Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2019

What began in Pittsburgh in 2016 has now expanded to new regions across the country, through a partnership with Remake Learning, PBS Kids, and Digital Promise. Events are hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, community centers, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science. “I Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’m in a conference room in a Civil War museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, attending a keynote panel about preventing violence in the lead-up to the U.S. In 2016, they had a hallway conversation about how toxic polarization in the U.S. the moderator asks. election in November. Bubman is the founder and executive director of UR Action.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

At the college level, Hispanic and Black students have lower completion rates of STEM majors; according to the National Science Foundation, in 2016 Hispanics earned 13.5% Unsurprisingly, such foundational STEM disparities extend far beyond secondary school education. Related: We must boost elementary science education.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In a now-famous study published in 2016 , about half of the medical students and residents involved reported a range of biologically false beliefs about racial differences in patients, such as “Blacks’ skin is thicker than Whites.”

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The presentation of the findings of archaeology to the public cannot avoid difficult political issues, and the museum curator and the popularizer today have responsibilities which some can be seen to have failed. Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn (2016) Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice. New York: Thames and Hudson 2.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Kennis brothers, courtesy of The Natural History Museum, London New Insights from Ancient Genomes A groundbreaking study analyzed 58 ancient Eurasian genomes alongside the DNA of 275 contemporary humans. Journal : Cell , 2016. Journal : The American Journal of Human Genetics , 2016. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1814338116 Rougier, H.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. An aging portable classroom will become a mini science museum, filled with hands-on activities for kids. Kinsman graduated in 2016 and is pursuing her associate degree online. Kinsman graduated in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

We limit students’ educations when we curb their access to museums, libraries, community events and other places where learning happens. What good is a city flush with national monuments and museums if students across town can’t access it without hopping on a bus and switching to a train to reach it? Students don’t live in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

In New York, the Statue of Liberty was renovated in 1986, and the Ellis Island Museum opened in 1990. On the Mall, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened in 1993, the Korean Veterans’ Memorial in 1995, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in 1997, the World War II Memorial and the National Museum of the American Indian in 2004.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

Brooklyn Ascend Charter School was designed to look like an art museum, with high-quality replications of famous paintings from around the world. Photo: Kevin Hagen. Cheri Sterman is the Director of Education for Crayola and on the Executive Board of the Partnership for 21 st Century Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

million in 2016, more than the university’s annual operating budget. million by the USDA to expand and renovate its student center at what a spokesman said was 2 percent interest, but he said it had declined another $61 million to build a fossil park and museum. The USDA loaned Iowa Wesleyan $26.4

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

As part of the redevelopment plan, the Blumberg homes were razed in 2016, and families were temporarily relocated to public housing elsewhere in the city. The students have visited places such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Temple University and a coffee factory. Her memories of the Anne Frank exhibit stayed with her.

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Strange Maps

JULY 11, 2023

The venue is used mainly for ice hockey games, concerts, and other mass events, including the Eurovision Song Contest (twice, once in 2000 and again in 2016). Earth, in Stockholm, on Earth — more precisely in Cosmonova, the cinema theatre of Sweden’s National Museum of Natural History. Credit : Sweden Solar System).

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese American computer programmer who founded Yahoo!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2016

Steve Collins, Jackson Public Schools Parent of the Year for 2016, helps McLeod Elementary School students in the carpool line. On the trip to Memphis, Collins also took the boys to visit the National Civil Rights Museum, where they were amazed at multiracial activism in the Civil Rights Movement. Photo by Imani Khayyam. JACKSON, Miss.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Source: Natural History Museum, London Rajiv McCoy, a computational geneticist at Johns Hopkins University, remarks, "It’s probably the most comprehensive picture we have to date of Neanderthal gene flow into modern human populations." Neanderthal and Homo sapiens reconstruction. Lalueza-Fox, C., de la Rasilla, M., Brajkovic, D.,

