The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes.

Teaching 145

Teaching Social Justice Elementary School American History 145

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy" by Gholnescar Muhammad called for teachers to redesign their learning plans by looking to the literary practices of people I’d never heard of. We must ensure that their portrayals accurately celebrate their past and present influence.

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History Pedagogy Tutoring American History 103

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — not only to foster more understanding and tolerance, but also to show the beauty and complexity of cultures often neglected.

American History 88

American History History Teaching Primary Sources 88

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

It’s time we became a nation of readers so that more than 13 percent of us can access the numerous benefits that thousands of years of culture have entrusted to written words.”. But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. We live in the Information Age.

Civics 93

Civics American History Elementary School Humanities 93

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. and in its schools. who are not white. Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D.,

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Heritage Education K-12 American History 100

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

It could also help resolve the internal conflicts that many Asian Americans experience when dealing with their sense of identity. New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum.

History 90

History Heritage K-12 American History 90

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Here are some voices from our third round of interviews, in which we asked people involved with their local public schools for their reflections on how the past year had shaped them, and their predictions for the next school year, among other topics. school district is investing heavily in early literacy.

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Oral History History High School Public School 89

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school. I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

American History 143

American History History K-12 Cultures 143

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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Indeed, the local Civic Learning Plans its supporters propose would just further fragment the history our students learn. And that in time will weaken any hope of having a shared cultural understanding of what it means to be American. Is American history education the problem? citizenship exam.

American History 81

American History History Teaching Civics 81

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history. On the Wednesday following the A.P.

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Perhaps that’s why some observers have connected Feiler’s exhibition about the past to the racial-educational gap of today , particularly noting the contemporary lack of adequate resources for public schools and the “school-to-prison pipeline.” Ninety percent of African Americans live in the South.

Civics 72

Civics Education American History History 72

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

President Donald Trump recently announced his intention to create a 1776 Commission, charged with restoring patriotic, “pro-America” education to public schools. And to do that, we must build an education system that embraces Black history and cultures for the sake of all our children. Cultural pride is powerful.

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Museum American History Education History 126

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I grew up and attended schools in the South in an area known as the Black Belt , a name given to the region because of its large Black population and black soil. I never took a course in African American history during that time, the late 1980s and early 90s, despite being enveloped in Blackness in my neighborhoods, churches and schools.

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Heritage Cultures K-12 American History 96

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.

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History American History Ancestry Pedagogy 72

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

“It is a continuation or even a recreation of the 90s,” said Wayne Flynt, a retired Alabama history professor. People who in that time wanted to have books make a ton of money for them as public school adoptions had to understand: That was not an educational process. Many are no longer used in Alabama schools.

History 90

History K-12 Library Social Studies 90

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

We look forward to bringing this rich and inspiring exploration of African-American history and culture to students across the country,” the College Board said in a statement to CNN. Here we go again?

K-12 114

K-12 History American History Psychology 114

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

At the state level, funds that were targeted for local education agencies are diverted to vouchers for individual children, a sharp loss in the funding that states historically have provided to school districts. Money is siphoned from traditional public schools and towards a diverse array of unregulated for-profit and private providers.

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Charter School Private School Tradition Public School 111

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.

Teaching 128

Teaching Civics American History Controversial Topics 128

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” No one even knows what to do about this mess, because they’re just wholly taking control of a public education system.”

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Education Policy Education Advocacy History 135

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

public schools that would directly challenge a long-standing Supreme Court decision requiring states to provide a free education to all students regardless of their immigration status. Vance, meanwhile, made education culture war issues central to his 2022 run for Senate.

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K-12 Education Private School Charter School 92

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, worked for roughly two decades in public schools, as a geography teacher and football coach. He has championed investments in public education: For example, in March 2023, he signed a bill to make school meals free to all students in public schools. Harris, a former U.S.

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K-12 Education History Public School 110

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I am very excited to welcome historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School and author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Formally, he was the director of a place that we hold very dear, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Thanks, T.

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Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52