American History Psychology Public School 
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 21, 2023
We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. AP Psychology is a popular course, and rigorous AP classes help prepare students for college and demonstrate their skills for college admissions. The study of psychology is particularly important in this regard because it is a field led by women.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.
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Political Science Now
OCTOBER 1, 2024
This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 23, 2020
President Donald Trump recently announced his intention to create a 1776 Commission, charged with restoring patriotic, “pro-America” education to public schools. Daniel Hale Williams , the first doctor to perform open-heart surgery and a Black man who graduated from medical school just 18 years after the abolition of slavery.
Zinn Education Project
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
The tsunami of laws and Executive Orders attacking public school curricula mobilize a range of doublespeak, from divisive concepts to race scapegoating to psychological stress; many include the admonition that teachers may not teach students that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 20, 2023
“Florida is doing its best to tilt the scales and shut down important, much-needed discussions of race, slavery, stolen lands, and undeniable history that have led us to where we are as a society today,” Senator Shevrin Jones, a Florida Democrat, said in a statement. Here we go again?
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 25, 2016
” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Money is siphoned from traditional public schools and towards a diverse array of unregulated for-profit and private providers.
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