The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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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

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

JANUARY 31, 2022

Students seemed to do better on computers in English and social studies, but better with pencil and paper in math. An earlier 2006 study found that low-income students scored better on paper exams than digital ones. Other studies have shown almost no difference between the two modes. .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Journalist Natalie Wexler, author of the 2019 book The Knowledge Gap, said the study ought to spark a re-evaluation of the usual approach to reading comprehension in schools, which frequently focuses on skills, such as asking students to find the main idea and make inferences. However, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

In San Antonio, Texas, high school history teacher Luke Amphlett said he never insists on students keeping their cameras on during virtual instruction. Brian Westlake, a high school social studies teacher in Georgia’s Gwinnett County, also said the pandemic has meant putting restorative discipline on pause.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2020

District Court Judge Allison Burroughs rejected claims that Harvard discriminated against Asian American applicants in 2019, Students for Fair Admissions took the matter to the court of appeals. And we’ll omit essential voices pushed to the margins throughout our history. This has enriched the academic experience of all students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year. The hope is that if kids can become proficient in reading early on, they’ll be much more likely to succeed in all of their subjects, from science to social studies, because students need to know how to read to learn the material.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

Elementary teachers can help students hone these skills through science, social studies, and health. Soft Skills in Social Studies There is a clear connection between social studies and soft skills like: communication, emotional intelligence, teamwork, and cultural awareness.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 29, 2019

Trevor Hlushko, Grades 5 and 6 ELA, Social Studies, Science, French Teacher, and Grades 5-8 Math Teacher at W.H. Josh Luukkonen, Grade 9 Social Studies Teacher and Head of Department at Sir John Thompson Catholic High School in Edmonton Catholic School District, Alberta. Become an HP Teaching Fellow.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Learning of a Social Studies opening in an intriguing, “alternative” public high school, Hawkins considered giving teaching another go.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The only major topic still not featured is Crew, and two books and several videos to cover that subject are now underway and should be ready by the fall of 2019. Berger said that there are now 10 books and around 250 videos covering everything from student-engaged assessments to learning showcases to examples of expeditions.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These spacewalks are commemorated on the reverse of the 2019 Sacagawea dollar coin. Discover more perspectives and experiences through Studies Weekly’s social studies and science products. During the mission, Herrington performed three spacewalks, totaling 19 hours and 55 minutes. 2, 2020, for AIP.org.

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Moler's Musing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This week in 8th-grade social studies, we dove deep into the Constitutional Convention and the ratification debates, using a variety of EduProtocols to engage students and build understanding. In 2019, Ohio had 16 representatives in the House. Identify a state with the fewest people. Why do you think they only have 15 now?

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I observed that students cling to partisanship as a means of making sense of what they see and hear; in 2019, partisanship has become this generation’s lens. The syllabus for my class was based heavily on civic history and government. Related: How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world.

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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. We are not what they’re saying we are,’” said former Wheatley social studies teacher Kendra Yarbrough-Camarena.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

If you’re reading this and you teach math, history, science, foreign language, art, or any other subject, I want to make a compelling case for the powerful impact that writing can have in your class and on your students. The Effects of Writing on Learning in Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics: A Meta-Analysis.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Are you asking about my culture, what languages I speak, or what my family history is?” First grade teacher Mayrin Bunyagidj in Northern California, for example, said that she will often respond by asking her young students clarifying questions. “I I always just go back with … what do you mean by that? … American Psychological Association. ⁷

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C3 Teachers

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In fact, the study of history (or any social studies) is an attempt to move from what is certain to what is uncertain.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

A limping recovery: 2016 to 2024 Flores spent 40 years training future teachers before retiring in 2019. Viviana Valerio, a kindergarten teacher, said that history made bilingual education an intimidating proposition. They can learn social studies in Spanish; its still history and geography.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. Independence or Catastrophe?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. We are just saying that it’s for Congress and the executive to resolve these problems, Olson said during a November 2019 hearing before U.S. District Judge Steven Logan.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

Her seventh grade social studies class, like every other in Jefferson County Public Schools, the largest school district in Kentucky, would be online. More than 100 positions were unfilled at the start of the 2019-20 school year. Paul, Minnesota, native, studied Spanish and history at Marquette University in Wisconsin.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

If our students only learn about this exceptionally strange system from their corporate-produced history and government textbooks, they will have no clue why this is how we choose our president. Constitution, so that our institutions seem outside of history and beyond politics.

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