Charter School Civics Humanities 
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. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. It is pernicious, it is cruel, and it must change,” he writes. Fordham Institute.
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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Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Civic engagement is at the foundation of the ExCITe Center’s work, and Kim is constantly brokering partnerships with individual schools, teachers, and community groups; the EdClusters work is a natural extension. Michael O'Bryan Director of Youth and Young Adult Programs, The Village of Arts and Humanities.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 23, 2017
It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed. “And
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.
Teaching American History
OCTOBER 22, 2024
An Understanding of Human Nature Bryan Little of McPherson, Kansas noted that teaching government through primary documents helps students see our constitutional framework as a design based on an understanding of human nature. “I Does this author, in your view, actually understand typical human behavior?”
Teaching American History
OCTOBER 22, 2024
An Understanding of Human Nature Bryan Little of McPherson, Kansas noted that teaching government through primary documents helps students see our constitutional framework as a design based on an understanding of human nature. “I Does this author, in your view, actually understand typical human behavior?”
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