The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

Education 133

Education High School Government Economics 133

Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Andrea Valdez and Abi Daniel discuss Texan identity in How to be a Texan (UT Press, 2016). David Schmidly and Robert Bradley situate javelinas alongside the other mammals in Texas in The Mammals of Texas (UT Press, 2016). The book considers how these identities shape Texan approaches to the environment and other animals.

Anthropology 40

Anthropology Humanities Cultures Geography 40

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They encourage students to listen to other citizens’ perspectives. Peters agreed.

Civics 52

Civics Civic Engagement American History Government 52

Living Geography

AUGUST 24, 2024

A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History Blog. It was used in a piece back in 2016 by Robert MacFarlane who described its origins in the writing of Glenn Albrecht. Solastalgia was mentioned in the Guardian last year in a piece by Damien Gayle. The context was the impact of coal mining on the surrounding area.

History 52

History Cultures Research 52

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Pedagogy Geography Tradition 40

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. Azariah Journey is a second-year graduate student in history at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, which is cutting 20 degree programs. “Is

Geography 137

Geography Political Science Sociology History 137

Strange Maps

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zooming out from individual casualties to the overall death toll, the dead of Everest start to form a morbid geography of sorts, which does more than simply horrify. Credit: pointofnoreturn.org) This first map shows the geography of the mountain, with a flag planted for each place where one or more climbers died.

Geography 121

Geography Humanities History 121

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

And it will differ from programs in military studies at colleges around the country, which focus on strategy, military systems and the history of warfare. Some scholars who have been studying veterans have published their work in the Journal of Veterans Studies , which was established in 2016 by Mariana Grohowski, who is also the editor.

Psychology 131

Psychology Advocacy Sociology Anthropology 131

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In a city that recorded 762 murders in 2016, the most in the nation , security measures like these were authorized years ago for every public high school. In a history class, for example, imagine two students taking a test based on a chapter reading on the Vietnam War. Both get a D, implying a similar lack of understanding.

Geography 100

Geography High School Charter School Cultures 100

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.”.

K-12 98

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Voters banned it again in 1998, only reversing the latest prohibition in 2016. California has removed the official barriers to offering this type of instruction since 2016, and the state now champions bilingualism and biliteracy, encouraging all students to strive for both. Her home state could have kept pace with Texas. But it didnt.

Elementary School 121

Elementary School Education K-12 History 121

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Kids are often satisfied with fairly simple answers to their questions, Roffman said, and parents shouldn’t feel the need to dive into the history of sexism when answering questions about boys and girls, or the issue of infertility when answering questions about reproduction.

Teaching 93

Teaching Elementary School Lesson Plan Middle School 93

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.

Political Science 58

Political Science Geography Sociology Professional Development 58

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

We’re setting up a system in which students, by the accident of geography, are getting very different kinds of education,” Ross said. “Do Do we really want that to be the case? Is that fair?” Survey data show how these inequities play out.

Library 107

Library Advocacy Humanities High School 107

Life and Landscapes

DECEMBER 30, 2024

It is an important part of Kentucky’s early history, and its geography makes that point certain. Our history, our culture, and our route into the interior. But there is one at Airedale, on Route 2016. For 260 miles [to Carrollton at the Ohio River] , it drains 7,000 square miles from the center of our living.

Geography 52

Geography History Cultures Research 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, worked for roughly two decades in public schools, as a geography teacher and football coach. 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.

K-12 138

K-12 Education Public School History 138