The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

These include writing culturally relevant lesson plans, automating report cards and helping translate communication with parents. Presenters also highlighted stark differences between how preschool classrooms in different countries are using technology and the cultural gaps in attitudes about technology post-pandemic.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

According to medical anthropologist Eileen Moyer , the sculptor Nicolas Dings included this imagery to invoke thoughts of cultural diversity and tolerance toward migrants. Moyer, who is from the U.S., sees herself reflected in the parakeets. They may be migrants to the city, she writes, but its quickly become their home.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

2022 reads you shouldn’t miss. Check out what you need to know: Edthena’s new AI Coach has resources [for] teachers with a range of tasks including managing student behavior, facilitating group discussions, providing feedback for students and culturally responsive teaching. 2022 top resources for teachers and coaches ! .

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

In 2022, only 22 percent of eighth graders tested proficient or above in understanding how this countrys constitutional democracy is supposed to work and how to apply that knowledge. When it comes to civics, the federal government usually plays a limited role, reasonably restricted from imposing a national curriculum.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

the 2022 teacher of the year in Kentucky who is gay and who quit the profession out of fear amid growing hostility toward LGBTQ educators and students at his school. I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place. One guest was Willie Carver Jr., So the podcast I created is a place to do that.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Attending school in America has been a “positive culture shock” to Marzia Mohammadi, a 17-year-old senior at Mt. Credit: Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource When Muzhda Ayubi arrived in Pittsburgh as a refugee in October 2022, she was the only person in her family who spoke English. Lebanon High School. Voluntary agencies such as the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Scores on an international math test fell a record 15 points between 2018 and 2022 — the equivalent of students losing three-quarters of a school year of learning. On the 2022 survey, about 70 percent of students reported regularly receiving extra help from teachers , but that figure represents a drop of 3 percentage points from 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

Life at her new school started to change for the better when she began learning the music of her Native Hawaiian culture. “It Recent progress at all levels of government is at risk as pandemic relief funds sunset and revenues for states and school districts dip. When 15-year-old Ka’iulani Iaea first moved schools, she struggled.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

Yet, for far too long, students have been left out of decision-making conversations, even though our voices are needed more than ever, and our perspectives are vital for fostering inclusive and effective governance. Shiva Rajbhandari was elected to the Boise School District Board of Trustees in 2022 while still a senior in high school.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

A 2022 UCLA-MIT Press study found that higher education struggles to capture and leverage data for impact. This digital disconnect isnt just a result of outdated systems; its about the complex web of cultural, organizational and infrastructural barriers that leave many institutions data-rich but insight-poor.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction on cleansing one’s hands. This particular activity comes on the heels of a discussion of cultural universals in comparative perspective.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In December, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture described the predicament as “extremely disconcerting.” Finland is now one of the leaders in using digital devices at school, ranking sixth overall in the 2022 PISA study. teacher and parent living in Finland, I understand the concern.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last year, I had the privilege of learning and leading as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a CCSSO National Finalist. Everett Collection/Shutterstock At the same time, I also recognize that my privileged experience in Hawaiʻi was forged by settler culture , the effects of which still persist in the state educational system.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. Being equipped as citizens goes beyond our ability to name the three branches of government or the history of political parties.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. Before his career in higher education, Rogelio worked in the federal government at the U.S. She was granted tenure in 2010 and promoted to Senior II Tenured Faculty in 2018.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. A lot of people talk about the issue of hiring. It’s not an issue. It’s not an issue.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. In this way, Todd and Sonkin reinforced the stereotype of the Okies as country bumpkins, making them seem far less connected to mainstream American culture than they actually were.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. Fischer, and other German scholars recruited by the Russian government to report on the peoples of the newly explored eastern territories. Petersburg in the 1760s, where he ed with G. Müller, J.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Nevertheless, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) State of Preschool 2023 Yearbook , in 2022-2023, more than 60 percent of pre-K children served were in public school settings, not private programs or home-based child care options.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

Attend student government meetings. Tlingit culture as well as aspects of other Native cultures are being taught in that space. Only about a third of the state’s high school class of 2022 were enrolled in postsecondary education within a year following graduation, according to the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Just past the rusty roof of the building across the road, we could see the top of Regjeringskvartalet, a cluster of government offices, the target of that car bomb. Norway is a top producer of oil which helped generate a per capita household income that was over $104,000 in 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Recent world migration reports note that, by the end of 2022, the total number of refugees was the highest ever recorded with modern statistical techniques. It represents a key example of how Tibetan refugees have established institutionalized, international education that preserves, advances, and shares Buddhist culture and philosophy.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

The center worked with the National Indian Child Care Association to analyze 184 tribal child care plans submitted to HHS for the 2019-2022 fiscal year. There are a handful of government offices—like the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department and HHS—that would need to collaborate on the issue, Smith says.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Oregon joined this list, beginning with the 2022-23 school year, when then-Gov. Studies suggest affordability is one of the leading causes of attrition.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2018

Employers in the United States, and countries worldwide, face a critical shortage of professionals trained in protecting corporate and government computer networks and systems from cyberattack. million cybersecurity professionals by 2022. “At million cybersecurity professionals by 2022. will grow 28 percent by 2026.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2021

California Assemblymember Marc Berman, a Democrat from the Bay Area, is trying to secure an additional, recurring allotment of $30 million to fund a basic needs center and coordinator on every community college campus in the state by July 2022.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

The typical teacher works a median of 54 hours a week, according to a nationally representative survey from 2022 administered by the EdWeek Research Center. Those responsibilities all regularly tip teachers’ work weeks past 40 hours. It’s a reality that troubles teachers across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. Tribal nations and states have struggled with state and federal governments over jurisdiction and land since the inception of the United States, says Alex Pearl, who is Chickasaw and a professor of law at the University of Oklahoma.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Recently, I was humbled and honored to be named the 2022-23 Teacher of the Year in my county as well as one of seven finalists for the state of Maryland. Kennedy’s support for the arts was admirable, but unfortunately, due to a number of societal factors, it wasn’t enough to increase arts education offerings for students in public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

according to Holroyd Pearce, partners with universities, colleges and governments, which typically fund the program or grant academic credit — often to students who face barriers to getting work experience. The experience “changed my life,” she said, opening her eyes to new career possibilities as well as a new culture.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” This was the theme of the most recent cases the teachers read.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

In 2022, NAFCC partnered with the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) to survey nearly 13,000 FCC providers about whether and how they used the child care stabilization grants — and to better understand what might happen if the funding is not renewed.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

history, from early America to the 1990s, and engaged sources suited for classroom use, including military and government records, oral history interviews, literature, photography, and organizational archives. The institute introduced the rich body of recent scholarship covering the span of U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

The new data reflects the 2021-2022 school year and reveals that, nationwide, there was an average of 408 students for every one school counselor. Once that happened and they saw the negative impact [that the cuts] had on students and student outcomes and school culture, they reinstated school counselors, hired more school counselors.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. The i-Ready Assessment at Columbus shows improvements in on grade-level reading from the fall of 2021 to the winter of 2022, said Cardenas, the school’s principal.

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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

Subsequently their work involved the development, variously, of agriculture, inventions and tools, social and political systems, schools, transportation, industry, and various cultural enterprises. The impacts are not only economic but are also cultural. This author recalls meeting Hopi tribal elders John and Mina Lanza in the 1960’s.

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