The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts.

High School 111

High School Tradition Cultures Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

They were among 450 students, teachers, preachers, child advocates and social justice activists from across the country who gathered for the Children’s Defense Fund’s 23rd Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry. They get a deeper understanding of advocacy,” she said. Mississippi State Sen.

History 84

History Teaching Social Justice Advocacy 84

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

We’ve run into challenges where legislators are reluctant to pass an unfunded mandate,” said Nicole Gibson, the senior director for state policy and grassroots advocacy at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He said he usually doesn’t handle that many evaluations over the course of an entire school year.

Education 134

Education K-12 High School Advocacy 134

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

K-12 97

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 97

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948. ” While this piece was written primarily for adult education, an adaptation for middle and high school teachers is included at the end of the document.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Not only did Caleb never return to his local school, but he learned little throughout his elementary, middle and high school years — which included hundreds of hours struggling through computer lessons in math, science and social studies. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office.

Education 90

Education K-12 Advocacy Elementary School 90

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. The agencys poor management of schools, meanwhile, had been well documented , and in 2006, an internal shakeup resulted in the creation of the BIE. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S.

Education 118

Education Elementary School Government K-12 118