Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

According to the most recent NAEP results , between 2019 and 2022, student performance in data analysis, statistics and probability fell by a full 10 points for eighth grade students, representing what some experts consider a full grade level in lack of progress. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Complex, Ongoing Story The history of European pigmentation is far more intricate than previously thought. If nothing else, it reminds us that the past was not a monochrome progression toward modernity, but a kaleidoscope of changing traits shaped by history, environment, and chance. The evolution of human skin coloration.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, many college alternatives, especially career and technical education programs, have a complicated history. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the cost of college increased by 180 percent after inflation from 1980 to 2019-20. Education leaders have long called for expanded postsecondary pathways.

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HistoryRewriter

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Archetype Foursquare EduProtocol (Chapter 13) helps students at all levels demonstrate that they can transfer their learning from one subject (English) to another (History). We are excited to work with our EduProtocols Plus members to better understand the role of Archetypes in understanding historical events. Was it George P.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Ancient Mud Unlocks 130,000 Years of Australia’s Fire Management History Australia’s relationship with fire extends back thousands of years, with Indigenous land management practices deeply shaping the continent’s ecology.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By revealing how ancient Mesopotamians tied feelings to specific organs, it contributes to the broader conversation about the universality and variability of emotional experiences in human history. N'Shea Thesis : University of Malta , 2019. Bennett, A. Sahala Conference : Ancient Language Processing Proceedings , 2023.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

Despite some improvements notably in fourth-grade math the national results were pockmarked by widening gaps in student performance and declines in reading scores, including the largest share of eighth graders who did not meet basic reading proficiency in the assessments history.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

History provides ample evidence of this dynamic. Without deliberate intervention, he warns, the same forces that shaped ancient power struggles will continue to dictate the course of history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Empires rise and fall based on territorial expansion and resource acquisition. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13391

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced. “This shared Neanderthal ancestry marks a pivotal chapter in the history of modern humans outside Africa,” remarked Johannes Krause, the study’s senior author.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up. KELLEN ZENG.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

For this reason, indigenous cultures worldwide, throughout history and prehistory, have viewed children as 'active agents'—mediators between this world and the entities inhabiting the natural world, the underworld, and the cosmos as a whole."​ ​ Children's footprints from Basura Cave, 14,000 years ago. Credit: Prof.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

History “may cause them to not see the investment in a public school education as a good use of their time,” said Dallas Pettigrew, director of Oklahoma University’s Center for Tribal Social Work and a member of the Cherokee Nation. Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

This years NAEP scores revealed that in both reading and math, most fourth- and eighth-graders still performed below pre-pandemic 2019 levels. For most of history, survival depended on relationships on families, communities and shared responsibility. for adults and children.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

During a recent presentation to the Lockhart City Council, ACC Chancellor Russell Lowery-Hart told city leaders he appreciated that the site would represent the community’s history juxtaposed to “what we think the future looks like.” In 2019, they rejected a $92.4 Roughly 4 out of every 5 students enrolled in Lockhart ISD are Latinos.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Unemployment dropped below 5 percent and the stock market soared, posting one of the best decades in history. History is seeing a similar collapse, down 35 percent.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

However, this new genomic study, led by Francesco Ravasini and colleagues, reconstructs the biological history of the Picenes using DNA extracted from 102 ancient individuals spanning over 1,000 years of history. While the Picenes eventually faded from history, absorbed into the expanding Roman state, their genetic legacy persisted.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

Throughout its history, the program has maintained high quality standards and during the year studied, a majority of teachers had master’s degrees. By 2019, 60 percent of the state’s 4-year-olds were served by the program, which met 8 out of 10 quality benchmarks set by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER).

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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. I’m afraid to now,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. history standards as well. Then, in 2019, the bottom fell out. Department of Education called Algebra I the gateway course to all higher math study.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today, they are even more common at two-year schools: In 2019, community colleges granted 852,504 associate degrees and 579,822 certificates. A 2019 Gallup poll reported that a decreasing proportion of Americans consider a college degree to be very important — from 70 percent in 2013 to 51 percent in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Copur-Gencturk and colleagues (2019) explored the impact of teachers’ biases on their perceptions of students’ math abilities. 2019; Kleekamp & Zapata, 2018). When educators understand more about their implicit and explicit biases , it helps us to identify and address how these biases impact practice. 2016; Harmon et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham. Schunn, published October 2019 in the journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology. Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But the research process is slow and methodical, and finally in 2019, there is more conclusive evidence that the whirring lobes of plastic are harmful to learning. A German study published in January 2019 found that both fidget spinners and doodling impaired memory. Photo: Meryl Schenker for The Hechinger Report. So 2017, right?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Here are some of the racial realities of American public education today: 25: That’s the percentage increase in Black-white school segregation between 1991 and 2019, according to an analysis of 533 districts by sociologists Sean Reardon at Stanford University and Ann Owens at the University of Southern California. But the A.P.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

At this time in our history, the global pandemic presents a unique opportunity to establish and refine an online learning model that is fair and equitable for all students.”. We’ve taught more than 150,000 students fully online in the last 10 years — including 35,000 students in 2019.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 11, 2022

At Digital Promise, the Adult Learning, Marketplace, and Learning and Employment Innovations teams have been collaborating on research about LERs—digital records of an individual’s skills, credentials, diplomas, and employment history.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

The History of the Nationally Recommended Student-to-Counselor Ratio,” when I was writing another story on the growth in school counselors. Nicola’s research began in the fall of 2019 to fulfill a history class assignment and her paper is now under review for potential publication at an academic journal.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Additionally, while teachers reported having less say into the educational technology they use now than in our fall 2019 survey, those who have this input are much more likely than those without it to see their online classes as effective. The knowledge of these tenets will then be infused into other core content areas as appropriate.

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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.”. Washington State has been the leader in that area, Spikes said, having passed legislation in 2019 that set aside funds for media literacy education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school. He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history. I received lots of compliments from teachers and students.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching. Summer is just around the corner -enjoy! Apostolidou, A. Palgrave Macmillan.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. No ratings were issued in 2019-20 because of the pandemic.).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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