The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

But even then, teachers of traditional U.S. and global history classes are often crunched for time by the end of the school year and struggle to fit in discussions of any events that happened after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. It’s going from the front pages of the newspaper to the history books.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Here, she comments on the history of gaming in education, its limitations and its potential—when done well—as a conduit for deep connections with learners. Then there's the more constructivist orientation: games as sites for meaning-making, in the Piagetian tradition. EdSurge: How have you seen the field of game-based learning evolve?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

From Greensboro lunch counters to Tiananmen Square, youth have led significant campaigns for social and political change throughout history. Related: COLUMN: Making America whole again via civics education. And students should engage with real-life examples of citizens actively employing such skills in political and civic life.

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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

THE DRIVE FOR PROGRESS In American history early colonists’ and settlers’ desire and drive for progress was necessitated by the need to organize ways to survive, and fed by the opportunity to use the new territory that they took and occupied. This author recalls meeting Hopi tribal elders John and Mina Lanza in the 1960’s.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. He argues for recovering America’s common school tradition, and reminds us that the founding principle of American public education was preparation for citizenship, not the private ends of “college and career.” Related: What if public schools never reopen?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In what has become an annual tradition, we’re sharing your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 fresh episodes we produced. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy.

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Civics U

JUNE 2, 2022

Of course, the freedom of religion now also legally protects the freedom to believe in various non-Christian religions and religious traditions as well as the freedom “from” religion as found in atheism and secular humanism. But this, too, is subject to differing interpretations and applications. Federer, Fame Publishing, Inc.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s a natural fit for a school community whose mission includes cultivating and cherishing “an environment that supports the academic, social-emotional, creative and civic learning” of all students. High school students create story maps to deepen their own learning and help others, in history, science, and even English literature.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. Like many online schools, students at the school took self-guided, online lessons at home or somewhere with adequate broadband and the support of an offsite teacher who could also work outside a traditional schoolhouse. Related: Go vote.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

And of the positions that were filled, many were staffed by people who do not have traditional training or are not considered qualified to work in the subject area they are teaching. has a population of just 103 people, but civic engagement is high, including intense public support for its tiny school district.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

A dorm stay is out of the question for too many of its 18 participants, who must also earn money for their families and take care of siblings, said Ben DeSmidt , a Carthage classics professor who runs the summer program together with history professor Eric Pullin. More engaging than traditional summer school.

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Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

I designed the digital pages I created to look like traditional notebooks - vertically aligned and in the style of the "cut-and-paste" activities we were already doing. Thankfully, I had been using digital notebooks in my classes for a few years. It started with occasional trips to the computer lab.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Kathryn Kay Coquemont: I want to compare something that happened in my formal education with what I think is happening with our current traditional-age college students' education. I didn't know about the history of Hawaii and what we had done to have it become part of the United States. That's become harder to do.

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TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

Integration of Economics and Civics for Real-World Connections Geography is only one of the social science disciplines. For example, students analyze a case study of lithium production in Bolivia alongside maps and charts to understand how geography influences the economics, politics, history, and culture of the region.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

To become certified in Mississippi, teachers must meet three requirements: Earn a bachelor’s degree; complete a traditional or alternate teacher training program; and pass the Praxis. “I felt like I had to become a revolutionary — the Fannie Lou Hamer for education in the Mississippi Delta.”. Adrienne Hudson, founder of RISE.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Students work on an assignment in a high school civics class. The principal reason their institutions are pushing dual-credit programs, administrators said in a survey , is that, with traditional enrollments plummeting , it gets high school students on the hook and helps recruit them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Those students stayed at the top of my mind as I considered another phenomenon taking shape in the early 2000s: the failure of traditional hiring processes to identify the qualities that are most needed at work today. The status quo was protected by layers of tradition, incentives and habits of behavior.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Osborn, who graduated from Clinton in 2005 and returned five years ago to teach history at the high school, said the benefits of Clinton’s plan stuck out to him even as a kid. You can usually trace it back to strong civic leadership,” McGraw said. Beth Raney, parent in Clinton.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects. This gives the appearance that the hearts were shot from the gun.

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Diane Ravitch

MARCH 11, 2025

John Thompson, retired teacher and historian in Oklahoma, reviews a book about how to teach civics in this era. Cormack explains that, Nationwide assessments reveal that civic knowledge hasnt improved since 1998, and Scores on Advanced Placement government tests are consistently among the lowest across all AP offerings. And guess what?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Today, most of those schools have dissolved into history, and only around 500 still exist, in varying states of upkeep. I've been a civic activist my entire life. The pillars of the Rosenwald Schools’ story — Southern, education, civic, progressive — these are the pillars of my life. And the story shocked me.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there. Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there. In mid-May, school officials hosted a Zoom version of a King tradition — the class roll call.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

In an essay published earlier this month in The Chronicle of Higher Education, history professor François Furstenberg argues that companies promising to “deliver a ‘competency-based, life-skills-based achievement record’” do so primarily in order to sell their technology. I think the testing industry is very nervous,” he says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

To commemorate its 30th anniversary, Campus Compact has asked its members to develop “civic action plans” by March reaffirming their commitment to what it calls the public purposes of higher education. Nearly 450 have signed on. Faculty were encouraged to do research in the city. Widener’s is an approach that appears to be spreading.

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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. How does the C3 Framework differ from traditional sets of standards, and what factors contributed to its widespread adoption in social studies education?

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!” Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. Czarnecki says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! According to U.S.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

Corwin Award for the best dissertation in the field of public law Recipient: Lucien Ferguson, Boston College Law School Title: “The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights” Harold D.

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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. The goal was “materials that focus on historical facts and are free from inaccuracies or ideological rhetoric,” said Education Commissioner Manny Diaz in a statement.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Lessons like these help students gain critical thinking skills and give them an opportunity to learn about workers’ rights and labor history, subjects that are often missing from classroom discussions, educators say. history, first in Portland, Oregon, and later at the Harvest Collegiate High School, a small public school in New York City.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

They’ve endured a number of Republican-led efforts to reduce arts funding since the 1990s, and in keeping with this tradition, President Trump’s budget blueprint, released in March 2017, proposes significant cuts to virtually every agency except Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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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. In 1879 the Court stood by the centuries-old understanding of marriage , ruling that religious freedom was bounded by basic legal traditions embodied in the common law.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

It suffocates the civic impulse. It just was a big change, was having to lose a school that was our tradition.”. We have a history here, in the Delta, that most African-Americans do feel powerless,” Dickerson said. Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park. “It The school board has no power.”.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Whatever the particular terminology used in each state, they are united in their larger political goal: to rob children of access to a usable past, an account of history that helps them fully see and understand their present. The right would be happy to keep the conversation at the level of obfuscation, divorced from reality and history.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

history, I have had a growing unease in recent years about the relevance of my vocation. Related: OPINION: After shocking election, New York history teachers tries to alleviate ‘despair, anxiety or indignation ’. history teachers spend a lot of time and teaching energy focusing on the nation’s shortcomings — and for good reasons.

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