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MARCH 25, 2025

In their study of almost 3,000 students across 30 schools, researchers found that systematically building background knowledge through science instruction improved reading comprehension not just in science texts but also in various subjects, including history and literature. percent for English language arts and 25.3

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MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Four years ago this month, one of the most devastating wildfires in Oregon’s history erupted across the southern portion of the state. As the COVID pandemic raged, leaving children out of schools and away from regular routines and social interactions, the fire only magnified the disruption. We take a close look at two of them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

After starting elementary school in the late 1960s, Naomi Hirahara and three other girls formed a clique called the C.L.A.N., Having lived through the desegregation order, Hirahara, who is now an award-winning mystery writer , wishes more people knew about the history of the city’s schools. PASADENA, Calif.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. They help students understand what real people of the past saw, felt, and heard as they lived through the events we study in school. Their family stories are history!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We’re excited to bring you more episodes this year, including more installments in our new series about growing public skepticism about higher education and the impact that is having on the choices students make after high school. If you have a suggestion for a topic or guest for 2024, please send that my way at jeff@edsurge.com.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

On Monday, June 10, 2024 , scholar Brian Jones, in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian, will shed light on the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the North and ways that those stories can be included in the curriculum. Jones recently worked on the New York City Civil Rights History Project.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Jigsaw Strategy first appeared on Studies Weekly. Jigsaw Strategy Oct.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bradshaw wishes more teachers would teach civics and history through Studies Weekly. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 The post Studies Weekly Spotlight: Texas Teacher Shares Passion for Nonfiction first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

history, in 1801 and 1825. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Lesson 5: Electing Congress and the President (Grades 4-5) first appeared on Studies Weekly. When this happens, each state gets one vote.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

They’re familiar rituals in rural communities throughout the state, where public schools can play an outsized role, serving as social and cultural hubs, major employers and sources of collective pride and community identity. “I These last two sessions have been the most conservative in Texas history,” Rogers told the crowd.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In Memoriam: Mary-Kay Gamel Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:26 Image In Memoriam: Mary-Kay Gamel (submitted by Amy R. Mary-Kay Gamel died June 26, 2024, in Santa Rosa, California. July 12, 2024 1 Mary-Kay Gamel, “Translation and/in Performance: My experiments,” in Geraldine Brodie and Emma Cole (eds.)

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JUNE 15, 2024

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. She received an enthusiastic response, with many educators affirming the need to teach banned books and banned history. From there, participants heard about the history and present day efforts to protect the Wyandot burial grounds.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

This is an adapted excerpt from “School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics and the Battle for Public Education” by Laura Pappano. Copyright 2024. Lindsey Kimery, the coordinator of library services for Metro-Nashville Public Schools, said she has “no hidden agenda other than that reading was my favorite thing.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Lumen High School stocks its on-site baby boutique with clothing and personal hygiene products for students and their children. One student attended 16 elementary schools. Six high schools before junior year,” Pettey said. Think of the learning missed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In 1953, Brbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by farm fields. Brbara Flores stands inside her old kindergarten classroom at Washington Elementary School in Madera on Oct. The school opened a dual language program in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As early as elementary school, “we grew up having to learn about lockdowns” in response to mass shootings, said Andrew LoMonte, one of the students staffing the voter table. What people are realizing is that the issues the candidates are talking about actually matter to us.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

Maraida Caraballo Martinez has been an educator in Puerto Rico for 28 years and the principal of the elementary school Escuela de la Communidad Jaime C. She never knows how much money her school in Yabucoa will receive from the government each year because it isnt based on the number of children enrolled.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

. — Caroline Preston School safety, student mental health When it comes to school safety, Trump has supported policies that prioritize the “hardening” of schools and strict disciplinary approaches. Trump’s 2024 platform advocates undercutting some of the protections teachers unions support.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

If history is a guide, though, some of Trump’s rhetoric already threatens colleges’ missions and their budgets. These are students, as they constantly remind me, who grew up having to learn how to defend themselves in elementary school against mass shootings. Kirk] Mitchell Sounds hopeful.

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