The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Murphy teaches business education at a middle school in a neighboring county. 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. Advocates want to move toward funding virtual schools based on performance.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Over the last five school years, it assigned nearly 12,000 suspensions to students who were either late to class or otherwise missed school without an excuse, making it among the most punitive in the state. Related: When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. A student at the N.Y.C.

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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

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

Still, the path was winding and not limited to school. When Ta was in middle school — when the country was embroiled in the 2020 presidential election and reeling from COVID-19 — political questions seemed suddenly relevant for them. School also taught Ta to conduct research, which was helpful.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

On the Friday before spring break at Meigs Middle School, special education teacher Matt Coe was busy preparing new lessons for his students now that schools were set to close due to the coronavirus crisis. Related: Should schools teach anyone who can get online — or no one at all?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Although emotionally taxing, these instances of discrimination do not surprise the Palestinian American teachers in my network, because many of them know what it is like to grow up marginalized in American schools. My advocacy for Palestine is professional suicide,” Sawsan Jaber said.

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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. My hope is to center the voices of the indigenous, of women, of Black people,” Talbott says.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Trevion Williams (left) and Jashun Griffith (right), both 13, students at Crystal Springs Middle School in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, chat at the Haley Farm lake gazebo. They get a deeper understanding of advocacy,” she said. Photo: Avis Thomas-Lester for The Hechinger Report. CLINTON, Tenn. Mississippi State Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

I teach history and social studies at New York University. He’s the president of Heterodox Academy, a nonpartisan advocacy group of academics working to counteract what it sees as a lack of viewpoint diversity on college campuses, especially when it comes to political diversity. Robert Cohen: My name is Robert Cohen.

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Civics Cultures Political Science Advocacy 103

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

DECEMBER 9, 2024

While dual-language programs often stop after elementary school, the bilingual advantage stretches through students K-12 years and into their working lives. Dual-language students have been found to score higher than their peers on both math and English language arts exams by middle school. And Madera Unified gives her hope.

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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. Credit: Courtesy of Beatriz López.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Maria, 13, left rear, is a student at Morton Middle School. Matias’s daughter Maria, a student at Morton Middle School, grew up in Mississippi and speaks English with a southern drawl. “I The Tupelo School District, in the northwest corner of the state, has found the approach to be effective. Photo: Ben Stocking.

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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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Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

Conditions havent improved for social studies teachers since. One of Trumps first executive orders claimed schools use radical indoctrination to imprint anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies on children. The AHAs report came out at the end of 2024, before President Donald Trump took office.

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