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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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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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And in one IB history class, she said a teacher had students pick cotton seeds off cotton plants to demonstrate the efficiency of the cotton gin, in an attempt to include multiple perspectives in his class. Samuels/The Hechinger Report Virginia’s rewrite of its history curriculum started off with heat and discord. Credit: Christina A.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school.

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

ASKING “THE GODDAMN INDIAN” In March 2021, I (co-author Alicia) met with George and his son, Mike, over Zoom. For knowledge of the area’s history, O utsider researchers naturally draw on ethnographic, historic, and archaeological data—but their knowledge of the details is patchy. This increased tensions with Outsiders.

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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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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

Dr. Holden held numerous on academic appointments and leadership positions at the American Political Science Association (APSA), serving as the APSA President (98-99), Vice President (76-77), and numerous APSA committeesincluding the Ethics Committee and the APSR Editorial Board (89-92), the Ralph J. UIS professor Matthew Holden, Jr.

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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

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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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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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

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

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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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Anthropology.net

APRIL 9, 2025

378, Teotihuacan forces intervened in Tikal's leadership, deposing the reigning king and installing a ruler aligned with their interests. Such insights enrich our understanding of Mesoamerican history, revealing the complex tapestry of alliances, conquests, and cultural syntheses that shaped the ancient world.​ Garrison, T. .​

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They’re constantly looked over for promotions and leadership opportunities, or pigeonholed into disciplinarian roles. It was his dream, and he began teaching the course a couple years before debates about teaching Black history and critical race theory swept the nation.

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