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

The Hechinger Report

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. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S. Florida Gov.

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How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

The Hechinger Report

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

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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Kids Don’t Learn What They Aren’t Taught

4QM Teaching

Most of us who work in schools are motivated at least in part by a desire to make the world better, and it’s nice to know that our work actually makes a difference in what young people know and can do. And many elementary schools have basically not been teaching history for some time now.

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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

ED Surge

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

The Hechinger Report

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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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

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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