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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 16, 2018

Are you decorating your room in a manner that is representative of all cultures ? Educators also should work towards learning about the backgrounds of their students so they understand students’ cultural and social norms. We also have to avoid the pitfall of teaching about the same historical people from various cultures as well (e.g.,

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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

APRIL 23, 2020

Undergraduates already seemed lukewarm toward virtual higher education; only about 20 percent took even one online course in the fall of 2018, the consulting firm Eduventures estimates. If they didn’t like that, they definitely don’t like what they’re getting this semester.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. Her aim then was a law degree.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Students were prompted to find images that represent contemporary pop culture, and then to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to create their own Warhol-inspired work. Two of our VILS locations are on Maui, Hawaii, which has an extraordinarily rich culture and strong community traditions. Safari Books. Read more about Safari Books’ work.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.”

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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. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

February 21, 2018 — Students walk out of class in Washington, D.C., Yet I find myself constantly talking with students I don’t know in the hall, in the library, or outside the cafeteria: “Hey, nice Patriots sweatshirt!”. “Hi, It is a step in the right direction toward a culture that does not value violence but our common humanity.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Scores continued to increase steadily, and as of 2018-2019, 66 percent of students were reading at or above proficiency, including 58 percent in the low-income Hispanic subgroup. What kinds of cultural experiences do they have, and how can we build those into the kinds of things we’re teaching them and the kinds of books we’re reading?”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Both the Clarksdale and Coahoma systems were rated F on the state’s 2018 school report cards and are eligible for state takeover. Dupree, who retired from Clarksdale schools at the end of the 2018-19 school year, declined several requests for an interview. She liked the people and the culture and the history.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

It was written in 2018 by Philadelphia high school English teacher Matthew Kay, and he based it on his experiences having these conversations with his own students. The kind of behaviors that we get in this ‘gotcha’ culture of social media are directly the opposite of what is productive in conversation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Nationwide, high schools offering credit recovery used online courses 71 percent of the time, according to a 2018 U.S. At-risk students receive support from teams of individuals who care, the schools have a strong culture of teacher-driven professional development and the result is a high level of student and staff engagement, they say.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Cayanne Korder, 18, studies in the Red Wing High library before heading to a local hospital for an internship. Rural students make up only about one-third of CollegePoint’s enrollees, but the program’s sheer volume — 19,000 students were enrolled in 2018 — means it reaches more of these students than any other individual effort.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

In October 2018, my mother, my first teacher, passed away. We had a school leader who understood the power of story and the necessity to take a multidimensional approach to select the text that allowed for considerations of critical literacy and cultural responsiveness. Two months later, Mildred D. Absolutely not.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

which Powell describes as an isolated world of “sacred peaks, spirits and clans” where homelessness, alcoholism and unemployment are as rampant as books and libraries are scarce. There’s not much in the way of a college going culture at Chinle High, beyond the unsung efforts of a handful of exemplary coaches and teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

School district leaders there, many of whom started their careers in small-town classrooms, now grapple with big-city problems: large class sizes, stretched budgets, crowded school buildings and too few staff, especially those with the cultural and language skills to serve this region’s diversifying student base.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

In addition to implementing the phonics instruction in the 2018-19 school year, the school also switched to a homegrown reader’s workshop model and then added the writing component this year.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. He is currently working on a study of Civil War visual culture for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bogart is professor emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Keene also edited our collection of core documents on World War II (2018, 2 nd ed. 1926) Library of Congress. The document gives you some insight into the youth culture of the 1920s, the generation that would grow up to experience World War II as adults. How about a document on the 1920s? Held, John, Jr.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

In 2018, she joined me on the podcast to clear up some of the confusions and misapplications of leveled texts. There also needs to be an increased attention paid to how language, like multi-lingual learners or culture, comes into play when discussing developing literacies.” Come back for more.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you write about Blackness while trying to resist the insidious pull of cultural and racial assimilation? As Black Nordics, we live in countries that top “Happiest Nation in the World” lists yearly, lists that often make cursory mention of racial-cultural homogeneity as a key contributor to national happiness. Hall, Stuart.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

In each case, teachers are being deputized as culture war cops, called upon to police their own behavior, and that of their students. Neither poll asked specifically about culture war issues. In Alabama, the governor signed a law last month requiring schools to notify parents if their child is questioning their gender identity.

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Sapiens

APRIL 23, 2025

Traveling Treasures is a new project led by a team of anthropologists that puts Liberians directly in touch with their dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies designed to bridge continents and histories. WHEN STUDENTS DONNED virtual reality headsets for the first time last year at William V.S.

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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. At Lusher, in 2020, 13 percent of teachers were Black compared with 22 percent of the students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Students walk to Shipman Library at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. Hundreds of colleges have joined course-sharing networks since late 2018, when the Council of Independent Colleges, or CIC, launched its Online Course Sharing Consortium. And if they don’t, what do I do with that faculty member?”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

DeSantis, has grown increasingly skeptical that the class will spread to other Kentucky schools, even as her politically liberal district doubles down on a commitment to African American history it made as part of a curriculum revamp in 2018. Santana goes deep.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Center for Hope and Redemption can be seen from the main entrance of Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. Ultimately, less than 4 percent of them graduate from college, compared with the nation’s overall rate of 29 percent, according to a 2018 report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In 2018 the university began tracking how often each student connects with campus wifi and logs into the school’s computer system. The ID records included when students entered classroom buildings, returned to the dorm at night, checked out library books or bought a coffee. Other vendors do, too.

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Steven V. Miller

APRIL 17, 2025

Observe, from this video six years ago with respect to the 2018-19 NFL season. Olgas brilliant and publicly accessible and your university library already paid for access to this special issue (along with the rest of the journal/publishers catalog).

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. The project invited students to consider how scientific knowledge develops and is situated in the historical and cultural dimensions of the times.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Wilson, “Visual Culture: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?,” in The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader , eds. Principal faculty Brown , Burns , and Downs explain the institute’s curriculum and introduce their respective scholarly approaches to the study of the war and visual culture. Schwartz and Jeannene M.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

Her 2006 Roman comedy class, for instance, filled the Classics library with uproarious laughter, enough to convince comedy-skeptical colleagues to reconsider the genre’s merit. Professor James’ graduate and undergraduate courses on Roman comedy and Roman elegy were the stuff of legend in the department.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Many we selected because they had made headlines for banning library books; others we chose because government records showed they had purchased web filters or because they were mentioned by students interviewed for this article. Yet as the culture wars play out in U.S. The Markup requested records from 26 school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

LeBron James speaks at the opening ceremony for the I Promise School in Akron, Ohio, Monday, July 30, 2018. The university libraries, sporting and cultural events as well as academic programs offer resources a local school can use. AP Photo/Phil Long.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. Experts point to a confluence of factors for this, including poverty, culture, trauma and a lack of comprehensive sexual health education. “My

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 2017, it took in fewer than 54,000 and, in 2018, officials reduced the official cap to 45,000 and as of November had taken in about half that number. In the camp and elsewhere, agencies work to change cultural beliefs that girls don’t need to be educated or should be married off as teens to the highest bidder.

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