The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 9, 2018
Throughout elementary school, I was always known as the girl who talked a lot and turned simple conversations into debates. This was the launch of my civics engagement. Related: Making America whole again via civics education. But what are we doing to get students, and citizens in general, civically engaged?
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts. Rural students tend to do well in elementary school, but something changes as they get older. More than 9.3 The small town of Campo, Colo., Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report.
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The Hechinger Report
JULY 11, 2018
The February 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gave new life to student activism, prompting a level of civic engagement among students that many had never considered.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2020
In New Haven, where schools remain entirely remote this fall, Alysoun Kegel, a music teacher, has seen some students’ loneliness manifest itself with nonstop chattering. She’s also found it harder to engage with some of her elementary school students. Over video, it’s hard to tell why. “In – DELECE SMITH-BARROW.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 15, 2021
Marie Hydukovich was teaching middle school when she heard that 20 children had been murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. She is currently a library media specialist at South Saint Paul Public Schools, in Minnesota. Credit: Marie Hydukovich.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 8, 2018
Related: COLUMN: Tolerating failing schools in New Orleans — so long as they’re for black kids. What do y’all think about school being this cold?” author and former NFL linebacker Aaron Maybin asked a group of Baltimore elementary school kids wearing winter coats and hoodies, though they sat in their classroom.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 20, 2017
Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. From elementary school on, we are told both implicitly and explicitly that our opinions either shouldn’t or can’t be voiced. The resulting voter apathy follows a natural logic: If my voice doesn’t matter in school, then how could my ballot?
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