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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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These Schools Are Banding Together to Make Better Use of AI in Education

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

DENVER In Zach Kennellys senior civics class, students are building custom chatbots with artificial intelligence. One student is working on a chatbot that better curates movie and television show recommendations based on a viewers recent watch history. could do with the emerging technology.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Calling for more civics and history instruction is nothing new. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. He also taught civics at Democracy Prep Public Schools, a network of high-performing charter schools based in Harlem, New York. Fordham Institute.

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How to improve schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to students

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

a virtual charter school in Cameron, Wisconsin, for seventh grade. The school was already set up with a mostly virtual curriculum pre-pandemic. With our curriculum, I definitely think we need to highlight more Black voices across the board, across all of our classes, outside of Black history month,” she said.

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It was only a matter of time before the #MeToo movement rocked schools

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last week, in a letter addressed to the “KIPP Team and Family,” the executive leadership of the powerful charter school network announced the dismissal of one of its co-founders, Mike Feinberg, stemming from a sexual abuse allegation by one of Feinberg’s students from the late 1990s. An assistant teacher secretly recorded the incident.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. Thomas intends “to spend my entire life convincing them how exciting and important history is.” For a copy of my lesson, follow this link.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. You can usually trace it back to strong civic leadership,” McGraw said.

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TEACHER VOICE: Finding civility in an eighth-grade civics classroom

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When it was confirmed that I would be developing and piloting our school’s first civics course, I began to think about my eighth-graders more intently. I, Mr. Billups , would be entrusted with the task of teaching civics in a politically polarized atmosphere at a culturally and racially diverse school in Boston.

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In high-crime areas, education reform needs to expand outside the classroom

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2017

Just as it’s easier for students to learn French by speaking it in France, we need civics, literature and science to be practiced in communities rocked by nonsensical violence. We must create opportunities to practice what students learn in schools. And New Orleans, which experienced the greatest engineering disaster in U.S.

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More universities and colleges reach out to boost their home communities

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

To commemorate its 30th anniversary, Campus Compact has asked its members to develop “civic action plans” by March reaffirming their commitment to what it calls the public purposes of higher education. Nearly 450 have signed on.

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Teaching What Self-Government Requires

Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This summer we asked five teachers attending the residential program of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) how they convey to students what self-government requires. Citizen Action Toward a More Perfect Union But if there are no certain answers in civic life, students wonder, how can they participate in it?

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Teaching What Self-Government Requires

Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This summer we asked five teachers attending the residential program of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) how they convey to students what self-government requires. Citizen Action Toward a More Perfect Union But if there are no certain answers in civic life, students wonder, how can they participate in it?

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Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history!

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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Students Call for Hands-On Civic Education to Prepare Them for Democracy

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In recent years, a number of states have passed civics testing mandates to pressure students to become more civically active. And how useful is civic education for those who chose to get involved? One idea that’s taken root is forcing students to take a civics test as a requirement for high school graduation.

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Last week was tough, teachers say. But it wasn’t the first difficult ‘day after’ they’ve faced

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

The subject line read: “Living history.”. She wanted every middle schooler at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Before the coronavirus shutdown, middle school Principal Laina Cox works with students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. 7, the day after the attack.

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Without local school boards, parents in poor communities lose their vote

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

And in New Orleans, the majority of the public schools are under the jurisdiction of the state, but charter companies make most of the educational decisions, a trend that was further accelerated after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools.

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How teachers should talk to students about Trump’s racism

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

But civics teachers can’t afford not to address Trump’s racist behaviors, especially his recent bigoted remarks on Jan. I teach civics. There is more critical thinking that civics teachers can encourage. . Teachers should stay focused on how the current moment relates to a long history of U.S. Mississippi Learning.

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Detroit schools are effectively barred from raising funds to repair their buildings. Federal money is the city’s only hope

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. School staff worried they and the students were exposed to toxic mold.

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It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Students walk to class at a California charter school. Educational leaders must take responsibility for instilling basic civic practices and virtues in their students immediately, or they may lose the option to autocrats who have other ideas on how to run a country. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Schoolchildren “have a lot of questions and a lot of fear” in aftermath of Trump victory

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Related: After shocking election, New York history teacher tries to alleviate ‘despair, anxiety or indignation’. Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District, sympathizes with students like Benjamin. And one man does not run the country.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

These Schools Are Banding Together to Make Better Use of AI in Education

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

How to improve schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to students

It was only a matter of time before the #MeToo movement rocked schools

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

How one Mississippi district made integration work

TEACHER VOICE: Finding civility in an eighth-grade civics classroom

In high-crime areas, education reform needs to expand outside the classroom

More universities and colleges reach out to boost their home communities

Teaching What Self-Government Requires

Teaching What Self-Government Requires

Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Students Call for Hands-On Civic Education to Prepare Them for Democracy

Last week was tough, teachers say. But it wasn’t the first difficult ‘day after’ they’ve faced

Without local school boards, parents in poor communities lose their vote

How teachers should talk to students about Trump’s racism

Detroit schools are effectively barred from raising funds to repair their buildings. Federal money is the city’s only hope

It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students

Schoolchildren “have a lot of questions and a lot of fear” in aftermath of Trump victory

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