The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Brian Stack is the principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, N.H. But the state line does make a difference in the schools. “At Stack is the principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New Hampshire. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The numbers were stark: The online charter students lost the equivalent of 72 days of learning in reading and 180 days of learning in math, based on a 180-day school year. In most states, schools are funded based on how many students they enroll, regardless of whether those students succeed in school or even finish the academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. Talbott experienced microaggressions at times. “The

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Meadowbrook High School students entering the school’s Colt College center, where they can take tuition-free college courses without leaving the campus. Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The consequences can extend beyond high school, researchers have found , with suspensions linked to lower college enrollment rates and increased involvement with the criminal justice system. Dysart High School students describe routine suspensions for getting to school late.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states. Since 2017, Summit has revised its middle and high school curriculum and teachers routinely say it’s high-quality. But at Rhodes, Christie doesn’t hear complaints like that. It’s a mindset shift.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. This past fall, Ragan Toppan, 16, walked out of her Algebra II class at Deering High School to protest her school’s recent switch to standards-based grading.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Du Bois’ advocacy extended across the world through many Pan-African conferences and an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the suffering of Black Americans, according to the NAACP. Learn how Studies Weekly Social Studies can help teach students about history’s humanitarians.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. The Nokomis Regional High School ninth grader said she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Senior Remi Savard is part of the last class at Montpelier High School that experienced the system before the school’s switch to a proficiency-based model. Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. BRUNSWICK, Maine — Kate Lord didn’t have a plan when she graduated from Brunswick High School in 2014. Experts and advocates say that high schools can do more to help improve the situation, though.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., Essentially, teacher candidates learned that service-learning with a cultural center can balance inquiry with advocacy as a means to learn civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In a survey conducted by Educators for Excellence, a teacher-led advocacy group, gun violence ranked as teachers’ No. 1 school safety concern. High school teacher Harley Brook has pondered using the books on this shelf as weapons in the case of an active shooter scenario. Photo courtesy Harley Brook.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Decatur High School staff member Jennifer Young said at the #TeachTruth, Jennifer Young. What we would love for you to do is cover the sidewalk with whatever you learned today, because that’s not being taught in your school and it can be taught in the Square. They also made the link to mass incarceration. Photo by Dean Hesse.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

Courtney Cochran, a high school principal, introduces her co-hosts for Arkansas PBS’s new educational programming: teachers Meghan Ables and Joel Lookadoo. Cochran, now a high school principal, is able to film her segments for grades three to five in her school’s now-empty art room. “We

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Sawsan Jaber, the founder of Education Unfiltered Consulting and a high school English teacher in Illinois, said she was once called a terrorist by another teacher and labeled as an antisemite by colleagues simply for being Palestinian. My advocacy for Palestine is professional suicide,” Sawsan Jaber said. Do you mean Israel?”

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

For example, San Diego high school teacher Don Dumas held an event last year with his students over Memorial Day weekend. Decatur High School staff member Jennifer Young said at the #TeachTruth event, Jennifer Young. SELECT A SITE, DATE, AND TIME Belton, Texas. Photo by Richard Beaule. Photo by Dean Hesse.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Dual-language students have been found to score higher than their peers on both math and English language arts exams by middle school. They also get higher scores on the ACT in high school, setting them up to be more competitive in college admissions. They can learn social studies in Spanish; its still history and geography.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County in Western Kentucky, was elected as a student board member for the local board of education last May. One idea that’s taken root is forcing students to take a civics test as a requirement for high school graduation. The victory was bittersweet.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2017, Thorne’s last year as a high school teacher, he was one of only about 1,436 Black male teachers in South Carolina, or less than 3 percent of the total teacher workforce, according to the state’s department of education. “Preston Thorne was a unique piece of what made our school culture so great,” she said.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

When she took a break from class at Cody High School to testify to the Wyoming State Legislature, via Zoom, in favor of a bill that would have mandated suicide prevention education in schools, she was prepared for an easy win. From my freshman year till my senior year of high school I lost 13 friends to suicide,” Rep.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Rather, particularly at the high school level, students in the GNETS Program often receive only computer-based instruction.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

When Hispanic students first began attending schools in Mississippi, many school districts refused to enroll them if they didn’t have immigration papers, said Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, or MIRA, a nonprofit advocacy group. He didn’t take the ELL job for the $19,000 salary. “I

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The trio wept as they recalled Siyujas move as a teenager to a private boarding school 150 miles away in Sedona, Arizona, which shed chosen to attend because the federal agency that runs Havasupai Elementary, the only school in her village, provides no options for high school.

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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.

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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.

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