ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Literary groups like the Reading Room Society for Men of Colour and Wide Awake Society differed from the slavery, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights movement eras that I attributed to representing all of African American history. The absence of elephants from middle and high school curricula limits intellectual representation for students.

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JUNE 9, 2020

It probably means you’re not regularly talking with them about current events and they’re not getting a good education about American history in school. Growing up in New Orleans, we taught him the Mardi Gras tradition of extending his arms as the floats go by and shouting, “Throw me something, mister!”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

Senior Hernan Hernandez, 17 (left), and junior Ray Garcia, 15 (right), hope to design a new skateboarding course at Vista High School. It’s part of a big shift to gear the school more toward students’ interests. Vista High School and Barela leapt at the opportunity. Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Brown is one of a growing number of young people in Illinois who have earned a high school diploma from School District 428, run by the state’s department of juvenile justice. Jones-Redmond advocates a no-computer policy on Wednesdays, when traditional teaching takes center stage and students take a break from their online work.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. After graduating high school, she began working at a child care center for teen mothers.

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JUNE 15, 2022

Mask mandates in place at the beginning of the school year faced some resistance and were lifted in the spring. Ben Lawson , band and choir director at Redmond High School. Ben Wilson and Kami Karr stand outside of Redmond High School, in Oregon. Kami Karr , senior at Redmond High School.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. But as of October, more than 10,000 students from kindergarten through sixth grade had chosen to remain in virtual school , the most of any district in the state or the Washington, D.C. metro area.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Jaden Huynh, then 16 and a sophomore at Arvada West High School in a suburb northwest of Denver, circled the dinner table plating goi — a Vietnamese salad — and spring rolls for her family’s Easter dinner and silently counted all the empty seats for cousins and extended relatives. By mid-April, the world had changed. This is it.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

High school history teacher Amanda Sandoval was one of hundreds of educators who received copies of Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad from the author Matthew Delmont and the Zinn Education Project.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In a lone building flanked by farmland, the Northern Cass School District is heading into year two of a three-year journey to abolish grade levels. By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

The anti-CRT efforts to restrict how race is taught have clashed with initiatives in several states, including South Dakota, Oklahoma and New Mexico, to teach Native American history — which has often been left out of instruction — more accurately and fully. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

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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. It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school. Photo: Stuart Miller.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. Who gets to construct truth?

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MAY 4, 2017

Last August, despite some opposition, Bowling Green opened a new high school dedicated solely to immigrants and refugees, adjacent to Warren Central High School in the poorer section of town. Many of the student arrivals, especially the older ones, struggled in the local high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2020

school counselors are white. (In If educators care about black student success beyond high school, we ought to expose black students to HBCUs. School counselors must be aware of the existence of HBCUs, and they should introduce HBCUs to black students and other students of color. Census data show that 70 percent of U.S.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Jeffrey Jackson, a professor in the sociology department at Ole Miss, is a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Context, which spearheaded the creation of the plaques. MOST targets high school seniors who are members of underrepresented minorities and brings them to campus for three days.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Then we ran into an issue with the high school girls basketball team all quarantined. We’re still keeping kids in school. We’re a small, rural school. And boys basketball.

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JANUARY 21, 2017

Two students share a computer as they prepare for their geometry final at Northridge High School, in Greeley, Colo. — Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. GREELEY, Colo. Some of the computers are missing keys.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. In 1879 the Court stood by the centuries-old understanding of marriage , ruling that religious freedom was bounded by basic legal traditions embodied in the common law.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

As a high school teacher of U.S. history, I have had a growing unease in recent years about the relevance of my vocation. Now more than ever, we need to identify and strengthen repositories of values and traditions that can serve as the basis of their extension, and those who embody them. This seems hard to do.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Last spring, students at Winter Park High School organized to fight back , leading a school wide walkout and protesting the Parental Rights in Education Act that bans instruction on gay, lesbian or gender identity topics from kindergarten through third grade. There’s nothing objectional.

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MARCH 28, 2022

“Alabama Journey,” his first full-color book, published in 1998, was a big hit, and was eventually adopted by nearly half of Alabama school systems. The Forum did hold presentations at the time about textbooks and preserving a Christian, Western view of American history. Then, he said, he felt targeted by the Eagle Forum.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Some students just aren’t going to college straight out of high school. A 2023 report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences concluded humanities majors’ incomes are 40 percent higher than those with a high school degree. And I didn’t take a lot of that in high school.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s in this tradition that we must continue to demand that our leaders and our schools embrace these values, too. And this year, you must do this with schools closed, amid a terrifying pandemic and an economic crisis the likes of which we haven’t seen in a century.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

High school students hold a banner while marching to the South Boulder Recreation Center to vote and turn in election ballots in early voting in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday October 25, 2018. Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops. Wells-Barnett, is increasingly becoming a household name and being taught more commonly in high school, especially in Chicago, where I’m from. Muhammad: Yeah. So I’m hoping that Ida B.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

Authors of history textbooks writing about the failed insurrection of Jan. The influence of white supremacy on American history has largely been disregarded by past and present writers, especially in accounts of the Civil War. 6, 2021 must not ignore the event’s white supremacist underpinnings.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

He said increasing options for students after high school would prepare them for jobs in a “knowledge economy” and give them more choices beyond pursuing a minimum-wage service sector job or going to a four-year college. There’s no options in between and consequently people don’t see much opportunity,” Vance said.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I got the chance to connect with high school students in my breakout room and it was a refreshing reminder that the Black Freedom Struggle is not only being taught despite truth-teaching being criminalized, but also it is being learned and put into practice! Don’t miss upcoming sessions — register now. Muhammad: Yeah.

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