celebration of Black History Week and is the author of 16 books about African Americans. Last year Vice President Mike Pence commemorated the start of Black History Month (BLM) by acknowledging Abraham Lincoln, a white man, for submitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

There were Somali, Iraqi, Burmese, Bhutanese, Ethiopian and Latin American teenagers — all learning English, math, history and science in an eleven-room, domed building. Students at GEO International High School, who are all recent immigrants or refugees, present their history projects to the class. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump looks on as Betsy DeVos, his nominee for Secretary of Education, speaks at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. How we teach in the aftermath of Charlottesville can be a bright footnote in the sordid history of American bigotry, or it can be just more of the same.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Last year Vice President Mike Pence commemorated the start of Black History Month (BLM) by acknowledging Abraham Lincoln, a white man, for submitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. It’s obvious that black history is needed all year long. It was a sign of things to come. Racism is taught.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 22, 2023

Two subjects where I felt confident as a reviewer, in addition to reading, were history and civics. I was momentarily dismayed, but not surprised, to learn that the NAEP scores in history and civics had declined, as they had in reading and math, after the disruptions and closings caused by the pandemic.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 5, 2023

Tim Slekar, Director of the Educator Preparation Program at Muskingum University in Ohio comments here on the recent report that NAEP scores in history and civics dropped during the pandemic. Where honest teaching about political events and history is considered divisive and may be criminalized? I wrote the above in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. Most Americans were appalled. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

White students also lack a good grasp of history — they scored 22 points lower than the minimum level of achievement or “cut score” on the NAEP U.S. history exam — so they may have trouble understanding the roots of systemic racism and how ruthless politicians throughout American history have wielded race to divide people and gain power.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

government and African American history in Hamilton, Ohio. Mark Gomez, a history and social studies curriculum specialist for the Salinas Union High School District, works in Monterey, a predominantly blue county in California. government and African American history in right-leaning Hamilton, Ohio.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

percent in March 2016, for new arts, law and public policy graduates it was 8.5 But while a history major might have trouble finding a job right out of school, these advocates say, his or her degree may end up paying off years later. and ‘Will my kid get a job?’ ”. percent in March 2011 to 4.2 I’m skeptical of our ability to predict.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

In a speech to the American Federation of Teachers , Harris decried the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” laws passed by Florida and other states in recent years. Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s.

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