The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Tanji Reed Marshall, a former teacher and current researcher at The Education Trust, an education research and advocacy organization, recently studied how frequently teachers offer students choices in the classroom. In math, only 3 percent of assignments did the same, according to the study.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I By 2021, schools must offer diplomas based students reaching proficiency in the four core academic subject areas: English, math, science and social studies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies. Learn a simple advocacy technique that gets members of the community involved in a relevant legislative/policymaking process. Please share your lesson plans and/or letters. Grades: 12th (though it’s certainly relevant for 9th through 11th grades).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“In rural areas there’s often not the tax base you find in an urban or suburban school to fund additional programs,” said Lavina Grandon, co-founder and board president of Rural Community Alliance, a nonprofit school advocacy organization. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. It’s a new innovation lab that combines two different disciplines — social studies and math.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

He loved math, social studies and working on a computer. Kate worked with one local group to develop a career plan and spent three weeks in Minnesota at a life skills program which her parents hoped would introduce her to the idea of being away from home and improve her self-advocacy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts. At the end of the following year, it awarded organizations in Portland and Sanford nearly $9 million to implement their plans.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Jefferson was struck by how much of an impact this could have on K-12 schools in Kentucky. Later on, Ta opened an email from their school that mentioned the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a state-level group that was started in 2012 to bring students into the advocacy process. The amendment is up for a vote this election.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

To gain more insight into our experience, I reached out to my network of Palestinian American K-12 educators. My advocacy for Palestine is professional suicide,” Sawsan Jaber said. While every school is different, Palestinian teachers are often vilified, diminished or made unwelcome.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

The result is five hours of weekday programming for pre-K to eighth grade students, available to any household with a TV, hosted by a roster of Arkansas educators, all former state teachers of the year. Credit: Photo courtesy Arkansas PBS. We are a small rural school with only 270 students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

The board is currently reviewing the state’s K-12 health standards, which mention suicide prevention parenthetically. 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.

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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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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

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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. Nina Leuzzi has taught pre-K in Boston, Massachusetts, for 10 years. She currently teaches K-5 special education at an elementary school in Reseda, California. 1 school safety concern. This really could happen.”.

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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. In contrast, James K. A textbook problem.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education. While dual-language programs often stop after elementary school, the bilingual advantage stretches through students K-12 years and into their working lives. Related: Widen your perspective.

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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

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. I have to struggle for all the resources I get,” he said.

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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. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Teaching Resources Lessons and Articles About K–12 Lessons and teaching stories on Palestine and Israel from Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project website. A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

Conditions havent improved for social studies teachers since. Painting approaches to history in stark black and white can shut down debate and keep social studies teachers from achieving what 94 percent of them report is the most important part of their job: preparing students for meaningful civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. She graduated valedictorian of her class. Nonexistent.

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