The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. Whether this bounty will make us smarter and better informed or more ignorant and narrow-minded will depend on our awareness of this problem and our educational response to it.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 10, 2022
A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time.
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The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 27, 2020
history, education leaders have started to reckon with how to comprehensively teach history with an antiracism lens. Colleges are holding professional development online events for educators on how to reimagine education with racial justice in mind.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 20, 2016
The news literacy initiative is based in the Stanford History Education Group that Wineburg founded in 2002 to train teachers how to use primary sources and help students critically evaluate historical claims.
Diane Ravitch
JUNE 20, 2021
“This study is not an indictment of the students—they did what they’ve been taught to do—but the study should be troubling to anyone who cares about the future of democracy,” said Joel Breakstone, director of the Stanford History Education Group and the study’s lead author. “We
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 25, 2021
Research has found that people with less education are more likely to be racist and hostile to people of color, and that more educated people have more political knowledge and are more politically active. And while it’s clear that schools matter, the size of that influence is debatable. But it is hardly an inoculation.
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