Becoming a History Teacher

JULY 19, 2024

Except… This year I interviewed an applicant for the PGCE course who had applied to teach history knowing there was a bursary for English of £10k and assuming this was the case for history too. In my role as Co-Chair of HTEN (the History Teacher Educators Network) I have heard this story time and time again.

Geography 85

Geography History Teaching Tradition 85

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.

Anthropology 130

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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.

K-12 121

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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.

High School 65

High School Education K-12 Economics 65

Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Long regarded as a relatively homogenous group, Neanderthals may have had a much more complex evolutionary history, characterized by local extinctions and migrations. ” The Thorin Neanderthal (Top) View of the mandible in situ when found in September 2019. 1 Sikora, M., Feuerborn, T.

History 80

History Humanities Research Cultures 80

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.

K-12 108

K-12 High School American History Public School 108

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.

Humanities 141

Humanities Economics History Psychology 141

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.

Learning Science 144

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Along with a rise in Holocaust denialism — fueled by misinformation, along with poor knowledge of the history — researchers have noted that disagreements over curriculum, book bans and politically contentious issues have ratcheted up the pressure on educators. A former history teacher from Florida, Long left the classroom in 2019.

Civics 119

Civics History Public School Teaching 119

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.

Charter School 108

Charter School History Library Public School 108

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.

Elementary School 145

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

All three reports look at student achievement in the spring of 2019, before the pandemic, and compare it to the spring of 2023. A typical sixth grader, for example, in the spring of 2023 was generally scoring much lower than a typical sixth grader in 2019. The differences are in the details. The high school data is very alarming.

Middle School 88

Middle School High School Elementary School History 88

ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine, authors of the 2019 book “ In Search of Deeper Learning ”, define deeper learning as “the understanding of not just the surface features of a subject or discipline, but the underlying structures or ideas.” The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library. No internet.

Education 119

Education Library History American History 119

Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This is important because their impacts are likely to be a partly a function of the deprivation history of an area (e.g., deindustrialisation, population decline) and, more generally, the trajectory of deprivation, and not just its current state, is significant.

Geography 52

Geography Government History 52

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).

Psychology 142

Psychology Middle School History Public School 142

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2023

Since 2019 there’s been a growing number of attacks — both verbal and physical — against teachers, administrators, school board officials, librarians and even students, particularly those who are LGBTQ+, Black, Hispanic or Asian. Roy Cooper created a task force in 2019 to add more teachers of color across the state.

Cultures 133

Cultures High School Leadership Teaching 133

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.

Archaeology 66

Archaeology Humanities Cultures Tradition 66

History Havoc

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

” National Bureau of Economic Research, (September 2019). The post New Video – Francis Butler Leigh and her time on a Georgia Plantation appeared first on History Havoc. Bibliography Ager, Philipp, Leah Platt Boustan, and Katherine Eriksson. Danbom, David B. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

History 52

History Economics Research 52

Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region. By way of this maneuver, (settler) environmentalists attempt to claim innocence vis-à-vis an ongoing history of land expropriation, enslavement, and profit-driven growth from which they continue to benefit.

Anthropology 96

Anthropology Humanities History Economics 96

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.

Education 138

Education Museum Economics Tradition 138

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.

Library 143

Library Elementary School Research History 143

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.,

Cultures 133

Cultures Education Professional Development Library 133

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.

Teaching 132

Teaching Civics K-12 Social Science 132

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic. math scores recorded in the history of the PISA math test, which began in 2003. The tests were administered in 2022.)

Economics 136

Economics Elementary School History High School 136

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.

American History 110

American History Cultures High School History 110

Anthropology.net

JUNE 7, 2024

A horse herder chases a white horse in Inner Mongolia, China in 2019. Image credit: © Ludovic Orlando) A Revolution in Human Mobility The domestication of horses significantly impacted human history, enabling long-distance travel, the transportation of heavy loads, and the ability to fight while mounted. 1 Librado, P., Chauvey, L.,

Archaeology 64

Archaeology Humanities History Cultures 64

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.

World Religions 112

World Religions World History Civics History 112

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.

Charter School 127

Charter School K-12 Public School History 127

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In Marin County, a wealthy area north of San Francisco, a 2019 survey found that 75 percent of child care workers worried about having enough money to meet their monthly expenses and 39 percent said they were worried about having enough food on the table. “Personally, I am beginning to explore different income opportunities,” Tang said.

Education 122

Education Economics History 122

Living Geography

JULY 24, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History Blog which has over 300 posts on it already. It is not in an athlete’s DNA to stop and if the conditions are too dangerous I do think there is a risk of fatalities Sam Mattis USA Olympian and 2019 Outdoor USA Champion in discus: “Unfortunately, in the US, athletes dying from heat stroke is not new.

History 52

History Geography Research 52

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.

History 109

History Research Education 109

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

It was one of the most significant days in the history of the U.S. Although the red line from 1990 to the present looks nearly flat, when you zoom in on it, you can see that Black-white segregation grew by 25 percent between 1991 and 2019. Supreme Court. On May 17, 1954, the nine justices unanimously ruled in Brown v.

Charter School 121

Charter School Private School Public School Tradition 121

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2024

A paper proposal for a fall conference was due two days after the announcement was made and she spent the week scrambling to find another college where her credits as an art history major would transfer, not to mention ensuring that the finances would work. But whenever anyone raised the issue of Wells closing, they would deny it.

Leadership 140

Leadership Teaching History Humanities 140

Becoming a History Teacher

APRIL 16, 2023

If you are a history teacher or mentor you may find the following interesting for thinking about ongoing history specific professional development: [link] This is a great place to start if you are a beginning or early career history teacher or a mentor and would like to supplement the history specific elements of your professional development.

History 52

History Pedagogy Professional Development Tradition 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

It was startling, Nia thought, how studying history could leave her feeling the same heaviness she’d felt scrolling social media after police had killed Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald, young Black people of her own generation. It was the summer of 2019, and Nia was 15. Tatiana Bennett was studying the history of hip-hop.

Archiving 138

Archiving Museum History Primary Sources 138

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).

Critical Thinking 142

Critical Thinking Teaching Psychology Middle School 142

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Discussions of tribal culture were limited to a few isolated craft projects during a history unit and inaccurate portrayals of Indians at the “First Thanksgiving,” he recalled.

Charter School 120

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 120