The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Middle school students were asked to read a passage about a half inning of baseball and then reenact the action using wooden figures on a model field.

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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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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MAY 31, 2024

Teaching civics and government is different from teaching history—it really requires a different set of go-to lesson ideas and projects. So, if you are brand new to the subject and need to know everything about how to teach civics, or you’re struggling to find ways to go beyond the textbook, welcome!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In Thomas Jefferson’s words , public schools were created “to instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens.”. Related: COLUMN: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson. But the problem is not just a lack of academic content about civics and history.

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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. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. We even have a set of worksheets devoted just to developing history skills.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. First graders are working with high school honors students to map kindness. Because of Prezi’s ConnectED commitment, Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on social media. Can middle-school students spot “native advertising” (ads masquerading as articles) on a crowded news website? Northport, N.Y.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

million people that is less diverse than America, and that has a history very different from our own? Create an emotional atmosphere and physical environment of warmth, comfort and safety so that children are happy and eager to come to school. Why should we bother to learn from a small country of just 5.5 6) Make homework efficient.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

In Alexandria, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology scrapped its entrance exam and is conducting a “ holistic review ” of applicants based on their GPAs, essays and other factors. “We see the exam schools as a viable platform for families to escape poverty.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Working with Eskolta School Research and Design, a New York-based education-consulting firm, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a California-based education research center, the Department was testing solutions inside dozens of schools. Gallin’s school was one of them. Hulleman and Kenn E.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

has a population of just 103 people, but civic engagement is high, including intense public support for its tiny school district. One day in spring, three middle-school boys followed along diligently as she loomed above them like a friendly Wizard of Oz. The small town of Campo, Colo., And that’s just what he did.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Perry, who is Black and attended several Black Lives Matter protests organized in Chattanooga this summer, said her school needs to do a lot more to acknowledge both Black history and the current movement for equity. He added his school’s curriculum includes a diversity of writers and historical figures. “It’s

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Teaching Civics

MAY 18, 2024

The Center for Civic Education offers a selection free lessons for K-12 students that teach about the Constitution: [link] One lesson, Constitution Day Scavenger Hunt with 60-Second Civics uses one minute audio programs that focus on the Framers of the Constitution. Middle School) Why was the Constitution necessary?

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Teaching Civics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The Center for Civic Education offers a selection free lessons for K-12 students that teach about the Constitution: [link] One lesson, “ Constitution Day Scavenger Hunt with 60-Second Civics ” uses one minute audio programs that focus on the Framers of the Constitution. Constitution! Enough said. government works.

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Students of History

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, if you're a middle school teacher, there are going to be some things you'll want to steer clear of. This is easiest to do in a Civics or American Government classroom. If you're looking for engaging lessons you can use right away in your classroom, check out my complete curricula for Civics , World , and US History.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

. — Cleveland native Toni McWilliams didn’t feel like she was putting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration to good use working as an administrative secretary for a middle school in her hometown. The job, which paid around $19,000, barely brought in enough money to support her two young daughters.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He did, and Livingston soon found herself sitting in an introductory college course in US history. The next semester, she took two more US history classes, then realized she’d found her major. The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

It suffocates the civic impulse. Why would I be engaged in a process where there’s no accountability for the person who runs the school? The school board has no power.”. Not long after the district consolidation legislation, Drew’s high school was closed. “It Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park. “It

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When it was confirmed that I would be developing and piloting our school’s first civics course, I began to think about my eighth-graders more intently. I, Mr. Billups , would be entrusted with the task of teaching civics in a politically polarized atmosphere at a culturally and racially diverse school in Boston.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

The 2016 election and the tumultuous start to Donald Trump’s presidency, which hits the 100-day mark next week, have presented civics teachers in red, blue and purple states alike with a double-edged sword. For project-based civic learning, there’s the web-based “Civic Action Project” (CAP) created by the Constitutional Rights Foundation. “The

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sessions examined ways educators can navigate state laws that limit conversations on race and other difficult topics, as well as how they can develop the high quality materials and instruction those attending said was vital to preparing students for civic life. Glenn Youngkin.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The United States spends $54 per student on those subjects, but only 5 cents per student on civics education. It has become fashionable to say we should prioritize civics education in schools. Or the abysmal scores students receive on civics tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Next come outdoor adventures, entrepreneurship, civics and wellness, along with some art-focused badges. The organization had an ignoble early history of supporting white supremacy, a history it shares with other youth groups. Nor has the Girl Scouts had significant success diversifying its membership.

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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. history and world history courses. Griffin highlighted a passage from a middle school textbook that described a socialist economy as one that “keeps things nice and even and without unnecessary waste.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

I teach history and social studies at New York University. The largest student protests in American history were in May of 1970, following the Cambodian invasion and the tragic shootings of student protesters at Kent State and Jackson State. Kirk: One idea picking up steam is to promote civic dialog in and out of the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Class of 2020 graduate Trevianne Turner, 18, feels a certain tug inside when she looks at the Katrina blight left near her school, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. High School in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward. Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. School staff worried they and the students were exposed to toxic mold.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. Reflecting on the school-library partnership, Willms — the library director — said that her experience embodied: “students first, community first, ego second.”

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Students of History

JANUARY 6, 2022

The insurrection of January 6th, 2021 is something that will be taught in US History classrooms as long as American History is a part of high school. ” This must be discussed as part of your US History or American Government course.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Staring at the faces of the middle school teachers on her computer screen, Principal Laina Cox felt the tears welling up — again. The subject line read: “Living history.”. Before the coronavirus shutdown, middle school Principal Laina Cox works with students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Related: After shocking election, New York history teacher tries to alleviate ‘despair, anxiety or indignation’. Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District, sympathizes with students like Benjamin. “I This generation needs some struggle.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. history and democracy depends on where you live, however.

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