American History Education Policy K-12 
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. This is dire. Eugene Pringle Jr.
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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The Hechinger Report
MAY 9, 2017
That’s because Parker offers what may be the nation’s most ambitious and comprehensive take on multiage education in middle and high school, breaking grades 7 to 12 into three divisions, with each division blending two grades together. Sometimes she even has a precocious eighth-grader or two and struggling 11th-graders. The Francis W.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 12, 2023
The anti-CRT efforts to restrict how race is taught have clashed with initiatives in several states, including South Dakota, Oklahoma and New Mexico, to teach Native American history — which has often been left out of instruction — more accurately and fully. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”
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.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 28, 2022
Republican lawmakers are currently pushing a pair of bills, SB292 and HB312, that would stop educators from “compelling” students to believe certain theories about race, gender and religion. It’s not the first time Alabama officials, educators, parents and politicians have battled over school textbooks and how to discuss history.
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. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.
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