The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

Would March 2021 look different from November 2020? Give us some leadership. It’s obvious you want to be remembered fondly by the history books, but typically history only reflects well on leaders who show some capacity for assuming responsibility in the face of adversity. Be transparent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2024

The Board and senior leadership worked out confidential agreements with other institutions to support our students in the event of a closure.” Middle States took Wells off probation in the summer of 2021, despite enrollment having cratered to about 330 that year from about 420 the previous one. The college declined to comment.)

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

But even states with Democratic leadership have struggled to do so. In a nutshell, these programs exemplify meaningful, targeted investments in marginalized populations and represent a significant course reversal from much of United States history. Looking at average breakdowns from recent data , we see that U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2023

El-Mekki said the fund will allow educators to push back against the “fake hysteria about teaching accurate history and allowing students and teachers to show up as their true authentic selves.” El-Mekki’s organization is also part of a second campaign, One Million Teachers of Color, which launched in 2021.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

Fourteen years after its founding and with a misinformation landscape many magnitudes more dire than anyone could’ve predicted, the News Literacy Project will herald in a new CEO this summer, marking a transition in leadership but not a change in direction for the education-focused nonprofit. 6, 2021, chief among them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Teaching real history will not bring children down based on the color of the skin, but will raise them up and inspire them to stand up and not repeat gruesome patterns.” Lizzie Koschnick, student, North Central High School, Indianapolis. history teacher. “I Purple for Parents Indiana. It’s a reaction to social advances.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. As of 2021, 694 Libby residents had died of asbestos related diseases. Cultivating homegrown leadership is part of the community resilience model that Blank bases her work off of. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report It also places the Rodriguez sisters on opposite sides of history: Ashley applied to college when schools in many states could still consider race, while Emily can expect no such advantage. percent in 2021. We have so much history behind us as people of color,” Emily said. “So

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In September 2024, EdNCs early childhood team attended The Hunt Institute's 2024 Early Childhood Leadership Summit , which included teams from all 50 states comprised of senior elected officials, gubernatorial staff, mayors, local elected leaders, and key early childhood system leaders. It includes $26.25

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It had always been his plan, and he had no reason to doubt it: He’d earned a full scholarship to college and acceptance into a leadership program designed to attract and retain Black male teachers. By 2021, that had declined to 15. Everett Anderson was determined to become a teacher. This story also appeared in USA Today. asks James.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

“We are delighted to welcome Kim Mealy to this critical leadership role. We are very excited about this new chapter in the APSA’s evolution under Kim’s leadership,” said APSA President, Mark Warren. million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4 Dr. Kimberly A.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

In the summer of 2021, the Society for Human Resource Management surveyed 500 executives, 1,200 supervisors, 1,129 human resource professionals, and 1,525 workers who don’t supervise other employees about their attitudes toward alternative credentials. For a job seeker, impressing an HR manager or a potential supervisor matters a lot.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This particular small college has what it says is the country’s only four-year bachelor’s degree in automotive restoration, a major that combines engineering, history, business, communication, art and other disciplines. That’s an unusual ambition for a small college — which is exactly the point.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Harvard University Press. Stewart, A. First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School. Chicago Review. Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies. Princeton University Press. Watters, A. Teaching Machines. The MIT Press.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the meantime, the checkered history of school reform did not seem top of mind for students from Coolidge. students (48 percent) were absent for 10 percent or more of the 2021-2022 school year, according to a report from the D.C. You gotta have the willingness of the leadership team to be flexible,” she said. “If

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. This was 2021, and Iowa had just passed its history censorship law. Here are highlights from the remarks. I was teaching for critical thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Each of Maine’s 124 high schools is required to offer such diplomas to the Class of 2021, next fall’s ninth graders. But the school’s efforts have foundered because of changing school and district leadership, differing buy-in from the teachers and parental concerns about how it will all translate onto college applications.

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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. In the end, a leadership change paved the way to victory in Holmes County.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

Through our Voices of Change project, EdSurge has been conversing with educators and school leaders to understand how schools are adapting to meet the needs of their learning communities as they face the 2021-22 school year. Even hailing from vastly different corners of the U.S., in an interview. “At

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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. Up until 2022, when version 9.0

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

The Schenectady district fortified its five-year-old diversion program in 2021 when it started to see more students, even those in middle school, landing in long-term suspension because of post-pandemic behavior problems after they returned to in-person learning.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

percent of American school teachers, according to a widely cited federal survey of the 2020-2021 school year. Like when we have states that say they're trying to recruit diverse educators, but [are] also telling them, “Erase yourself and your history as you're filling out that application.” So that's the number one reason.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The teacher-led rallies received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. In Florida, Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Despite this history, Brown, like many of his colleagues, said a bill requiring schools to provide suicide prevention education to students was legislative overreach. Birkholz believes state leadership is necessary. history or a specific take on biology. Ultimately, the bill failed.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Murray, Weber State University (Presenter) Allison Rank, SUNY, Oswego State Session Description: Democratic erosion in the United States—rendered vivid in the events of January 6, 2021—as well as the global decline of democratic regimes should push us to reflect on how we introduce politics to students.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 9, 2024

He put us in the history. SNCC Veteran Jennifer Lawson on Laying the Groundwork for Student Activism and Black Power Jennifer Lawson talks about her time at Tuskegee University and the knowledge and history shared at Historically Black Colleges and Universities before and during the Civil Rights Movement. Then we had at that time E.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. Donate so that we can continue to organize events like these and defend the right of teachers across the United States to teach peoples history. Or plan a history walking tour, book exchange, rally, etc.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

The Philadelphia school district is among many nationwide facing a leadership change. 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. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It is also rooted in history. “I I argue it started in 1619,” with the free care that enslaved people were forced to provide for infants and toddlers, says Maurice Sykes, senior associate at the Early Childhood Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C. “K-12 Despite years of organizing and lobbying, the campaign ended in 2014.

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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. HISD leadership is a disaster…. It failed on a 5-4 vote. On January 3, Gov. Abbott responded with a scathing tweet : “What a joke.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Detroit’s history has been shaped by the same kind of structural racism that has led many American school districts to operate crumbling school buildings in which students like Vasquez spend their childhoods. The exterior of East English Village Preparatory Academy in Detroit, pictured in June 2021.

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Civics U

MARCH 10, 2022

However, the original intent of this column was to review and solidify foundational American principles and history that can provide reference points for considering present developments and debates. The total expenditures by the federal government for fiscal year 2021 were $6.82 s response is certainly of critical importance.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Back in March of this year, EdSurge published my article outlining the nearly 400-year history of higher education in America, how that past shapes the way the country views colleges today, and why microcredentials , while critical to the future of the U.S. percent in 2021 to 12.4 economy, are causing a dilemma for the academy.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Largest Dataset to Date The researchers analyzed the most extensive dataset of human fossil evidence ever compiled, spanning seven million years of evolutionary history. However, the new study challenges this idea, presenting a more nuanced perspective of incremental growth. Source: F1000Research. Triki, Z., & Bshary, R.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 31, 2025

The depth of the activity went beyond most simulations, took students on a deep dive of the material, and helped them see the full complexity of a period in the movement history – and understand the full complexity of political movements that occur across people, organizations, and conflicting priorities.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Its “ 1776 Curriculum ” for grades K-12 has been criticized for revisionist history, including whitewashed accounts of US slavery and depictions of Jamestown as a failed communist colony. Also in 2021 came Pennridge’s first serious battles over diversity programs. Then there was the curriculum.

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