The Hechinger Report
MAY 24, 2021
Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. Devoting the extra time to a daily dose of tutoring seems most promising.
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. I began to wonder what else I didn’t know.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 17, 2021
But when it comes to learning, he’s grown to love an environment much closer to home: surrounded by extended family members in a small, salmon-colored building just down the road from his house, where tutors and adults in his tribe have taught him since last fall. High school students can take a Native American history class.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 14, 2022
Going to academic tutoring after school in China and India is just what one does if your parents can afford it: It’s what it takes to get into a top college. Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools. but lower achievement in South Korea.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Ideally, we’d be doing extended day or have tutors. It feels surreal because they are all masked and they are not doing the things we’d normally do and it’s back to normal but at the same time it’s not back to normal at all.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 15, 2022
We have classroom tutors now. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Our district has realized some of our challenges. They have put extra support in place to support us. I wouldn’t say it’s easier, but maybe it’s more digestible for staff. … The students are adjusting.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 20, 2021
We must insist that the American History we teach in our schools includes discussions of the systemic racism that has defined and divided our country. I am a primary resource when it comes to American History and civil rights, particularly in education.
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