The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Calls for book banning and censorship have become common. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. The states’ actions provide a smoke screen for efforts to limit discussion of race and racism and disenfranchise the Black community. Who suffers the most? The students.

Civic Engagement 129

Civic Engagement Education Civics K-12 129

Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. Professor Dunn’s first book, Complex Justice (2008), examines the 1995 case of Missouri v.

Education 98

Education Library American History Education Policy 98

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My wife and I chose Aniefuna because in studying Black history, we learned that our land was never lost.

History 105

History Teaching Sociology Oral History 105

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

My journey as an immigrant from a small town in Africa’s smallest mainland country, The Gambia, to the biggest city in the United States, with its many diverse cultures, has given me a unique perspective. He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history.

High School 126

High School Cultures American History History 126

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Some parents are really worried about Covid and their child getting sick, but one of the main reasons is about culture. We want them to know a lot about their culture.”. The group connects Muslim home-schoolers in Southern California by hosting events and providing resources, such as books and curriculum. You’re stronger minded.

Lesson Plan 142

Lesson Plan Private School Cultures Public School 142

Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Sentinel-News: Local author explores Kentucky’s surroundings in new book While countless books have been written about the historic Fort Knox, Shelbyville native Ronald R. The story can be found in the back of “Surrounding Fort Knox” and is also sold as a standalone book. Van Stockum Jr.

History 52

History Anthropology Cultures Psychology 52

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

Inclusive Curriculum 105

Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

To help Native communities heal from that trauma, the report recommends an explicit federal policy of cultural revitalization, one that supports the work of Indigenous peoples and tribes to preserve and strengthen their languages and cultures. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

Teaching 144

Teaching K-12 Heritage Government 144

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2021

I grew up in an area with a large Asian American population, including 25 percent of the students in my high school. And yet, I have never had the opportunity to discuss anti-Asian racism in the classroom, learn about Asian American history or engage with educators who understand my experiences.

High School 119

High School American History Social Studies Leadership 119

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It also plans to analyze lesson plans created by the 1619 Project , which grew out of a series of New York Times stories that reframe American history around slavery and its consequences. who started kindergarten in 2011. Despite these issues, the research is worth watching. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

Social Studies 145

Social Studies Civics Geography Elementary School 145

ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

K-12 117

K-12 Pedagogy High School American History 117

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I’ll never forget when my 5th-grade teacher had our class reenact a scene from the book "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry". Literary groups like the Reading Room Society for Men of Colour and Wide Awake Society differed from the slavery, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights movement eras that I attributed to representing all of African American history.

History 108

History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 108

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

behind Texas with the most book bans, with 21 districts banning some 566 titles, most containing themes or characters related to the LGBTQ community and race. Books from a pilot African American studies course now banned in Florida by Gov. Florida, meanwhile, ranks second in the U.S. Ron DeSantis.

K-12 129

K-12 History American History Psychology 129

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For many of today’s students, the new program’s ideas and approaches to rethinking history and how it is taught are not radical. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out. Raylan Li, 15, is excited to become a co-president of the Asian Culture Club this fall.

History 109

History Heritage K-12 American History 109

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Sociologist Ann Swidler calls these strategies “ cultural repertoires.” And even while many parents aspire to have their children go to college, our cultural repertoires for attaining that goal are different. Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools.

Education 20

Education Sociology Economics Tutoring 20

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. million book images from the Internet Archive. . And so on… .

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Almost ten years ago, I started off teaching and I truly believed that I didn’t need to teach Black History Month or any other cultural month (Hispanic Heritage, Native American History Month, etc.) Frustrated, I asked myself, “how is this celebrating the richness of historically oppressed peoples and cultures?”

Heritage 52

Heritage American History Pedagogy History 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. School District.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. The Oregon Tribal Student Grant covers tuition, housing and books at public institutions and some private universities for undergraduate and graduate students belonging to Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes.

Government 97

Government Cultures History Heritage 97

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

will discuss his book Who Hears Here?: A Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guthrie P. A widely-published writer, he’s the author, co-author, or editor of four music history books and many essays and articles. On Black Music, Pasts and Present (2022) is his latest book.

