Advocacy Leadership Social Studies 
Social Studies Success
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Secondary Social Studies Interventionist As any good teacher does, I often eavesdrop. During my fourteen years of eavesdropping, I’ve heard social studies teachers lament that they are “not reading teachers”. Why is background knowledge important in social studies? By Kydra Hubbard, Ed.
Dangerously Irrelevant
AUGUST 4, 2015
All sports, all clubs, all leadership opportunities… Why are you angry? Let’s cut Social Studies. State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? We can do better! Let’s cut extracurriculars while we’re at it. Have you already forgotten our quest to be ‘world class?’
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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. Lusher enrolls students in kindergarten through 12th grade across its two buildings.
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. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.
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. You’re losing a connection with those students,” she said. “We They expect to add five more next year.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 10, 2017
By 2021, schools must offer diplomas based students reaching proficiency in the four core academic subject areas: English, math, science and social studies. And still other schools have made changes only to have them reversed when leadership or other circumstances change. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.
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