American History and Elementary School

Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

To make clear that black schoolteachers would serve in equivalent roles to those of white teachers, the Human Relations Committee proposed to school officials that teachers for the entire fourth grade class during the 19661967 school year be drawn from Reid School. 4 [October 1988], 387 444.)) The post Implementing Brown v.

Education

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How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. Ankita Ajith can recall learning about slavery, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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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. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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‘We’re being attacked’: Florida teachers speak out

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Kathleen Gates, a retired teacher who had taught for many years at Brooksville Elementary School in the Hernando County School District, described preparing for that school board meeting as if she were going into battle.

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OPINION: We can’t become a nation of equal learners until we become a nation of readers

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. Others blame schools and teachers for “failing” our kids, but the data suggest otherwise. Many people believe that social media and smartphones have diminished our reading abilities. Mississippi Learning.

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For many of today’s students, the new program’s ideas and approaches to rethinking history and how it is taught are not radical. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out. As he got older, fewer history classes highlighted Asian Americans.

History

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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. The vast majority of these youth graduated from high school, which Duncan describes as “intensely gratifying.”

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Multiage classrooms put child development at the center

The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

A long-time staple of Montessori schools, multiage classrooms spread to progressive elementary schools in the 1990s, although their use was always just one ingredient in a mix intended to provide more personalized instruction. Today, multiage classrooms remain an anomaly in America.

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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

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Kids Don’t Learn What They Aren’t Taught

4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

LOW HISTORY SCORES Since teaching actually seems to make a difference in what students learn, I think we should not be surprised by the latest data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which shows that eighth graders’ proficiency in history is falling from an already low baseline.

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Kami Karr , senior at Redmond High School. Even when we were in elementary school, like with the stock market crash, everyone moved. And then you get into middle school, and then, like, the internet starts becoming a thing. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. I was invited to come speak at school board … my message was primarily a message of gratitude to the school board … even though there was a long line of speakers who wanted to say how terrible a mask mandate was for our children.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. The school district is working to raise money for more computers and technology training, hoping to better prepare its students for an increasingly digitized economy. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms.

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“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. “The juggle is real,” said Maranda Seawood, a student support specialist at Washington Elementary School.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

At the meeting, reading a prepared speech from her cell phone, Saykhamphone shared the cotton gin story and told board members that “for me to truly appreciate American history and my Black and Asian history, standards should not be watered down.” Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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Who picks school curriculum? Idaho law hands more power to parents

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. The first unit was on the desert and we live in north Idaho,” said Whitney Urmann, who taught fourth grade last year at West Bonner County School District’s Priest Lake Elementary School. They are not trying to indoctrinate my child.”

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

ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

For example, 69 percent of Democrats said a book about “same-sex penguin adoption” — an obvious nod to “And Tango Makes Three” — would be appropriate for elementary school while only 24 percent of Republicans agreed. By political party, 55 percent of Democrats and 32 percent of Republicans said it would be appropriate.

Education

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

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

That June, a local parent-teacher DEI group — formed to address student reports of racism and homophobia — installed a bulletin board display in Seylar Elementary School featuring collages representing Juneteenth, the Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, and Pride.

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

On his campaign website, he pledged to cut funding for state universities in Ohio that teach critical race theory and “to force our schools to give an honest, patriotic account of American history.” — C.P.

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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

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

‘We’re being attacked’: Florida teachers speak out

OPINION: We can’t become a nation of equal learners until we become a nation of readers

We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

Multiage classrooms put child development at the center

What’s school without grade levels?

Kids Don’t Learn What They Aren’t Taught

‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

Not all towns are created equal, digitally

“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

Who picks school curriculum? Idaho law hands more power to parents

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

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

What education could look like under Trump and Vance

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