Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

We the People: Teaching the Constitution Workshop for Elementary Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 07:46 Body Looking closely at the Preamble of the Constitution, teachers will work with primary sources from the National Archives and consider how the interpretation of “We the People” has changed over time.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Opportunity Explorer, Stanford Education Data Archive. In conjunction with this study, Stanford Education Data Archive released its vast data trove on an interactive website, the “ Opportunity Explorer ,” where anyone can see the test scores for every public school in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2020

Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images. There’s plenty of research on what happens when kids are separated from their parents, but little on the consequences of being separated from peers, educators and extended family. Deprived of access to larger networks, parents must support each other, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

According to Conant’s notes, which Nicola read in the Harvard archives, Conant began his project with a 400-to-1 student-to-counselor ratio in mind. He sought to publicize model schools for the rest of the nation to copy. Conant’s primary focus was on curriculum but school counseling was also on his radar.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Mary McLeod Bethune with a group of students after resigning as President of Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1943.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

This story from the Hechinger archive lays out what researchers project will happen if there is not an increase in the number of nonwhites going to and through college. The most dramatic place to see this is in kindergarten through grade 12, where Hispanics make up nearly a quarter of enrollment nationwide, up from 16 percent in 2000.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2019

That’s an archive of research that the U.S. Wolf and three of her colleagues analyzed roughly 170 studies in reading and math dating as far back as 1984 that are part of the What Works Clearinghouse. Department of Education launched in 2002 to help educators decide which educational products to buy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Thanks to painstaking calculations at the Stanford Education Data Archive , there is now a dataset that maps every state test onto a single national yardstick. In the past, it was hard to compare academic achievement in different parts of the country because every state has its own standards and related tests.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

The purpose of a K-12 education is to offer a solid foundation for these young people, yet we’re saying they should come to school for only half the time,” Huidekoper said. The document is no longer on the university’s website, but is available from a web archive.).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

Tracking down some of those families was made easier by a list of McDonogh 19 “Room Mothers” from the school desegregation archives of the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University. Hoping to find some former classmates, she posted a call-out to her Facebook page, but got no response. The list includes Mrs. Lee Cannizaro of 1210 Caffin St.,

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Select a site in your town or city that symbolizes or reflects history that teachers would be required to lie about or omit if these bills become law, which is already the case in some states.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. There are also countless historic sites that are unmarked such as a freeway that destroyed a neighborhood or a university building funded by enslaved labor.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In contrast, James K. This summer, Creel joined a dozen other teachers from across the state at a weeklong training institute at the state’s Department of Archives and History. Books over 12 years old should not be on the district’s ‘active listing’ of books,” Spears said via email. Her assigned ninth-grade textbook back then?

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Source: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images I was one of the student plaintiffs in the case. When the Iowa Civil Liberties Union challenged the suspensions in court and won, they scored a major victory for the rights of K–12 students, whose free speech issues are often overshadowed by those of college and university students.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. The Forks in Winnipeg, Manitoba As a rural K–12 school, we rarely get opportunities to connect with students and teachers from urban schools in our province. Thank you to Louis Riel School Division!

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

OER ranges from highly structured college courses (MOOCs) to less structured curricula from colleges and other institutes of learning (OpenCourseWare a/k/a OCW), to free online textbooks, and everything in between. I work in K-12 education, Nicole with college students, and Philipp primarily with adult learners.

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 20, 2024

” By Jim Peppler, Alabama Department of Archives and History A unit with three lessons by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca provides essential historical context for today’s struggle against voter suppression and for voting rights. Below are resources for teaching about voting rights. Voting Rights Unit Who Gets to Vote?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Looking around the archive room, Principal Dianne Zanders mused “There’s a lot of pride, a lot of pride here.” The archive room is a recent addition, created at the insistent urging of the old high school’s alumni. The private school now has a manicured campus and around 700 students, K-12, the vast majority white, 1.6

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

While the measure wouldn’t guarantee that every child in the state gets a week at outdoor school, a summer-camp like experience with a focus on science and social emotional skill building, it would make such an offer possible for every interested school district, as was first reported by The Hechinger Report in this story from our archives.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Senate, Blanche K. Several organizations are providing information to help educators teach about Reconstruction.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

The study took advantage of test score data from the Stanford Education Data Archive , which maps every state’s own assessment onto a single national yardstick. Kirksey explained that white scores increased slightly and Latino scores decreased slightly in grades three through eight.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Wehrer acknowledges the racial differences between the K-4 schools, but said the real division between the populations is socioeconomic. Daily Messenger newspaper archives at the Carnegie Library of Homestead explain that history. In the early 1960s, Pennsylvania wanted to reduce its 2,189 districts to about 500.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

By 1970, just 24 white students were enrolled in Holmes County public schools, according to an archived report. A study from University of California, Berkeley economist Rucker Johnson suggests exposure to integrated schools among other reforms, such as high-quality pre-K and equitable school funding, can help disrupt the cycle of poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

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. At Chula Vista Learning Community Charter , a dual language K-12 school near the Mexican border, that idea is anathema to both teachers and students.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Teaching Resources Lessons and Articles About K–12 Lessons and teaching stories on Palestine and Israel from Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project website. Toolkit to Defend K-12 Educators and Librarians Against False Accusations of Antisemitism compiled by Nora Lester Murad and Alice Rothchild.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Honani’s son attends Hopi Junior Senior High School, which is funded and partially overseen by the Bureau of Indian Education, an agency within the Department of the Interior that manages nearly 200 tribal K-12 schools throughout the country. That was after 33 states and the District of Columbia had already made the same move.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2017

Related: From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S. In all cases, marchers and protesters responded to a similar challenge: As Trump is making critical decisions that affect people all over the world, he appears to be doing so in a reckless, self-serving and oppressive manner.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

So what started in the public arena of K–12, and extended to higher education and Florida public college and universities, has now extended to private universities. Muhammad: It’s another part of the archival record. This literally was an uninterrupted campaign of anti-Black terror that was sweeping the South, of which Ida B.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Related: From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S. Given all of the turmoil in our nation and the world, it’s easy to shrug one’s shoulders, perhaps shed a tear, and say, “But what can I do?”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2017

Related: From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S. The toxic dialogue that has surrounded the national debate about issues of immigration, civil rights and border security is troubling to me.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The growth of “Course Choice” initiatives in various states was chronicled in depth by The Hechinger Report last year, in this story from our archives. — It remains to be seen whether a Trump Administration will boost them further, using federal policy. The editors.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

So what started in the public arena of K through 12, and extended to higher education and Florida public college and universities, has now extended to private universities. Muhammad: It’s another part of the archival record. Polls showed participants included 31% K–12 teachers, 20% teacher educators, and 11% K–12 students.

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