American History Education Education Policy 
Teaching American History
JULY 30, 2024
Good teachers respond to the needs of the students they seek to educate. 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.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Teaching is inherently activist.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Only a third of American students are reading proficiently at grade level, according to national benchmark tests. Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Department of Education tracks. Among low-income students it’s worse.
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.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 21, 2023
America has pulled back from the brink of denying science in education. We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. This was controversial for some, but gay people are a part of American history and life, and California is where Harvey Milk did his activism.
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. John King, the first African American to be appointed as the U.S. A certain level of numerical diversity is requisite.
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. Though there are no hard numbers, educators acknowledge the total is miniscule.).
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