The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

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. In the author’s telling, the Cult of Smart is “the notion that academic value is the only value, and intelligence the only true measure of human worth.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,

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Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. Nathan’s past students have created and led several civic and historical preservation projects. You can copy and paste your appropriate citation, see image insert.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

It has evolved its approach and dynamically responds to social, cultural and economic change over time. Embracing new demographics, instead of running from them, will enable us to bridge the gaps between human capital, knowledge and societal needs.”. Providing education for adult learners is consistent with this original impulse.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Credit recovery” programs are an appropriate intervention for students who have fallen behind or have mitigating circumstances. Young people represent untapped potential in a nation that needs their talents — socially, economically and civically. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

After the white flight transpired, an extended retreat from cities after the Second World War, migration back to urban areas over the last decade has been stimulating economic growth and technological innovation. Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

Wilson co-leads a summer institute called Learning Environments for Tomorrow (LEFT) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — bringing together researchers, architects, designers, and educators to explore how learning spaces can support various goals, such as playfulness, collaboration, and civic engagement. Prioritize equity.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

But now some workforce organizations, researchers and regional civic leaders are pushing back — persuading companies to look beyond academic credentials and to instead hire people based on their skills. Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Many consider it good parenting to lie, wield political power and circumvent rules if it gets your child into a “good” school. Related: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson. Wilson High has a waiting list of 639 families. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Prince finds one – about how teaching and learning systems might become oriented around a holistic understanding of human development – to be particularly accessible for current educators. Forecast 5.0 imagines possibilities for the future of education.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Or march to a local civic building. A teacher was the MC, the memorial director (who is also a SNCC veteran) spoke, and then teachers read their pledges. See photos and stories about the D.C. events in 2021 and 2022. Walk on a route with signs to raise awareness about the threats to education. Music and chants are a plus. Walking tours.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Also in 2006, ministers of education from Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member nations agreed in Athens to develop a worldwide measure of learning called the Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes. Fifty-seven percent of college graduates failed a civic literacy exam.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. My class would be in YouTube heaven.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans. The future will leave room for human teachers. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. Related: Go vote.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. The point, he said, is “the human values and the human principles that one learns in childhood. Why should we bother to learn from a small country of just 5.5

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Political Science Now

JULY 26, 2024

Comprehensive in its approach, Druckman and Sharrow present original survey data of 7500 student-athletes, coaches, administrators, citizens, and sports fans in addition to decades of financial, participation, and human resources records. He is also an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

It also means improved skills, better employment prospects, and economic growth for families, communities and our nation as a whole. Leave this field empty if you're human: Students of color reported having an “excellent” experience at their community college at similar or slightly higher percentages than their white counterparts.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These gaps are often blamed on racial and economic segregation. I've been very involved in the civic life of my community — I've been very involved in the nonprofit world and the political world — and when I thought about my voice as a photographer, I found myself drawn to topics that were of interest in the course of my civic life.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. An inquiry-based education trains students for college, career and civic life — C3! The foundation is so well established. Who can argue with inquiry?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Each describes some component of democracy, such as free and open elections, freedom of the press, transparency in government, economic freedom, an independent judiciary, and so on. Now she sees herself preparing students for lives of civic engagement. Students then attempt to rank these components in priority order.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

They were juniors at Niles West High School, an economically diverse school serving approximately 2,500 students in the Chicago suburbs. million in state funds for a three-year pilot that would incorporate labor history in civics, economics and history classes, along with simulations like those run by the DePaul center.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The textbooks are for elementary and middle school social studies classes as well as civics, economics, U.S. The new passage reads, “Critics say these planned economies have slow development and fewer technological advances” in part because they limit “human incentive. history and world history courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Without social studies, we lose the civic mission of public schools,” said Stephanie Serriere, a former early-grade teacher who is now an associate professor of social studies education at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. “But Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate. Yet, economic segregation, which is more pronounced among families with children, also creates public school districts where affluent families predominate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Students shivering in winter coats while trying to learn is horrific in itself, but the malfunctioning boilers are a metaphor for the wider problems with the criminal justice systems, schools, housing and economic development plans in the “Charm City.”. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

For example, with only a $148 million annual budget, NEA investments in the arts help contribute to a $730 billion economic arts and culture economic industry, including 4.2 Art transforms civic participation and further calls to each of us in ways that inspires individuals to do great things.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

He had stellar grades in high school and is civic- minded, taking after his mother, who works as a community organizer in Thibodaux. Leave this field empty if you're human: TOPS’ windfall disproportionately goes to rich white students. He was exactly the kind of student Nicholls hoped to attract. Choose as many as you like.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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Civics U

JANUARY 27, 2022

These systems will be reviewed by generally applying the rubrics of government power and elections; property and economics; and human rights. The United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor 2020 report on Russia’s human rights practices identifies a number of “significant human rights issues”.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. To Americans, the war brought risk, loss and sacrifice, but did not diminish expectations for economic growth and social and political reforms. Many grew pessimistic about modern “progress.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

However, to collapse education and labor into a single agency is to also reduce education’s role in developing full human beings. Children need to view themselves as full human beings, as citizens even, something a good liberal arts foundation provides. Department of Health Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. Lisette Martinez worked on a house for Habitat for Humanity during her senior year at Jefferson High School in Greeley, Colo., I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. Justice Kagan has argued eloquently for the importance of opposing official endorsements of religion in civic practices and memorials such as public architecture.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mississippi was the site of the most notorious lynching in the early civil rights movement, the killing of Emmett Till in 1955, and had the highest rates of lynching in the country — violence meant to impose social, economic, and political intimidation. Hamer’s speech further swayed public sympathy for the MFDP.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Related: If the anger that propelled Trump’s win is economic, can higher education fix it? ” In Ithaca, New York, Audrey Southern, a humanities teacher at New Roots Charter School, said the politics of her 11 th and 12 th graders are diverse, so she decided to plunge on with exams rather than discuss the election. “I’m

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