The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy Devos at the Teacher of the Year ceremony at the White House. First, the Education Department suggests that Judaism is a religion and also an ethnicity. Judaism isn’t the only term the Education Department wants to change. May 2, 2018, Washington D.C. Photo: Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Wire.

Ancestry 68

Ancestry History Human Rights Tradition 68

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In Norway, all education for children 5 and under is referred to as “barnehagen,” the local translation of “kindergarten.”) Zachrisson, a professor at the Centre for Research on Equality in Education at the University of Oslo. Perhaps nowhere is this belief manifested more clearly than in the nation’s approach to early child care. (In

Pedagogy 145

Pedagogy Government Ancestry Cultures 145

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By the next day, Livingston had been reassigned to a special education class. A Path to Education Opens Fortunately, Livingston next enrolled in the local community college, where she discovered a well-developed program for students with hearing disabilities. She had taken no education courses. This was December.

Teaching 52

Teaching Geography Ancestry Primary Sources 52

Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Outdated education fails to dispel this disinformation. Across time, past humans frequently migrated , mated with, or displaced people they encountered in other regions—resulting in a tangled tree of human ancestry. But sickle cell anemia is neither unique to nor characteristic of people with African ancestry.

Ancestry 145

Ancestry Education Humanities K-12 145

Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By checking “Patient’s Race,” we health care providers pretend to know something that we cannot possibly know: the patient’s ancestry and associated medical risk. The very notion that one could segregate people into groups that roughly approximate ancestry assumes those ancestral groups have remained separate throughout history.

Ancestry 144

Ancestry Anthropology Humanities Museum 144

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s why Koehler is trying everything she can to retain and recruit students in the face of myriad complications, from racism to game theory, and why educators and policymakers elsewhere ought to care whether she and her staff of 24 succeed. That, in turn, can lead to fewer families signing up — and even less money.

Public School 134

Public School Private School Charter School Education 134

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Higher Education. Kathleen Brunelle, a longtime English teacher at the high school, didn’t design the course with the latest education trends in mind, but she inadvertently lined right up with them. Sometimes kids found unexpected ancestries – like one white student who found an ancestor labelled “mulatto” on an old Census.

History 139

History Ancestry Heritage Project-Based Learning 139

Anthropology News

MARCH 28, 2025

Foreign residents and Japanese of mixed ancestry try to pass as Japanese to avoid the stigma of being a foreigner. Although migrants may come to Japan for similar reasons,likeprofessional or educational opportunities,their actual experiences in Japancan differ greatly. However, not all foreigners are treated equally in Japan.

Anthropology 89

Anthropology Ancestry Government Humanities 89

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

CASABLANCA, Morocco — I grew up with a Black father of Puerto Rican and Caribbean ancestry and a white mother, in an overwhelmingly white area of Western New York. The recent unrest, violence and protests for justice in the United States provide a whole new set of challenges for educators, both at home and abroad.

K-12 109

K-12 Charter School Ancestry Education 109

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Saykhamphone, who has Laotian and Nigerian ancestry, said there are not many other Black or Hispanic students in her accelerated International Baccalaureate (IB) classes, even though 85 percent of the student body is Black, Hispanic or Asian. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

History 98

History American History Ancestry Pedagogy 98

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

The third-generation Japanese American congresswoman was a trailblazer who advocated for women’s rights, civil rights, education, and social justice. Mink co-authored and sponsored Title IX, a civil rights law that provides equal opportunity and protects people from gender discrimination in education, according to womenofthehall.org.

Heritage 59

Heritage Teaching K-12 Museum 59

Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

Yet when considering the advocacy-activism spectrum, working within the realms of education, casework, and research presents new possibilities. Some are employed in governmental organizations or in jurisdictions that may limit their political engagement.

Advocacy 99

Advocacy Anthropology Ancestry Human Rights 99

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

First there was the AAA public education initiative called Understanding Race , a rich multimedia and interactive traveling exhibition that began touring around the country in 2007, nearly twenty years ago. I dont know what legend in my ancestry broke free from this bondage of pain. And maybe they never did.

Anthropology 81

Anthropology Library Ancestry Cultures 81

Political Science Now

JANUARY 10, 2025

In response to the projects publication, the Trump administration established the 1776 Commissionan advisory committee to promote a patriotic education in American schools. The project faced almost immediate backlash, prompting legislation that banned teaching it in schools in dozens of states.

Political Science 61

Political Science Ancestry History Humanities 61