The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

Roy Wilson, president of Wayne State University, Sandy Baruah, president and CEO of the Chamber and Brandy Johnson, advisor, Office of the Governor – Michigan announce a new initiative to remove college debts at gathering hosted by the Lumina Foundation in Detroit Michigan on April 30, 2019. Andre Perry/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You cannot attend public schools, visit the public library, eat in restaurants, enjoy public parks, go to churches or attend movie theaters. We must insist that the American History we teach in our schools includes discussions of the systemic racism that has defined and divided our country. Imagine a country where you are a slave.

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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.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. The Almost-Librarian On the first floor of the Clemons Library at the University of Virginia, there are stacks of bookshelves that expand and contract.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

By month’s end, there were 665 (including Reilly), which was more than double the college’s June 2019 applications. “We Missouri’s Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant, created in 2019 to target those 25 and older, has a “clawback” provision so students who don’t fulfill requirements must repay it as a loan with interest.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 2019, he got a job with a general contractor building food carts. More than half of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 180 of the 623 districts honored with the “Best Communities for Music Education” award in 2019. In 2019, six of seven had that honor. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. We can say, ‘Is it the paddling, is it the spanking?’

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

In Carlsbad, voters approved $80 million for new schools in 2019 and school officials may return to the ballot box next year for additional funds as southeast New Mexico’s booming economy continues to draw new people. Despite the growth in Bozeman, natives and newcomers alike almost universally refer to it as a small town.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

They shared their findings in their 2019 book, In Search of Deeper Learning. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. Come back for more.

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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. A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Having lived through the desegregation order, Hirahara, who is now an award-winning mystery writer , wishes more people knew about the history of the city’s schools. Enrollment at PUSD’s John Muir High School has increased since it became an Early College Magnet in 2019, Mumolo said.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. Below, we reprint an edited version of our 2019 interview with Professor Masugi. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-113102. Download your free copy here.

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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. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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Strange Maps

APRIL 8, 2024

Know thy shelf Bookish types will have guessed what’s going on here even without looking at the title of the map: They are Dewey numbers, indicating where on the shelves of your local library you can find the topics they denote. Thus, the History number for Illinois 977.3 Credit : Megan Byrd/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 becomes 917.73

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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Related: What do classroom conversations around race, identity and history really look like? In Texas, where the governor’s order is being challenged in court, Adrian Reyna, an eighth grade history teacher in San Antonio, said he won’t be “intimidated” into reporting his transgender students to state authorities.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. The only score that surpassed 2019 results was Louisianas performance in fourth-grade reading. BROWNSVILLE, Texas Its nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Shes also one of the people having the most fun. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Perez, known as Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Backers of the takeover of Houston Independent School District say it’s needed to improve performance in a few schools in low-income neighborhoods that have a history of poor academic outcomes. Libraries in those schools are being turned into centers where students considered disruptive will participate remotely.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Families spent the school day in fast-food parking lots, outside libraries or on top of mesas trying to catch a signal. The most recent funding, $7 billion available to schools and libraries, was made through the FCC’s Emergency Connectivity Fund and targets the “homework gap” that will persist long after kids return to in-person schooling.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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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. Under the old felony murder rule, which California reformed in 2019, Conner was charged as if he’d pulled the trigger. His first arrest was at age 12. A couple years later, he was present at a shooting.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library. George Washington Carver High School, located in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward community, is known for its long history of educating African American students.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Civil War: A Very Short Introduction (New York, 2020); Henry Louis Gates, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (New York, 2019); James W. History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Cook, “Seeing the Visual in U.S. Stephanie M. Reading: Maurie D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

For two years, the club, known as PRISM (People Respecting Individuality and Sexuality Meeting), gathered in the town’s public library, because its dozen members couldn’t find a faculty adviser to sponsor it. The Legislative Record from Monday, April 17, 2023, on display at the Owen County Public Library.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

His most recent books are Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads: Technological Change and the Future of Politics (Princeton University Press, 2019) and Political Order and Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Her research focuses on early modern political theory and the history of International Relations Thought.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Nationwide, between 2012 and 2022 the number of undergraduate degrees awarded in the humanities English, history, languages, literature, philosophy and related subjects fell 24 percent , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. But its become an existential one. It will help her in a future job, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2022

Educators are left to answer tough questions about history, race and sexuality, hyperaware their responses are under increased scrutiny. Meanwhile, vague laws passed in response to the ongoing culture wars threaten to chill candid conversations about history. Navigating these conversations takes courage, teachers and students say.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2021

A month or two later, Carman invited all the women to a meeting at a public library in Tukwila, Washington, a Seattle suburb. I first met Carman in October 2019 at Trades Women Build Nations , an annual conference for women in the trades. The case was settled before trial in 2019. Our unions, they are broken.

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ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2025

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing that the Defense Departments actions infringe upon the students First Amendment rights to obtain information, particularly about their own identities and history. Books were pulled from libraries. Black History Month was canceled. Health courses were canceled.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. He followed up with an article in the spring 2019 issue of the journal Profession in which he floated the idea of a journal.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

For years, the Three Rivers Local School District , which includes Taylor High School,has relied on UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to help broaden minds in a school environment that library media specialist Marney Murphy describes as “sheltered.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a senator, Harris supported the Equality Act in 2019, which would have expanded protections in the Civil Rights Act on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in education, among other areas. The shortfall is “immoral,” Harris told members of the National Education Association at a 2019 candidates forum.

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