American History Education Policy Teaching 
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.” There should be nothing partisan about teaching young people the truth. It stood firm in defense of the unit.
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. Teaching students to use civil speech is part of the public schools’ overall mission to teach responsible citizenship.
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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. Teaching is inherently activist.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Research evidence certainly backs a phonics approach when first teaching kids how to read words but students need a lot more than word recognition to become good readers.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 9, 2017
Paula Dallacqua, who is in her first year of teaching a combined ninth- and 10th-grade class at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx, says she tried to create specific moments for mentoring but soon found she was forcing the issue. Curtin and Hill will teach one curriculum to this year’s crop of ninth- and 10th-graders.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2024
Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.
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. course targeted by Gov.
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