The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Many of the advocacy groups that filed challenges did so multiple times in different school districts. Teachers cannot sit idly by and watch states pass laws that restrict our ability to promote critical thinking and literacy in the classroom.

Cultures 137

Cultures Advocacy Lesson Plan High School 137

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

“I have a responsibility to a functioning democracy, with students who are well equipped [with] critical thinking skills that they will learn as a result of this.”. Related: How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students.

Teaching 132

Teaching Civics K-12 Social Science 132

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

However, there are hundreds of jobs, such as public policy research and advocacy, with which students may not be as familiar. Many students start college with the goal of entering a commonly known profession — doctor, lawyer or teacher, to name a few. see College Scorecard ).

Economics 116

Economics Advocacy Critical Thinking Research 116

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. That said, it’s often difficult to effectively tell the story about how librarians make a difference for students and colleagues.

Library 114

Library Artifacts Advocacy Professional Development 114

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

“When these kids go off to college there have been lots of studies that say they’re not prepared with the communication, critical thinking and collaboration skills they need,” said Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education and a co-founder of Challenge Success, a nonprofit education advocacy group.

Teaching 104

Teaching Education Psychology High School 104

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Most states have something on the books to encourage competency-based options, but only about a half-dozen have loosened seat-time dictates enough to dispense with grade levels, according to Matt Williams, chief operating officer and vice president of policy and advocacy for the personalized-learning nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. Students with other disabilities, such as autism, may have trouble knowing how to act in social situations.

High School 91

High School Advocacy Teaching Critical Thinking 91

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Poor schools are told not to wander too far from the standards, there’s little time for student questions and critical thinking. University research and policy in an era of advocacy philanthropists and agenda-setting organizations. Teachers are obliged to write on the board the specific skill (and number) that they’re teaching.

Education 91

Education K-12 Anthropology Advocacy 91

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

It’s not black and white, there is a lot of critical thinking,” Asknes said. She also referred Hernandez to an advocacy center at BMCC where she could apply for food, counseling and emergency funds. Asknes, a full-time faculty member at BMCC, knows the course trips up many nursing students.

Economics 114

Economics Junior High Advocacy Critical Thinking 114

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

You know when we talk about preparing students for the jobs of the future, it’s critical thinking, it’s self-advocacy. “It’s not like we’re giving students a voice,” he said. They have a voice — right? We’re just sometimes not designed to listen. Well, let’s do that now.”. The post Who is the new U.S.

Education 126

Education High School Leadership Advocacy 126

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Educators and researchers say these efforts are part of a pattern — deliberate or not — of flooding state standards and curriculums with so much content that it becomes impossible for teachers to spend the time needed to go in-depth on topics and for students to engage in critical thinking or questioning.

Social Studies 141

Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 141

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 24, 2023

EL , Design39 , or EPiC ), most of the schools that are featured in deeper learning research, advocacy, and publicity conversations often are at the secondary level (e.g., However, with some exceptions (e.g., The Met or High Tech High ). Grades K through 8 are where all of these movements come together!

Middle School 86

Middle School Leadership Advocacy Critical Thinking 86

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The Board on Academic Freedom in Germany, where scholars critical of Israel face particularly restrictive conditions, urged “universities and research institutions to commit themselves to building and maintaining spaces for discussion and encounter, which welcome plurality and contradiction.”

Anthropology 141

Anthropology Human Rights Humanities Cultures 141

Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

What experiential learning and civic engagement activities promote critical thinking about what it means to live under a democracy? In this Author Meets Critics roundtable, we explore these questions through the lens of Engaging Citizenship.

Political Science 54

Political Science Civics Civic Engagement K-12 54

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2019

“It’s hard to overstate how critical” face-to-face classes are, says Rebecca Silbert, the director of Renewing Communities, which aims to boost education for prisoners. “To To learn the critical-thinking skills that come from being in a classroom is something you just don’t get with correspondence courses.”.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Critical Thinking Education Research 111

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Al-Haq documents violations of the individual and collective rights of Palestinians in the OPT, irrespective of the identity of the perpetrator, and seeks to end such breaches by way of advocacy before national and international mechanisms and by holding the violators accountable.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2017

It was the most ever recorded, according to the advocacy group. Eight transgender people have died this year, and 22 transgender people died last year in the United States because of violence , according to the Human Rights Campaign. Related: Foundations aren’t helping anyone if they’re not serious about social justice.

Social Justice 69

Social Justice Advocacy Human Rights Critical Thinking 69

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Dan Quinn, research director and press secretary of the Texas Freedom Network, an advocacy group that was founded to challenge the influence of the religious right in state politics, calls the standards a “muddled mess when it comes to climate science.” It’s very common to face backlash in the classroom.”.

Teaching 134

Teaching Middle School Humanities High School 134