History 52

History Museum American History Leadership 52

Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

THE DRIVE FOR PROGRESS In American history early colonists’ and settlers’ desire and drive for progress was necessitated by the need to organize ways to survive, and fed by the opportunity to use the new territory that they took and occupied. Bodley, in his book Victims of Progress, 2 nd Ed., Lynn Huenemann lhuenemann@q.com

Civics 52

Civics Economics American History Cultures 52

ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

Museum 40

Museum American History History Library 40

Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 26, 2024

A link to the book and its Table of Contents is found here.) I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers. Links to the previously published chapters will be provided at the end of each blog. Look for them on each Saturday morning! (A

History 40

History Museum American History Research 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The vast majority of Saridis’s students are Latino, and at the Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston, a dual-language high school in Boston Public Schools, connecting the curriculum to their culture is a top priority. Tapping into students’ cultures in the curriculum fits, logically, into efforts to personalize learning.

Cultures 111

Cultures American History Tradition Lesson Plan 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And in one IB history class, she said a teacher had students pick cotton seeds off cotton plants to demonstrate the efficiency of the cotton gin, in an attempt to include multiple perspectives in his class. That conclusion is a marked contrast to Florida’s recently approved and controversial African-American history standards.

History 98

History American History Ancestry Pedagogy 98

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

But it was a “watershed moment,” according to a recent book published about the schools, “ A Better Life for Their Children ,” for another reason, too: Those who attended the schools would later actively participate in the Civil Rights Movement, overturning segregation as an official American policy. Can I introduce the characters?

Civics 99

Civics Education American History History 99

ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine, authors of the 2019 book “ In Search of Deeper Learning ”, define deeper learning as “the understanding of not just the surface features of a subject or discipline, but the underlying structures or ideas.” The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library.

Education 128

Education Library History American History 128

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Related: Culture wars on campus start to affect students’ choices for college Certainly, it’s easy to spot worry on campuses. Marissa Bellenger, one of Cassanello’s graduate students, was warned by a visiting professor teaching a lecture course on American history for which she is a teaching assistant. “He

Sociology 130

Sociology Advocacy Government Anthropology 130

Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

A link to the book and its Table of Contents is found here.) After the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862, Morgan and his Second Kentucky Cavalry Regiment of 1,800 horsemen escaped Kentucky by riding through the region described in this book. I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers.

History 52

History American History Cultures 52

Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

We also do poetry and book excerpts. Whereas I worked for many decades now with Native American communities in the U.S. So, if I was going to make, develop an op-ed around Native American history and culture I’ve written books, received grants and so on, I’m well prepared to make that argument.

Anthropology 118

Anthropology Archaeology Artifacts Heritage 118

Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

A link to the book and its Table of Contents is found here.) I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers. Links to the previously published chapters will be provided at the end of each blog. Look for them on each Saturday morning! (A War is often glorified for the courage and sacrifice of combatants.

History 52

History American History Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

But the consensus has also promoted individual freedom, political democracy, world peace and cultural tolerance, now growing into acceptance. Back in the District of Columbia, African-American history gained two sites. Usually, that consensus goes unnoticed, or is told in negative terms, as a story of oppressors.

Museum 52

Museum World Religions American History History 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Orientation video: Though it may not seem like it at first, making an effort to talk and listen to those who you disagree with can have a lasting impact on your campus culture. Rauch is author of the book ‘The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth.’ Jon: This year, colleges are trying to get ahead of this.

Civics 88

Civics Cultures Political Science Advocacy 88

Strange Maps

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The state just doesn’t have anything approaching the historical or cultural resonance of California, Texas, or even Kansas or Oklahoma. For most of American history, Wyoming was a not a destination in itself, but just so much more ground to cover on the long trek to more promising lands further west.

Government 52

Government American History Cultures History 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Although, I am not convinced a single book, monument or artifact can reform the state’s intellectual and emotional predisposition to deny its reign of white supremacy, the Civil Rights Museum unearths and displays the truth, in ways the state’s public school classrooms and outdated textbooks have not.

Museum 78

Museum Artifacts History Public School 78

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Epstein gives me a sampling of some of the history department’s offerings, like ‘Birth of the Avant-Garde: Modern Poetry and Culture in France and Russia, 1870 to 1930.’ Kirk: That’s Josipa Roksa.

Humanities 89

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 89

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. who are not white. and in its schools. Jung Kim, Ph.D., and Betina Hsieh, Ph.D.,

Heritage 102

Heritage Education K-12 American History 102