The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

What subjects people study, what fields they enter, even geography — all matter in determining income, said Anthony Carnevale, director of the center and a co-author of the report. Yusanat Tway, a sociology major at the University of Minnesota, wants to go to law school, then do human rights advocacy. “It

Social Justice 127

Social Justice Advocacy High School Human Rights 127

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Pedagogy Geography Tradition 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities. It’s much stronger than a hypothesis,” wrote another.

Teaching 137

Teaching Middle School Humanities High School 137

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Virtually all school districts buy web filters from companies that sort the internet into categories. Do we really want that to be the case? Is that fair?”

Library 102

Library Advocacy Humanities High School 102