American History Education Policy Public School 
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. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” These included Epperson v.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 21, 2023
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.” My high school, like so many public schools today, offered very few AP classes. It stood firm in defense of the unit.
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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. But public schools don’t look like the public. John King, the first African American to be appointed as the U.S.
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. 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. On the Wednesday following the A.P.
ED Surge
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. Overall, 73 percent of participants said funds should go to public schools.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 28, 2022
And at the end of the 20th century, groups like the Eagle Forum left a growing imprint on education policy in the state. “It It is a continuation or even a recreation of the 90s,” said Wayne Flynt, a retired Alabama history professor. A stack of Alabama history books at the University of Alabama McLure Education Library.
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