The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. They argue that the practice of policing Indigenous students’ graduation attire is symptomatic of an education system woefully ignorant of, and insensitive to, Native culture.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

His particular focus and subsequent publication about the Gimi concerned their medical beliefs and practices, but not until 2018 did Nansi and Len publish their beautifully illustrated Among the Gimi: Fieldwork as Personal Experience. Leonard Glick published two books based on his research on Jewish history and Judaism.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The response from readers was unlike any he had experienced, prompting him to expand his ideas into a book, B t Jobs: A Theory , first published in 2018. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Excavations starting in 2018 unearthed artifacts and charcoal samples, enabling precise radiocarbon dating. Dating back to the Late Preceramic Period, this plaza predates iconic structures like the Great Pyramids of Egypt and Stonehenge, marking it as a significant milestone in architectural history. 1 Toohey, J.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. History and Civics scores for eighth-grade students sounded an alarm: scores have dropped by an average of five points since 2018 and nine points since 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

We initiate prospective faculty members into a culture of snobbism and hierarchy. Integrate into graduate preparation knowledge about the history, philosophy and culture of U.S. ’s ‘culture of snobbism and hierarchy’ appeared first on The Hechinger Report. higher education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Cultivating a Culture One day during my English class, Khalil, one of my sixth grade students, created a live soundtrack to accompany my lesson on mentor sentences. The combination of our classroom culture and reading growth achievement earned our class the 2018 Southwest Ohio Teach For America Classroom of the Year Award.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In December, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture described the predicament as “extremely disconcerting.” Unlike their Finnish counterparts, Japanese teens improved upon their 2018 PISA scores in every subject despite the Covid-19 disruption. teacher and parent living in Finland, I understand the concern.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

While overregulation occurs across linguistic contexts, the specificity of the #NoSaboKid is co-constitutive with histories of immigration from Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to Anglophone countries like the United States. In reflecting on this, L.A. In taking a lead from Salva and L.A.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. She liked the people and the culture and the history. You know how Ms.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. She said she was told that was “just physics culture,” and no action was taken to discipline the student. “It Credit: Lourdes Torrey. I changed majors.”. “I

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Political Science Now

APRIL 8, 2024

Regions that were historically peripheral, often marked by distinctive dialects and cultural traits, developed a collective self-perception of marginality and lower status. It highlights the importance of historical cultural divides, especially those rooted in linguistic differences, in shaping current political behaviors and preferences.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Over the few weeks of the World Cup in 2018, the games were inescapable, as they will be again this November and December. Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Collaborative learning thrives in the metaverse , fostering teamwork and cross-cultural communication as students from different locations collaborate on projects. In 2018, I attended a workshop where I talked with a game-app developer. This is history in the making, and it is exciting to be a part of it! Did we have failures?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Missouri Western State University eliminated majors, minors and concentrations in English, history, philosophy, sociology, political science, art and other subjects. Spending on higher education fell in 16 of the 20 most rural states between 2008 and 2018, when adjusted for inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2019

Then I took a class with Gene Woods, following the Facing History and Ourselves curriculum. For instance, we learned in the Facing History curriculum about the Holocaust in which six million Jewish people were among those murdered. The history we were learning about was my history, too. I didn’t talk to anyone.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. As caregivers of the future, it is crucial that we are aware of what and who our country does not want our students to know and help them discover the truth of their history for themselves. Two months later, Mildred D.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. Will history repeat? Related: How the last recession affected higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In March of 2018, Tenaya Middle School officials in Fresno, California pulled a 14-year-old male student out of class for a haircut with shaved-in designs. Booker’s interest was piqued after 16-year-old New Jersey wrestler, Andrew Johnson, was ordered by a referee in 2018 to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match.

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Pedagogy and Formation

AUGUST 30, 2022

Far too many faith-based educational institutions end up measuring their success based on the maintenance of academic, cultural and sporting standards and whether parents are satisfied ‘customers’. Teachers need to have or develop this key ability (Cairney, 2018, 138-155). What can we do about the issue that I highlight?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In the decades following, the school became one of the city’s most prestigious educational and cultural institutions. “To Now she wants others to learn that history. In 2018, nearly half the student body had to attend summer school to make up credits. “I There was an expectation that we would succeed – always,” Ivory said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

At this moment in history, we must acknowledge that the United States has not risen to the great challenges brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. We must make certain that all students see themselves as scientists, and that all students in all grades receive a robust, culturally relevant science education. PALO ALTO, Calif. —

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Luke Said, 18, spent the summer of 2018 picking raspberries. million for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years, according to numbers requested from the district finance office. In 2018, five of seven made it. The district also offers courses like Digital Audio Production, History of American Pop and AP Music Theory.

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

There is a long history of research looking into the importance of spoken language as foundational for learning to read and write. 2018; Marks et al., 2018; Rueckla et al., 2018; Marks et al., 2018; Rueckla et al., But, this isn't just about reading literacy, it's also about social cognition and connection.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This clash of cultures is being waged against a backdrop of unprecedented financial and enrollment challenges and pressure to improve low productivity and poor success rates — and at a time when more nonacademics are being appointed college and university presidents. Tuminez became president of UVU in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. The move toward cultural proficiency, also known as culturally relevant education or culturally responsive teaching, has been gaining momentum in urban school districts throughout the country. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

An unstable workforce also affects the school culture, said Pipes: “Once we have people here that are years and years and years in, we know how things are run.” It’s the night of the final class of her course, “Children with Special Needs: History and Practice.” Her 24 classmates smile and wave as they log on from different states.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

But for now, it’s focused on training existing educators to become more “culturally responsive,” representing diverse cultures and frames of reference in their teaching. But it also shows how hard it can be to change the culture of a school — and the mindsets of its teachers.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Here are a few models for how to bring together the educators in your community to grow your local culture of maker learning: Maker Educator Meetups. This year’s Edcamp: Maker Promise was hosted as a pre-conference session to the 2018 California STEAM Symposium. The format of MEMs can vary and depend on the needs of your group.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Closed in 2012, the building sat vacant until Community Forge purchased Johnston from the school district for $225,000 and reopened it in 2018. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

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Strange Maps

JULY 11, 2023

Named after a beloved DJ Inaugurated in 1989 and known until 2021 as the Ericsson Globe, it was renamed after Avicii, a beloved Swedish DJ, who died in 2018. In 2018, Metallica drew a record crowd of 17,303 fans to the Globe. Earth is at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, 4.7 Credit : Sweden Solar System). in, 18 cm).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. Normally, when you are looking at history, the voices that are centered are those of landowning white men.”.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 23, 2024

Jennifer Ostojski is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate University, where she teaches courses in International Relations, Popular Culture, and European Politics. Wilesemith joined the Department as a Teaching Fellow in January 2018, and prior to this taught in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But they’re learning through songs, poems and dance” related to Black history and Black life. Every content experience is embedded in a cultural or community framework.” The nonprofit Khan Academy launched its own early learning app, called Khan Academy Kids, back in 2018.

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