The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I I need to take my students outside and have them actually do the work of protesting.”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

New Jersey is set to become the first state in the nation to mandate teaching media literacy to students of all ages as a bill with the requirement heads to Gov. A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. Subscribe today!

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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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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Donate Today Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking the very heart of the Zinn Education Project — teaching people’s history in classrooms across the country. Meanwhile thousands of classroom teachers refuse to be bullied into lying to children and have pledged to continue to teach the truth.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Jessica Lander’s classroom at Lowell High School, every student is a recent immigrant or refugee. And she’s been exploring innovative teaching strategies to help best reach her diverse students. They come from about 30 different countries, including the Republic of Congo and Cambodia.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students who demonstrate excellence in civics education. There is no better way to integrate SEL and civic engagement for the next generation of learners.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its easy to focus on just the President when teaching the Executive Branch, but its important also to stress the role of the four million other people who make up this branch of government. Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

West, an associate professor, and Professor Carl Bergstrom teach “Calling BS: Data Reasoning in a Digital World” (although the actual course listing uses the more colorful language). Related: Can we teach our way out of political polarization? We’re teaching web credibility as if it’s 2002,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — Related: STUDENT VOICE: Here’s why my high school and others must address anti-Asian racism.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Michael Gallin is a math teacher at Kappa International High School in the Bronx. NEW YORK — Michael Gallin, a 34-year-old math teacher at KAPPA International High School in the Bronx, was winding his way through the cluttered aisles of his algebra classroom listening for sighs of frustration. Now, I say: ‘I can do this.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

In K-12 schools, students are facing an onslaught of emerging technologies — new developments arrive by the day — and yet we’re still teaching many of our core school subjects as if our daily lives are unchanged by these tools. The goal is not to create an army of professional data scientists straight out of high school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

On May 31, a school board meeting in Hernando County, Florida, made national news when more than 600 hundred people showed up and the meeting lasted until 2:30 a.m. The county had moved the meeting to the high school auditorium to accommodate a large crowd. Florida Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

eLearn.fyi is a database of more than 300 online resources, from a civics curriculum created by a former Supreme Court justice to engineering lessons for building a robotic arm. Other student entrepreneurs have applied their hard-earned wisdom to improving virtual school, too. Credit: eLearn.fyi.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

While these issues can seem overwhelming to young students, exploring them within the context of their school can not only make lessons stick, but also encourage students’ sense of civic agency.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

We’ll never forget last year, when survivors of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, became leaders instead of victims, taking their cause all the way to Washington, D.C., The public high school I attended — River Bluff High School in Lexington, South Carolina — has one answer.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Every senior spends a month working outside of school at full-time internships throughout Chicago. Blanton, a high school senior, was interning for the firm’s information technology group. Linnea Garrett, Chicago Technology Academy school director. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. A staff shake-up ensued.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When Laci Hargrove turned 16, she was a sophomore in high school with nowhere near the credits she needed for her grade level.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 16, 2024

Once kids are in high school, there usually isn’t time or the need to spend a whole week solely doing relationship-building activities. I might tweak my “Welcome to Civics class” activities a little year to year, but here are my tried-and-true favorite ones to do to establish a great foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. I taught my students to respect the power of civic engagement and social activism. Teaching is inherently activist. It must be resisted.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I The post COLUMN: Want teachers to teach climate change?

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 24, 2023

It seems like that’s precisely what’s happened now that the Citizenship Test is a high school graduation requirement in many states. I’ve heard many Government and Civics teacher friends in states that do require it talk about it being “one more thing” and “such a joke.” I want to share how I do it in my senior Civics class.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

After 13 years of teaching, I’ve had just over 1,700 students walk in and out of my classroom. Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. Victoria formally taught in New Orleans, and this is her third year in the profession. History class.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. The following interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Political cartoons are the perfect basis for so many civics activities and topics, regardless of ability level. Over the years of teaching high school Civics and Government, I’ve used them in countless ways with my students. Here are my go-to favorite civics activities I use with political cartoons.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2022

“The liberal deep state is faking sexual assault to block Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment,” said one of my classmates with great conviction during my freshman year of high school. I often put a dot on my board,” said Chris Kerrick, a civics teacher at Marshall County High School in rural southwestern Kentucky. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Fewer than 20 percent of high school students knew that simply looking at one photo online is not enough research to gauge if something is really happening. And among middle school students, 80 percent did not understand that “sponsored content” on a news organization’s website is paid advertising.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Rural students tend to do well in elementary school, but something changes as they get older. Although rural schools have made tremendous gains in high school graduation rates, these students are still less likely than their suburban and urban peers to successfully continue their education after high school.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Your Civil Liberties or Judicial Branch unit isn’t complete without spending a few days teaching about landmark Supreme Court cases. Then, see what various credible government and non-profit civics websites have listed as landmark cases. If you just teach Brown v. First, consult your state standards. I like to use Texas v.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of failure for aspiring Black and Latinx teachers is even higher than for aspiring white teachers, making lack of content knowledge preparation yet another obstacle to the diversification the teaching profession so dearly needs. Only 42 percent have said they felt very well prepared to teach social studies.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It’s troubling then, to be faced with signs of a teaching profession in decline — with alarming teacher shortages , fewer college students choosing to become teachers and many current teachers not recommending that others enter the profession. And current shortages are finally beginning to spur an embrace of broader conceptions of teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Rosamund Looney, who teaches first grade in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, said that because of the stresses of the pandemic and online learning, “we need to grant a lot of grace and accomodations.” Credit: Rosamund Looney. Looney reminded the first grader that she had to be in virtual class by 7:45 a.m. — Credit: Brian Westlake.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. Without starting algebra in middle school, it was difficult to progress to high school calculus, an important course for college applications. But Boaler has become the public face of nontraditional teaching ideas in math.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

(School officials said the decline is due to incomplete data.) Younger students attend the K-8 campus on the former boarding school site, while the high school is located in a gleaming new tower nearby at the Central New Mexico College. No language class, nothing,” Joshua said of his previous school.

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