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Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

The Hechinger Report

Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.” The San Diego charter school, known as HSHMC, has expected content teachers to integrate literacy into their lessons since its 2007 founding.

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

Doing Social Studies

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

The Hechinger Report

We must create opportunities to practice what students learn in schools. history when the levee system broke in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, could stand to produce a few engineers from the hood. The idea that education can only be found in a brick-and-mortar school is as myopic as the idea that we can jail our way to safety.

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How teachers can talk about the Israel-Hamas conflict

The Hechinger Report

9, contains resources on how to have civil discourse on contested issues; historical information and current news on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; material on discussing war and violence in age-appropriate ways, and information on combating antisemitism and Islamophobia in schools. The guide , released Oct.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

middle school work on a Reconstruction lesson. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The creators of the Teach Reconstruction project are actively campaigning for the inclusion of lessons about Reconstruction in history and social studies classes. history when black lives mattered.”.

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