The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education. In 2022, I began traveling across the country, keynoting education conferences, inspiring teachers to see themselves as humans first. Societal woes seeping into our building.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Maybe you can do that in social studies. This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. More than one in four students in the 2022-23 school year were chronically absent , missing at least 10 percent of the school year.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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. Currently, I serve as the executive director of Thinking Nation , a nonprofit organization working to shift the paradigm of social studies education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As a social studies teacher and a Chinese American immigrant, I find myself subconsciously asking the following questions: How are Asian Americans viewed by the American public? Wayne Zhang is a graduate student at Northwestern University who will be teaching social studies next year at Amundsen High School in Chicago Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

A study published online in April 2024 in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis illustrates the inconsistencies of teacher shortages in Tennessee, where one district had a surplus of high school social studies teachers, while a neighboring district had severe shortages.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.” Bryan Little, the 2022 James Madison Foundation Fellow for Kansas completed his MAHG degree in 2024. For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In 2022, Quinteros’ district, Mason County Central School District, opened a first-of-its-kind immersive room that, with augmented and virtual reality advanced technology, allows students to deepen their learning with interactive, sensory-oriented lessons — from the World War I trenches to erupting volcanoes to ancient Greece.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As districts address unfinished learning, evaluate student growth, and re-engage school communities during the 2021-2022 school year, data equity can highlight where support is needed and help schools better support students’ experiences and needs. Now, the district has expanded its use to grades 6-12, pulling in core course information (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

A design studio at the Bristol Warren Regional School District in Rhode Island hosted by the Center for Inclusive Innovation in the spring of 2022. The center selected two districts for the project: Socorro Independent School District in El Paso, Texas, and the Sunnyside Unified School District in Tucson, Arizona.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2022

When Florida schools begin their 2022-23 school year, teachers will have lost 41 percent of their available math textbooks. Matthew Kincaid, a former social studies teacher and school administrator, is founder, CEO and chief consulting officer of Overcoming Racism.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test. We feel, therefore we learn: The relevance of affective and social neuroscience to education. Hearing himself talk through problems is enough stimulation that he stays focused through even the worst of surface area problems! UDL now! :

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

The 2022 Stanford National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that math and science reading test scores dropped significantly between 2019 and 2022. Emily Toronto, a 5th-grade teacher at Bonneville Elementary in Utah, reported that her lower-level reading students also struggle in social studies and science.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. During the 2022-2023 school year, Lindblom designed a new sophomore course — “Changemakers” — to teach civil discussion and build students’ political efficacy.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

A former social studies teacher at the city’s public boarding high school, Brady-Howard now serves as chair of Indigenous Studies at Outer Coast, where students study Alaska Native literature, beading and the Tlingit language. Alaska has a low college graduation rate compared to other states.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Welcome Rachel Pitkin Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 13:13 Rachel Pitkin is a first-year PhD student in History at the GC. Rachel comes to the GC with a background in education, and in teaching history/social studies.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I hope no behavioral concerns arise, because if I can avoid a parent phone call I might be able to get some of this done—well, that is if I do a virtual assignment during social studies. The issue of teacher pay prevented North Carolina from passing a budget from 2017 to 2022. Oh, shoot. I actually can’t get much of this done.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Since 2022, the district has spent close to a million dollars in Covid-19 relief funds to pay the coaches, principals and teachers to attend these sessions. I always thought that social studies and literacy were more of my thing. What does it mean to be a part of a whole? These ladies really did change my life.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The committees are housed within the Chicago school district’s social science and civic engagement department, which promotes civic engagement in and out of the classroom through K-12 social studies curriculum, service learning and civics-focused project-based learning.

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ASHP CML

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Check out these resources to learn more about efforts to incorporate and preserve LGBTQ+ history topics in our classrooms: SHEC (Social History Project for Every Classroom): [link] Make it Better for Youth: [link] Garden State Equality: [link] Hidden Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories in United States History: [link] GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education (..)

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers. Steve Kohler, a social studies teacher in Sandusky, remarks “[One days] have reinvigorated me as a teacher and given me so much to take back to my students….

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. of all district students) enrolled in a K-12 New York City Public School in 2021-2022. 175,340 Asian American students (comprising 16.6%

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A teacher’s anxiety level and their own science interest significantly predict how effective they will be teaching science, according to Development of the science teaching anxiety scale for preservice elementary teachers: A Rasch analysis, a January 2022 Science Education research article by Elena Novak, Ilker Soyturk, and Shannon L.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. “I honestly cannot imagine teaching social studies without providing each student with a copy of their student publication.” 2022, February). Oxford University Press. 2021, May 9).

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Rachel comes to the GC with a background in education, and in teaching history/social studies. She holds an MA in Museum Studies and an MA in History, and she is a longtime volunteer at the LGBT Community Center National History Archives.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Literacy is the language of social studies, science and knowledge,” said Sharon Vaughn, director of the Meadows Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The new push aimed to get all Texas pre-K through third teachers trained on these concepts by the end of 2022-23, but the pandemic pushed back that deadline.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

At the time of the most recent State of Preschool report in 2022, only 11 states had implemented universal pre-K policies, and only 32% of four-year-olds and 6% of three-year-olds participated in a state-funded pre-K program at all. State of Preschool 2022 yearbook. Rasmussen University. 2020, September 7). Friedman-Krauss, A.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, for monarchy , I use the last public photo of Queen Elizabeth II meeting Prime Minister Liz Truss, officially inviting her to serve in that office in September 2022. Still, they need to be revisited in Civics for one big reason– to understand precisely what the United States government is , you must know what it isn’t.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Then came the anti-CRT movement Andy Rotherham, who was appointed to the state board of education in 2022 by Youngkin, said the outcome of the social studies debate shows that people can get past politics to a good result. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

Kristi Noem, a Republican, signed an executive order in April 2022 restricting how race and equity can be taught in the classroom, Tilsen-Brave Heart decided to enroll her daughter at Oceti Sakowin Community Academy, a newly opened private school in Rapid City. 25, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. South Dakota Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2022

Jennifer Randall, an associate professor of education measurement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, founded the Center for Measurement Justice in January 2022. She is joining the University of Michigan in the fall of 2022. She launched the Center for Measurement Justice at the start of 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In 2022, we got a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Horsley. The standards, which went into effect this fall, introduce students as young as kindergarteners to the subject, not just in science class but in the arts, world languages, social studies and physical education. Yeah,” the students chimed in. “In

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. Lusher enrolls students in kindergarten through 12th grade across its two buildings.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition. Courtney Bennis High School Social Studies Teacher, Virginia Beach, Virginia A huge “Thank you!” I will use it in my APUSH classes as well as my Ethnic Studies classes!

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The Effects of Writing on Learning in Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics: A Meta-Analysis. Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading: A report from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Kiuhara, S. A., & MacKay, M. Review of Educational Research , 90(2), 179-226. Graham, S., & Hebert, M. Shanahan, T.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

I experimented with a few other career paths before I became a district executive for the Boy Scouts of America in September 2022. Since starting my career, the dynamic of my department has changed a few times, so I’ve taught ELA by itself as well as ELA and social studies.

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