All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin. Did they miss me that day, definitely not. As Alinsky (1971) notes in Rules for Radicals , “throughout history silences has been regarded as assent – in this case assent to the system” (x). Are they scholar-activists?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Those connections start with one-on-one mentoring, in which teachers meet with students weekly to discuss short-term goals, such as completing a certain number of units in a history course, and long-term goals that stretch into college and career. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts. “My

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 84

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Experts — and history — suggest that school districts need much more than what federal and state governments have provided so far. Patrick Miller is the superintendent of Greene County Schools, a district in North Carolina that he describes as “poor and rural by every definition.” Credit: Facebook/Patrick Miller.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

The focus inspired local parent-teacher groups — at the time, segregated by race — to drive many reforms in public schools, including the additions of kindergarten, playgrounds, school lunches and water fountains, according to Christine Woyshner, a professor at Temple University who has researched the history of volunteer groups in education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

I teach history and social studies at New York University. The largest student protests in American history were in May of 1970, following the Cambodian invasion and the tragic shootings of student protesters at Kent State and Jackson State. If you’re a student or a parent, it can be confusing. I’m a historian.

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Civics Cultures Political Science Advocacy 87

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

Rodrigues had been traveling the country for weeks, meeting with parent advocacy groups in city after city, and working with them to get their grievances heard and addressed by local school boards. But beyond this day-to-day advocacy, critics see an organization with larger aims of discrediting teachers unions and public education.

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Advocacy Charter School Political Science K-12 125

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

The case has really been a key part of our history and has come to represent, I think it’s fair to say, part of our brand,” said McNulty. If you talk to some faculty they would definitely say there is a price to be paid for independence,” said McNulty. They also make some other sacrifices. “If

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Government Human Rights K-12 Advocacy 55

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2025

I think a chill wind is blowing, and public education as we know it is in extreme jeopardy of becoming religious education and ceasing to exist, said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an advocacy organization that has filed an amicus brief in the St. Isidore case. Its about money and power.

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Public School Charter School K-12 Advocacy 139

ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us She went on to earn her bachelor’s degree in history and then her master’s degree in curriculum and instruction with a focus on English language arts. Indeed, it seems like an essential part of their advocacy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Because we had that history, because we knew what a well-functioning higher education system could do, we aspire to that again.”. We have a long history of not catering to these populations,” Mora said. I definitely want to be out of here in four years,” Soberano said. Related: Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

history, precipitating the global financial crisis. Brody Scully] Because I definitely learn where theres probably a smaller group of people, so I’m looking for that. Brody Scully] I would say yeah, definitely, and, like, time intensive. So this is definitely a longer trend that we’re seeing.

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Archiving Tradition High School History 64

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Parents described how their children couldnt tell the difference between North and South America and, despite BIE regulations requiring Native culture in all curriculum areas, the students never had a class in Havasupai culture, history or language.

Education 104

Education Elementary School Government K-12 104

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

“It is creating so much more work and chaos,” said Emma Grasso Levine, the Title IX policy and senior program manager at the advocacy group Know Your IX. At the center of the court challenges is that the Biden administration’s new rules, issued in April, expand the definition of “sex” to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook.

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Humanities Oral History Archiving Pedagogy 145