ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans. on March 21, 2021.

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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. Covid hit in the middle of the experiment.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

From 2000 to 2020, Delaware experienced the highest increase in its percentage of English learners, followed by Maryland and Virginia. Geography is another hardship for potential bilingual educators. Toma un pueblo; It does take a village. Mandatory English immersion wasn’t repealed in California until 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Based on a sample of more than 7,000 9-year-olds around the country, two decades of academic progress in reading and math were erased from 2020 to 2022. This graph from the statistical unit of the Education Department shows the history of the Long-Term Trend NAEP with the sudden plummet in test scores since the start of the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2020, 24 percent of teachers were considering leaving their current state or the profession within five years; a year later, that number had grown to 30 percent, a Brookings Institution report found. Not surprisingly, a concerning number of educators have grown dissatisfied with their jobs and are eyeing exits.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A lot of effort has gone into this from the English team, and the geography team will be offering their support. In the Geography department, we are going to be running two Fantasy Mapping workshops. It is mostly about history, the mind, and the curriculum - but it is also a little bit about dragons.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. Sixteen of them have closed just since 2020. Criminal justice.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. My intent as an UGRR participant was to stretch my local history knowledge and to sharpen my historical-geographical thinking skills.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Among the initiatives in the strategy is a new GCSE qualification in Natural History to be introduced from 2025, which some teachers hope could be a focal point for teaching on climate change. Similar policy and curricula updates have been seen around the world.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By integrating traditional ethnographic methods with those from classic ethology, geography, and the humanities, I answer novel questions related to the co-production of multispecies conviviality. Essentially, if we want to live in a biodiverse world, we need to reintegrate ourselves.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

The program began enrolling classes of 75 in 2020. The region’s geography and culture give the program key advantages when it comes to recruiting local students. The program has slowly gained popularity, which is reflected in enrollment growth, Castineyra says. Back in 2006, it started with 50 students.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

She planned to major in digital media arts, but before she could start, Delta State eliminated that major, along with 20 other degree programs , including history, English, chemistry and music. Azariah Journey is a second-year graduate student in history at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, which is cutting 20 degree programs. “Is

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zooming out from individual casualties to the overall death toll, the dead of Everest start to form a morbid geography of sorts, which does more than simply horrify. Credit: pointofnoreturn.org) This first map shows the geography of the mountain, with a flag planted for each place where one or more climbers died.

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Geography Humanities History 121

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

In April 2020 he released a bestselling book with co-author Judy Mikovits, a discredited scientist who claim that vaccines “kill millions.” One of the top subjects for those emergency credentials is middle school science: The state issued 83 emergency credentials in the topic in 2020. Last October the pair released another book.

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Living Geography

JULY 24, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History Blog which has over 300 posts on it already. With some additional content. A nicely illustrated story from The Guardian described a plan to green the rooves of Paris.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017. Starting in fall 2020, the library hosted IT specialists and teachers from the school in one of the library’s conference rooms. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Related link: How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Starting in 2020, the office began putting together educator guides out of “a real and immediate need” to address political events, school shootings, hate crimes and various heritage months, as topics within the classroom, she said.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While an individual or group may think that they are an island, the geography teacher in me can see that their island, like everyone else’s, is in the middle of concentric circles of scale. The killing of George Floyd in May 2020 enabled a global resurgence of empowerment to the Black Lives Matter and decolonisation movements.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Viviana Valerio, a kindergarten teacher, said that history made bilingual education an intimidating proposition. In 2020, Flores alma mater Washington Elementary became Madera Unifieds second dual-language school, welcoming its first class of kindergartners who are expected to leave proficient in both English and Spanish.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To understand Operation Christmas Drop, it helps to have some history and geography. In late 2020, Netflix released Operation Christmas Drop , a holiday love story with Guams breathtaking beaches as backdrops. In ignoring this history, she says, They made [a] mockery of us as happy natives. From 1946 to 1958, the U.S.

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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. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.

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Humanities Oral History Archiving Pedagogy 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, worked for roughly two decades in public schools, as a geography teacher and football coach. Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s.

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