Archiving Elementary School History 
ED Surge
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 1, 2019
NEW ORLEANS — Clutching a small purse, six-year-old Leona Tate walked into McDonogh 19 Elementary School here and helped to desegregate the South. The story’s breadth is rarely explained, said Tate, who wants visitors to McDonogh 19 to learn the history, within the very space where history was made. “I Board decision.
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. The evolution in thinking on the value of bilingual education and the specifics of the voter proposition was covered in depth by The Hechinger Report in this story from our archives.
Dr. Shannon Doak
JANUARY 18, 2019
Do you remember reading those great books in elementary school that let you choose what happened next? In fact, the stories are stored in the browsers history, so if you delete the history then the story will also be deleted. A great place to start is at the Twine Wiki. Example of the code used to link story parts.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 14, 2024
Board of Education consolidates lawsuits filed in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Kansas, South Carolina and Virginia in response to school segregation. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, one of the cases consolidated with Brown v. protests the integration of Central High School on Aug. Davis, et al.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 2, 2016
Home to more than 12,000 public school children, the district was the first in Mississippi to defy the governor and voluntarily offer real choice for white and black children to enroll in each other’s schools. Elementary school populations were merged, T.L. Black History was added, busing was provided.
Life and Landscapes
APRIL 21, 2025
The first-floor auditorium and radio station were flooded with mud, and their archives severely impacted. At Kona, the Martha Jane Potter Elementary School sits at the junction of Boone Creek and the North Fork of the Kentucky River. The three-story, frame headquarters building proudly identifies its history.
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