Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people. School districts are not the only entities hiding their racism behind laws that provide cover.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Tibetan community in Vancouver includes approximately 700 people, more than 200 of whom migrated from four settlements in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to Canada through a federal refugee resettlement program between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Tibetan parents in Vancouver decided to organize efforts to care for their heritage language.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

One hard-hit district is Plumas, which encompasses Greenville, a mountain town that burned virtually to the ground in the Dixie Fire, the second-biggest blaze in state history. Nationwide, 6,444 schools are located in counties at high risk of flooding, according to a 2017 Pew Trusts report. We should not wait until disaster strikes.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Artwork decorates the government-run nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. caring for young children has long been considered the responsibility of individual families, not the government. We were established to escape government tyranny. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. Britain says ‘yes’. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

The stigma against job candidates with criminal records is so strong that, even with the skills they may have learned behind bars, many find it easier to start a business than get hired by one, said Marc Howard, a professor of government and law who helped start Georgetown University’s Pivot entrepreneurship program last year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

The focus inspired local parent-teacher groups — at the time, segregated by race — to drive many reforms in public schools, including the additions of kindergarten, playgrounds, school lunches and water fountains, according to Christine Woyshner, a professor at Temple University who has researched the history of volunteer groups in education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. This community in rural Lewis County made headlines in 2017 when all 43 of its graduating seniors were accepted into two- or four-year colleges. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017. Much like how town librarians stepped in to save the school libraries in 2017, they also provided crucial space, books, Wi-Fi, and activities to students during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. It took state and local governments seven years to restore their tax bases, muster the political will to approve spending increases and send the money to schools. Domingue said reading gaps in younger children could “mutate” into future academic problems.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

9, 2017 — just weeks before Stone was to begin his senior year at the small Roman Catholic college in northwest Detroit — he got an urgent call from a friend telling him to check the college’s website. D ozens of colleges and universities have closed since 2016 as institutions confront rising expenses and dwindling government support.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Without advice from a counselor, D’naysha Griggs says she would not have known how to talk about her work history and family obligations in her college applications. Griggs’ work history and family commitments might seem like key selling points for colleges that say they value grit, time management skills and maturity.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

1EdTech inherited Open Badges from Mozilla in 2017. Your history course may not specify that you are gaining skills in research, writing and evaluation logic. In the higher education setting, a lot goes into the governance structure around creating course content. Digital credentialing helps unpack and identify each skill.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. Maybe, just maybe, if [those] students were sitting in English and history class with men and women whom the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. Officials would not say whether the state would again fail to match and thus lose federal funds in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

billion a year from the federal government and other sources that the National Science Foundation calculates is spent by academia on research is not intended to immediately result in commercial applications. Marc Levine, emeritus professor of history, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Most of the $75.3 We want to see results.’ ”.

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

Since 1997, he has been associated with the University of California, Berkeley, where he has chaired the Department of Political Science and served as co-director of the Institute of Government Studies. Of particular note is his interest in exploring political history and American political development through the lens of the Congress.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Even if this decline doesn’t quite match the dire predictions of mass college closures that were popular in 2016, the recent history and near-term outlook for traditional higher ed is more negative than I imagined. At minimum, this is a signal of a higher education market that is in the process of being fundamentally reshaped.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Foster’s intelligence and dedication put people into space during one of the most tumultuous times in our nation’s history. STEM jobs will grow 13 percent from 2017 to 2027 , as opposed to 9 percent for non-STEM work. He created hundreds of desirable jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for black Alabamians.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In Illinois, District 428 awarded 73 high school diplomas in 2017, up from 65 in 2013 when there were twice as many juveniles in the system and their average stay was longer.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 17, 2024

In addition, he is the author of Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2017). Outside of Harvard, Imai served as the President of the Society for Political Methodology from 2017 to 2019. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his office is located.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The data was from the 2018-19 academic year, with the exception of Nevada, which has released only the data from 2017-18. Credit: Courtesy of Corey Dixon/2017. s long history of segregation and racist policies. He knew Montgomery County had a long history of high performance for most students, but not all of them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

She currently works a clerical job for a government agency and drives cabs intermittently, while trying to launch a holistic wellness business. She was inducted into her school’s honor society and selected for a trip to visit civil rights landmarks in Memphis during Black History Month.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. The problems pre-date Nellis, who arrived in 2017. Plus, a parking sticker. But they haven’t been solved on his watch. For everyone.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Jared Maymon, a Nichols College junior and a student government vice president, has become convinced that Nichols will survive. Applications fell again in 2017, but have since recovered, and the college exceeded its enrollment goals this year. He’s “okay to sleep at night, comfortable that I’m going to graduate. DUDLEY, Mass. —

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy has developed extensive external partnerships with leaders of other associations such as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she has served on the Science and Human Rights Coalition Council since 2017. Dr. Kimberly A.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

They had no idea they’d be putting those plans into action the very next day, when they’d be facing the most destructive blaze in California history. And as government funding also fell, tuition doubled. Credit: Photo: Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters. The University of Puerto Rico’s 11 campuses faced $132 million in structural damage.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Loading… Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. It was reprinted with permission.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the meantime, the checkered history of school reform did not seem top of mind for students from Coolidge. In 2017, it advanced its message through a celebrity-studded network TV special , featuring Tom Hanks and James Corden doing karaoke on a school bus. teens won’t arrive for a while.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S.,

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. There is a long history of US imperial politics in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They created the entry on Settler colonialism in Canada , describing the important history of the displacement and mistreatment of Canada’s indigenous populations by European settlers. in history and brings extensive experience in higher education and academia to Wiki Education. Helaine has a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The increase included $753,687 more than was spent in 2017-18 for accompanists, instruments, travel, entry fees and uniforms, among other essentials. It’s part of our history, but as we bring kids in from other countries [we should offer] more popular ensembles in other countries.”.

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