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 American History History 117

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “We Nor are seniors.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

While teachers still provide some instruction, students also get to take classes online, and they have the option of moving through the coursework at a faster pace than traditional school schedules allow. Some District 428 students earn double the number of credits common in a traditional academic year.

Social Studies 82

Social Studies Tradition American History Government 82

The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Yet multiage advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on an arbitrary birthdate range is illogical. Advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on arbitrary birthdate ranges is illogical. Related: High school should be more like preschool.

Elementary School 74

Elementary School Psychology Tradition Professional Development 74

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

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.,

Civics 52

Civics Economics American History Cultures 52

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

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

schools, as teachers attempt to make a traditional, Eurocentric curriculum personally interesting to a diverse student body. In the Colonial School District in New Castle, Delaware, educators are moving away from traditional textbooks and using open educational resources to bring more diverse perspectives into the curriculum.

Cultures 111

Cultures American History Tradition Lesson Plan 111

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. Half American chronicles the lives of African Americans who fought in World War II and in the war against racism in the United States.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

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 “If I were a lecturer, and I see what’s going on in Tallahassee,” he said, “I would say, ‘Maybe I don’t teach that concept.’”

Sociology 130

Sociology Advocacy Anthropology Government 130

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The largest student protests in American history were in May of 1970, following the Cambodian invasion and the tragic shootings of student protesters at Kent State and Jackson State. Rauch is author of the book ‘The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth.’ So there’s still work to be done to get there.

Civics 88

Civics Cultures Political Science Advocacy 88

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Jon: Sarah Igo chairs the American History Department at Vanderbilt and is an intellectual historian. And that has consequences for how much they learn in higher education. Kirk: That’s Josipa Roksa.

Humanities 89

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 89

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

“I learned way more than I ever wanted to learn about textbooks, and way more than I ever wanted to learn about Alabama politics,” said Robert Norrell, a former University of Alabama history professor and textbook publisher. No matter what has happened since then to correct that part of history.”. It was not an intellectual process.

History 102

History K-12 Library Social Studies 102

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Now that he’s back in person, there are certain things he needs to do — coming in, taking off your coat, unzipping and unbuttoning, putting your book bags in your cubbies. It feels like we are living in this weird dystopia.

Oral History 144

Oral History History High School Public School 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We’re ready to have a really difficult year in the books,” said Eric Gordon, who leads the high-poverty Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Fourth graders got to have their traditional field day. The students are adjusting.

Oral History 114

Oral History History High School Public School 114

Teaching American History

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Zvesper’s book explains why the peaceful transfer of power occurred, despite all the partisan acrimony—and worse—of the decade that preceded it. To do this, Zvesper recounts the political history of the 1790s with admirable clarity and concision. It is the best short—perhaps simply the best—account we have of these events.

Government 97

Government American History History Tradition 97

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. The program tailors online books to individual student levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms.

K-12 97

K-12 High School Library Elementary School 97

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Whitaker to discuss his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. You write about how that census was then used in the 1890s by the statistician Frederick Hoffman in his book, Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro. And she publishes a book called Southern Horrors.

Primary Sources 98

Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Quoting his owner in his book, Life of an American Slave , the abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote, “[I]f you teach that n *r (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It’s in this tradition that we must continue to demand that our leaders and our schools embrace these values, too.

American History 126

American History Cultures Social Studies Economics 126

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

And they lived through perhaps the most divisive presidential battle in American history, culminating in rioters storming the Capitol in Washington, D.C. At the stroke of midnight, in keeping with the Ecuadorian New Year tradition , the dad set fire to the effigy of Covid-19. “I Jaden Huynh. Homecoming.

Charter School 123

Charter School High School Social Justice Tradition 123

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 1926, he originated the celebration of Black History Week and is the author of 16 books about African Americans. Last year Vice President Mike Pence commemorated the start of Black History Month (BLM) by acknowledging Abraham Lincoln, a white man, for submitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.

History 90

History Multicultural Education American History Heritage 90

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

Authors of history textbooks writing about the failed insurrection of Jan. The influence of white supremacy on American history has largely been disregarded by past and present writers, especially in accounts of the Civil War. Historians should be equally as motivated to rewrite the wrongs of history books past.

History 145

History American History Social Studies Economics 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history. When slavery is covered in history class, the teaching of black benign servitude too often goes along with ideas that the Ku Klux Klan is a Christian organization exhibiting principles like loving thy neighbor.

History 49

History Multicultural Education American History Heritage 49

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Children’s books put students on a first-name basis with the presidents. As Howard Zinn explained, “Jackson was a land speculator, merchant, slave trader, and the most aggressive enemy of the Indians in early American history.” schools are adorned with posters of presidents and the years they served in office.

American History 98

American History History Tradition Humanities 98

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. She’s really the first person, and she publishes a book called Southern Horrors. Du Bois’s work on Reconstruction.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

While Trump has tried to distance himself from Heritage and its policy proposals, his running mate wrote the forward to an upcoming book from Project 2025’s former leader and many former Trump administration officials were involved in crafting the plan.

K-12 130

K-12 Education Private School Charter School 130