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Visiting Lecturers and Session Leaders Louise Bernard is the director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (2016). Green is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama. And the co-series editor with J.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

Of the more than 200,000 children ages 5 and younger in Silicon Valley, some 50,000 live in low-income families, according to a 2016 analysis by the Urban Institute. Libraries are popular locations, but so are community centers, schools, churches, public housing, local YMCA centers, and museums.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

In 2016, she received a grant from the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division to present “Loma Alta: Tales of Desegregation,” a talk at a public library that featured her and two other district alumni sharing their experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

In the 2016-17 school year, for example, just 21 percent of third-graders in foster care in New York City earned a proficient score in English and 20 percent did so in math. Closer to home, she saw the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Apollo Theater and toured Columbia University and the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

If you are interested in this further, look up bureaucratic plagiarism (Martin, 2016), and thanks to Sarah Eaton for highlighting this in her STLHE keynote (see that’s how you do ethical citational acknowledgment). George’s Museum. And more importantly we can’t put on the cloak of activism if we keep erasing lived-experience.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

I applied and won, and that fall, the organization flew me to see the museum and meet the publisher of USA Today. As Pierre-Floyd wrapped up her fellowship in 2016, she decided she would return to Douglass with a new initiative. I began on that trip to envision a life for myself outside of the South.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2018

A field trip to this much-needed museum should be required for every middle and high school student in U.S. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened late April in Montgomery, Alabama, to honor the thousands of people (mostly black) who were lynched by white American terrorists between 1877 and 1950.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But as Columbia has expanded its footprint, it has also become more of a drain on the city budget because of a state law more than 200 years old that allows universities, museums and other nonprofits to pay almost no property taxes. He died in 2016. A higher court allowed the project to go forward. After then-Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

In the apartheid museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, patrons are randomly sorted into the white or non-white entrance lines. While American textbooks deliver a slavery-lite version of history, other countries have chosen to confront the ugliness of their past, not a sanitized version of it.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

New York City Deputy Mayor Richard Buery greets Chirlane McCray, the city’s first lady, at the awards ceremony and celebration in honor of Black History Month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on February 23, 2017. Photo: Andy Katz/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

But her attempt to point out some kind of moral absurdity during her remarks to Colorado Christian College students at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., “It’s ironic when abortion rights supporters don’t back school choice,” said U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. last week only pointed out her own.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

billion as of 2016 through a complicated financial instrument called an interest-rate swap. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum that focuses on economic policy. That school, its students say, lost nearly $86 million in interest-rate swaps through 2016. The institute is a liberal think tank associated with the Franklin D.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

We can’t go to the museum; we can’t go to the Discovery Center. They approved the measure in 2014 with a 66 percent majority and renewed it in 2016 with a 67 percent majority. million in 2016 dollars); in 2015, it received $23.5 We don’t have licensed day care. Voters in this hardscrabble town responded. million ($42.9

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Kendi, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for nonfiction. Removing racist history books will be harder than shuttling Confederate monuments to the backs of museums. In fact, we can use it to introduce more recent history and fresh faces. Kendi’s book provides a thorough reading of U.S. history from the perspective of black people.

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History Multicultural Education American History Heritage 91

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Kendi, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for nonfiction. Removing racist history books will be harder than shuttling Confederate monuments to the backs of museums. The danger in relegating black history to a month is that it becomes horribly contained to a month. Kendi’s book provides a thorough reading of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

A 2016 study confirmed that America’s youth receive mixed messages on climate change. Participants are reimbursed for supplies year-round and can register their classes for free museum field trips — so long as the exhibits highlight petroleum. Where the board draws the line between industry promotion and youth education is unclear.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Young people who went to college were “20 percentage points more likely to vote than those who had not attended college” in the 2016 election. Trump showed up for the opening day of the new civil rights museum; one supporter looks at a list of those who were lynched. Along with demonstrators, supporters of former President Donald J.

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