The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Brandt Robinson, a history teacher from Dunedin High School in Florida, described how, during the 2021-22 school year, a student in his African-American history class dropped out three days in. Robinson later found out that the student’s mother had enrolled him in the class to get a copy of the course syllabus.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Only a third of American students are reading proficiently at grade level, according to national benchmark tests.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history. He was the recipient of The NEA Foundation’s top honor, the NEA Member Benefits Award for Teaching Excellence, in 2020, and the 2019 New York State Teacher of the Year award.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Sean Brennan Brennan, a frequent participant in Teaching American History seminars , has long promoted civic education and civil cooperation at the local and state level. In 2020, Brennan began bringing local naturalization ceremonies into the high school. Being on the Council furnished endless lessons for my classes,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips. By 2020, Steiner wants Northern Cass to be the district hosting visitors, as a mentor to other schools mulling the idea of nixing grade levels. “On

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 9, 2024

In any class that focuses on the Founding era in our MA in American History & Government program (MAHG) , you’re almost certainly going to discuss Federalist #1 and how often human history is shaped by “accident and force” instead of “reflection and choice.” I was thrilled to hear her advice.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2016

Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. If, by 2020, students of color were grading high school and college at the same rates as white students, the U.S. Jennifer Riley-Collins is the executive director of the ACLU of Mississippi.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

The XQ prize money, paid out over the next five years in $2 million installments, will fund total conversion of the school by 2020. Jeb Dickerson, who teaches American history to juniors in the pilot academy, found his students growing restless while working on independent projects he’d designed to give them more freedom.

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Civics U

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Immigration and immigration reform have been issues in past American history, and are still issues in American government and politics. This article will not enter that debate, but will review key elements in immigration history and law. The following figures show the top 10 countries of origin for immigrants in 2020: 1.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The new Vaux welcomed its first class of 126 ninth-graders in September; it plans to serve 504 students by 2020. Ninth-grader Layla Stevens, 15, visited the National Museum of Jewish American History on one RWL trip. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She was director of exhibitions at the New York Public Library, and previously a senior content developer and interpretive planner in the New York office of the museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, where she worked on the development of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, along with other international projects.

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4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

Test scores fell after the year of interrupted schooling in 2020-21, and anyone who was in the classroom during the 2021-22 school year can testify to the fact that students who were not in school the year before missed a lot of learning about positive school habits and behaviors.

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Future of History

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Here’s how Sarah Cooper taught her 8th grade social studies class today, as the nation went about determining a presidential winner. Unlike the day after the 2016 election, “I’m feeling not so much shock as the need to shore up my teaching and once again dig into difficult topics.” The post The Day After: How Do We Teach Now?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we have argued elsewhere , at the heart of the current efforts is deep-seated disagreement “over whether and to what extent racism is embedded in American history and institutions, how racism should be acknowledged and combatted, and who bears responsibility for ongoing racial discrimination and injustice.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As of this fall, it had 198,645 students, compared with 205,778 in the 2019-2020 school year, and was still trying to track down students who’d gone missing. Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. It feels like we are living in this weird dystopia.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

When sports practices were abruptly canceled at his school on March 12, 2020, Michael Liao, then 17, started to worry how much the pandemic would affect his school – and particularly his upcoming theater performance. All three planned to graduate at the end of the 2020-21 school year. Mana Setayesh. Mana Setayesh.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Number and percentage distribution of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees/certificates conferred by postsecondary institutions, by race/ ethnicity, level of degree/certificate, and sex of student: Academic years 2011-12 through 2020-21. [ii] ii] Kim, Jung & Hsieh, Betina, 2022.

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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. . • Pre-institute reading: Louis Masur, The U.S. in Marc Simpson, ed.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. The district has been operating fully in person with masks optional since the end of the 2020-2021 school year. This spring, the district repeatedly dropped and then reimposed a mask mandate as Covid rates rose and fell. .

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Strange Maps

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

As the AP reported back in 2020, the popularity of “Wyoming denial” may have started with an episode of the cartoon television series Garfield and Friends , which first aired in November 1989. No word on how many visitors end up in Canada, without clothes or memories. But more importantly, Wyoming is also conceptually empty.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I never took a course in African American history during that time, the late 1980s and early 90s, despite being enveloped in Blackness in my neighborhoods, churches and schools. My knowledge of Black history came as sprinkling rain, a paltry amount that was never enough to have a significant impact.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Students must be held accountable for learning the truth about American history and racism in this country. Students must be held accountable for learning the truth about American history and racism in this country. White supremacy is facilitated by bad history and civic education. Biden’s $1.9

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Is American history education the problem? Second, the sorry state of American history textbooks creates an opportunity to provide new high-quality curriculum options that build knowledge sequentially from kindergarten to 12th grade. Related: Most Mississippians can’t pass U.S. citizenship exam.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 23, 2024

Blackwell’s Contributions to Medicine Elizabeth Blackwell’s First Medical Offices (2020) Village Preservation Project By the summer of 1851, she had returned to New York and was in the process of setting up her own practice. The post Elizabeth Blackwell, Female Pioneer in Medicine appeared first on Teaching American History.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. I wish I kept notes, but maybe close to April 2020, I realized this wouldn’t be so hard on kids. The district’s enrollment recovered somewhat from the 2020-21 school year but has yet to achieve pre-pandemic levels.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

That money came through a federal program that pumped $24 billion in grants to child care centers across the country to keep them running during the pandemic — part of the single largest investment in child care in American history. The child care workforce, largely women of color, is one of the most precarious in the country.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

April 2020. History this Week. The History Channel. Malik Ali, a James Madison Fellow and 2017 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, is Tukman Distinguished Teacher of History at the Branson School in Ross, California. Scene On Radio. Season 4, Episode 7. Dittmer, John.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

For example, during the unrest of 2020, the Annie E. In addition, conservatives are attempting to assuage or eliminate any feelings of guilt or accountability their white followers might have for this troubling past: White politicians seemingly don’t dare allow children to know that their ancestors and the U.S. Ignore the cries.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Twin Falls, named for the waterfalls formed by the Snake River Canyon dam, which in the early 1900s turned the area from desert into a rich agricultural region now called “The Magic Valley,” is politically conservative (70 percent voted for Donald Trump in 2020). Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

I hear echoes of this argument when, for instance, Trump blamed Howard Zinn’s writing for inciting the riots during the 2020 uprising. One of the most fascinating parts of the book for me was how you develop this argument that Black education has been associated with criminality. Muhammad: I had not thought about this, Jesse.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Like previous generations of Black students, you must not only master language arts, social studies, math and art, you must do so while still demanding equal treatment and funding for schools, diverse teachers, safe and healthy learning conditions and rich curricular offerings, including the study of Black people’s contributions to American history.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 22, 2023

Given the number of states that ban the teaching of accurate, factual history, it’s seems to me impossible to expect students to be prepared to take an American history test. How can students answer questions about elections and the Electoral College when Trumpers believe they were corrupted in 2020?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2021

In 1963, James Baldwin wrote, “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” We will all be well served to bear in mind how conflicted American history is, and to learn from those who have paved the way for a future brighter than our past.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Coupled with a steady state of 3 percent homeschooling, for the first time in American history, a majority of school-aged children are not enrolled in traditional public schools. More than three-quarters of American children and youth are enrolled in traditional public schools.

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