The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students chose their sites from a group of 10 photos, making inferences about how the climate and other factors might affect the geography based on what they saw in the photos, things like sea water, clouds, farm fields and evidence of erosion on rocks.

Junior High 131

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 131

Living Geography

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Take a look and all feedback is welcome.

Advocacy 72

Advocacy Geography 72

Living Geography

DECEMBER 8, 2024

I am very proud to currently have the role of Vice President: Education of the RGS-IBG. I chair the RGS' Education Committee and have a place on the RGS Council for the duration of my term.

Government 52

Government Advocacy Education 52

Living Geography

AUGUST 22, 2024

Today's press-release also mentioned the importance of the forthcoming Curriculum and Assessment Review to respond to concerns around climate change teaching from SOS. and avoid opinions which are out of step with the reality.

Teaching 52

Teaching Advocacy Research Education 52

Living Geography

AUGUST 22, 2024

I was asked to provide some feedback on the GCSE results which came out today on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society. This became a press release from the RGS , which was also responding to a new survey on the way that climate change is taught.

Advocacy 52

Advocacy 52

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.

Social Studies 141

Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 141

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two. He said veteran studies is more about the long-term impacts of war than the logistics of arming and deploying forces.

Psychology 127

Psychology Advocacy Sociology Anthropology 127

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The book was valuable for state geography and basic vocabulary, she said, but using it to teach about the Civil Rights Movement was out of the question. In the Canton Public School District, Howard Hollins teaches sixth-grade world geography and citizenship. Her assigned ninth-grade textbook back then?

K-12 95

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 95

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

They can learn social studies in Spanish; its still history and geography. Texas, Illinois and New York have similar laws, but instead of requiring bilingual programs in response to parent advocacy, they do so based solely on enrollment. Related: A small rural town needed more Spanish-language child care.

Elementary School 117

Elementary School Education K-12 History 117

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The experts raised similar concerns about a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt social studies book, Texas World Geography, which they said gave undue weight to critics who suggest that the current warming is due to the Earth’s natural cycle. What the critics are saying is factually inaccurate,” wrote one reviewer.

Teaching 137

Teaching Middle School Humanities High School 137

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

We’re setting up a system in which students, by the accident of geography, are getting very different kinds of education,” Ross said. “Do Securly is one of the most popular web filters, used in more than 20,000 schools, and its “sexual content” category covers “websites about sexual health and LGBTQ+ advocacy websites.” Is that fair?”

Library 104

Library Advocacy Humanities High School 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti told CNN that school leaders planned to fold climate studies into the current curriculum for civics, geography, math, and physics. Italy will become the first country to make the subject compulsory.

Civics 93

Civics Geography Advocacy Leadership 93

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2025

Woodworth is especially concerned about the cancellation of a widely used dataset called the Common Core of Data, which includes figures on student enrollment by grade, gender, income, race and ethnicity and geography. Many of those data collections were canceled.

Education 139

Education Archiving Government Charter School 139

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities. The mission statement emphasizes inclusiveness, declaring the journal a space for scholars, students, activists, journalists, policy-makers, professionals, practitioners, and non-specialists to connect and share knowledge.

Humanities 145

Humanities Oral History Archiving Pedagogy 145