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OPINION: You can’t teach psychology without covering gender and sexuality, and you can’t teach history without covering racism

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Florida’s state board of education then accused the College Board of “playing games with Florida students.” It stood firm in defense of the unit.

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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R. Teachers afraid of this may steer an unnecessarily wide path around painful history that needs to be discussed.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Only a third of American students are reading proficiently at grade level, according to national benchmark tests. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B.

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Multiage classrooms put child development at the center

The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. — It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school.

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Consumers get more information about a purchase they once made on trust: college

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

There is a consumer protection strand of American history, and now it’s higher education’s turn,” said Daniel Greenstein, director of education and postsecondary success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been pressing for better information to be made available to students and their families.

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Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

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.’”

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

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.

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With the nation in turmoil, Ed Secretary King’s quest to diversify schools is the right pursuit

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Negative quality of life outcomes and racial strife evidence our failure to learn how to live together, which compromise our national security making diversity a federal education policy issue. Secretary of Education, is thankful for attending diverse schools and attributes those schools to his advancements.

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States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

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CRT debate repeats past battles about state history textbooks

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. Robert Norrell, a former University of Alabama history professor and textbook publisher.

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If black lives matter, so do historically black colleges and universities

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

People who know American history, specifically black history, don’t ask if we need HBCUs. But Rising’s main contribution to history is how it properly situates the role that black colleges played in the civil rights movement. Grand Valley State University professor in 2013 in the academic e-journal Education Policy.

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Where Americans Are — and Aren’t — Politically Divided on Education

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APRIL 26, 2024

“I think that there is a broad and sensible middle-of-the-country who is interested in common sense, popular education policy opinions, [and] that is sometimes not well-represented by two extremes,” Polikoff says.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Before officially launching Vermilion in March, Adams had worked for his alma mater, Hillsdale — a private Christian college in Michigan dedicated to “classical” education, hard-right political advocacy, and spreading its education model nationwide. Then there was the curriculum. Chaikin did not respond to a request for comment.)

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What’s the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some Scenarios

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Coupled with a steady state of 3 percent homeschooling, for the first time in American history, a majority of school-aged children are not enrolled in traditional public schools. More than three-quarters of American children and youth are enrolled in traditional public schools.

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Trump plan would base student loans on employability

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

But while a history major might have trouble finding a job right out of school, these advocates say, his or her degree may end up paying off years later. Part of the purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn to think about the world,” Weiss said, calling the Trump employment-based financial aid proposal “incredibly short-sighted.”

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Ariel Gilreath School choice Expanding school choice through private-school vouchers has been a key part of Trump’s education policy, but he had little success in getting his most ambitious efforts passed by Congress. One early accomplishment came via the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Nirvi Shah Teaching about U.S.

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OPINION: You can’t teach psychology without covering gender and sexuality, and you can’t teach history without covering racism

Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

Multiage classrooms put child development at the center

Consumers get more information about a purchase they once made on trust: college

Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

With the nation in turmoil, Ed Secretary King’s quest to diversify schools is the right pursuit

States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

CRT debate repeats past battles about state history textbooks

If black lives matter, so do historically black colleges and universities

Where Americans Are — and Aren’t — Politically Divided on Education

One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

What’s the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some Scenarios

Trump plan would base student loans on employability

What education could look like under Trump and Vance

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