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.”. In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time.

Teaching 137

Teaching Civics K-12 Social Science 137

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. So how are teacher prep programs responding?

K-12 112

K-12 Advocacy High School History Education 112

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

But no matter how hard we try we can’t help but see the inequities, the injustice, the hypocrisy in our education system. We went from being heroes and essential workers during the spring of 2020 to being viewed as babysitters by politicians around the country. Right now the educators may be in one of the greatest exoduses in history.

Advocacy 118

Advocacy Teaching Public School History Education 118