The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Narrow nationalist parties of various sorts are on the rise around the world, and here in the United States religion, ethnicity, geography and politics increasingly define us. for higher education during the 2016-17 academic year, marking the 11th consecutive year that the number of international students in the U.S. Weekly Update.

Geography 72

Geography Community Engagement Economics Government 72

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right? But they go to college at a lower rate than suburban students. Kirk: And that situation has been getting worse, Jon.

Education 128

Education High School Government Economics 128

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2773–2777. Our brains give more weight to words on a printed page. 2021, May 9).

Artifacts 52

Artifacts Primary Sources K-12 Psychology 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

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan. Amanda Peters, a 2023 MAHG graduate, teaches AP Government and AP Human Geography at Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas. They encourage students to listen to other citizens’ perspectives.

Civics 52

Civics Civic Engagement American History Government 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The University of Alaska System scaled back more than 40 , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources and hospitality administration. Many of the programs affected are in the humanities and languages, making those disciplines less available to rural students than they are to urban and suburban ones.

Geography 135

Geography Political Science Sociology History 135

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

The students at Saint Leo will start with a course that takes a holistic look at the veteran experience, McLees said, and then move to a class that looks at “legendary warriors” from wars across time and geography outside the United States, and a course specifically focused on Native American veterans serving two sovereigns.

Psychology 129

Psychology Advocacy Sociology Anthropology 129

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Lowell’s amped-up program goes a step beyond typical enrichment offerings, with coursework intended to prepare kids for continuing education and jobs in local and state industries that are actively hiring and projected to grow. “I Moureen’s economic ascent, however, may also depend on geography.

High School 105

High School Geography Middle School Critical Thinking 105

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The Hechinger Report and Reveal asked the state for a list of the primary textbooks used by every public school in all 148 Mississippi districts during the 2016-17 school year. The book was valuable for state geography and basic vocabulary, she said, but using it to teach about the Civil Rights Movement was out of the question.

K-12 97

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 97

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Experts say offering age-appropriate answers to kids’ questions about humans as social and sexual beings lays the groundwork for those important (if still cringe-worthy) conversations about puberty and sex the kids will need when they’re teens. Roffman said 4-year-olds want to know about geography (Where was I before I was born?);

Teaching 91

Teaching Elementary School Lesson Plan Middle School 91

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Virtually all school districts buy web filters from companies that sort the internet into categories. Do we really want that to be the case? Is that fair?”

Library 100

Library Advocacy Humanities High School 100

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 2016, the United States welcomed 84,994 refugees, just six shy of its cap. Only $100 million was received, according to a 2016 report by the Malala Fund. Deng was tempted, as she struggled with subjects like chemistry and geography and the intense pressure to do well on tests. It was all about human beings.”.

High School 111

High School Teaching Geography Humanities 111

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. Education vaulted to the forefront of conversations about the presidential race when Democratic nominee Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate.

K-12 135

K-12 Education Public School History 135