The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

I’m principal of a high school with a well-known name, only because it’s the site of one of the most devastating school shootings in recent American history: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Last year alone, there were 136 incidents of gunfire on school grounds, with 66 students and educators killed and 158 more injured.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

Despite the claims of those who propose to “disrupt” education with video lessons and a well-intentioned emphasis on STEM, reading remains the backbone of a real education. Related: Can literacy coaches help solve Mississippi’s education woes? Higher Education. Photo: Jackie Mader. We live in the Information Age.

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Civics U

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Immigration and immigration reform have been issues in past American history, and are still issues in American government and politics. This article will not enter that debate, but will review key elements in immigration history and law. Some of these also have a bearing on current issues and decisions. 2001 : U.S.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The best civics teachers also help students learn the skills they need to protect their rights. Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

On Independence Day, we watched a “ bipartisan reading of the Declaration of Independence ” organized by legislator and educator Sean Brennan , representative to Ohio’s House of Representatives for District 14. The post Sean Brennan Leads Bipartisan Reading of the Declaration appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Even though it’s emerged as a national model for 21st-century rural education , it’s still difficult for a district like Piedmont to navigate the growing and expansive ed-tech marketplace. Including American History, World History, Civics, and Geography. Requested Product Attributes.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

The idea of natural law and natural rights appeared in ancient Greek philosophy and was addressed by philosophers in various periods of Western history. They are an intrinsic part of human existence. The important thing about natural rights is that they belong to every individual regardless of identity or status.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Deborah Appleman: I [used to be] a high school English teacher, but at Carleton I'm in the educational studies department. So on the first day of my educational psychology class, I say … my job isn't to make sure that you're never uncomfortable. They might have been in AP African American history.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. Nathan’s past students have created and led several civic and historical preservation projects.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By the next day, Livingston had been reassigned to a special education class. A Path to Education Opens Fortunately, Livingston next enrolled in the local community college, where she discovered a well-developed program for students with hearing disabilities. She had taken no education courses. This was December.

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Doing Social Studies

JULY 23, 2020

Together with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Wichita is sponsoring a virtual webinar entitled “The History of Race Relations in America: the African-American Experience.” The webinar will include a live panel on Wednesday, July 29th, from 1:00-2:30 PM (CST). Take advantage.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She was director of exhibitions at the New York Public Library, and previously a senior content developer and interpretive planner in the New York office of the museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, where she worked on the development of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, along with other international projects.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For American education, one of those alliances started in the early 20th century. That’s when a ludicrously successful retailer-turned-philanthropist, Julius Rosenwald, met the prominent educator Booker T. The pair decided to work together, hoping to improve education for Black students in the segregated South.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The ban was recently reversed in response to widespread criticism, but it is emblematic of an ongoing campaign by state and local officials around the country to dictate how K-12 and college and university educators and students address race, history and social justice.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Many of the documents Schmeichel uses reflect American political theory, probing the interrelated ideas of liberty and equality. Those ideas birthed what I would say is the greatest nation in human history. Our job as educators is to engage students in conversation about what those ideas mean. by educating.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

He sat down with Ellen Tucker to discuss how teachers can use the volume in their government or civics classrooms. Buchanan thought the federal government had no business supporting state educational facilities. <I>Federalism</I>, with John Dinan appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our American History worksheets all can be downloaded as easy-to-use PDF files for easy printing and all include editable Google Docs versions which can be shared online with students through Google Classroom. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This summer we asked five teachers attending the residential program of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) how they convey to students what self-government requires. Citizen Action Toward a More Perfect Union But if there are no certain answers in civic life, students wonder, how can they participate in it?

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This summer we asked five teachers attending the residential program of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) how they convey to students what self-government requires. Citizen Action Toward a More Perfect Union But if there are no certain answers in civic life, students wonder, how can they participate in it?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

These are facts I observed and wrote about in my book “Remembering Freedom Summer,” but in 2021 many states have outlawed teaching such facts in their public schools and in trainings for educational staff. I am a primary resource when it comes to American History and civil rights, particularly in education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Among the more than 30 executive orders issued in Biden’s first week in office, the Executive Order on Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers calls for a plan to do just that. And to carry out the guidance, K-12 schools and other education providers will need a lot of money.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

What role should our education system play in bringing us back together? A group of more than 300 historians and education experts published their answer — a “ Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy.” The Educating for American Democracy project offers no clear guidance on which path is the right one.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Seventy-five different languages are spoken in the schools, and many of the refugees who populate classrooms haven’t been formally educated in years. “I This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. A real plan.”.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Ultimately, the perspective of Bob Moses — a Harvard-educated math teacher and organizer from Harlem (and the man most identified with Freedom Summer’s field operation) won out. Volunteers who came to Mississippi after the initial June wave often assisted the ongoing civic and practical education taking place in “Freedom Schools.”

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The Right hopes to strip the classroom of its potential as a powerful democratic space, where students learn to see themselves not only as individuals, but as part of history, with the capacity to question, challenge, build solidarity, and act to transform society. We offer this #TeachTruth syllabus as a gesture of defiance and education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

educators typically lead textbook selections, although many districts, like Twin Falls, have long included parents in the process. It has spurred tough but positive parent-school discussions in Twin Falls where parents and educators say the conversations have forced them to consider one another’s concerns and perspectives.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our job as educators is to make and model good conscious choices about what we believe, and to make that necessarily fallible belief system as transparent as we can…”. history, I have had a growing unease in recent years about the relevance of my vocation. As a high school teacher of U.S. As a high school teacher of U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

There are a few problems with those debates, says Morgan Polikoff , one of which is that they’re not particularly informed by evidence about what people want for public education. Researchers started by asking participants about the fundamental purposes of public education, and they found some common values right off the bat.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 22, 2023

I served on the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for seven years. Two subjects where I felt confident as a reviewer, in addition to reading, were history and civics. Many states, all Republican-dominated, have censored history teaching. Even more complicated is civics.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Kirk: These schools say they’re aiming to balance the right to protest with the rights of other students looking to get an education or use a public space. 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.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 5, 2023

Tim Slekar, Director of the Educator Preparation Program at Muskingum University in Ohio comments here on the recent report that NAEP scores in history and civics dropped during the pandemic. There were no headlines about the dismal state of teaching and learning American history and civics in 2018.

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Diane Ravitch

JULY 4, 2024

In my school days, we learned only the positive spin on American history. As a college student and a graduate student and an adult, I learned about the dark side of our nation’s history. My mother was an immigrant from Bessarabia who would not tolerate a bad word against the country that took in her family.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. Most Americans were appalled. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence.

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