The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

Unlike other species, humans use language as a kind of operating system for our big brains. But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. Others blame schools and teachers for “failing” our kids, but the data suggest otherwise. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Schools have to address student climate anxiety, provide them knowledge and skills, including the ability to recognize misinformation, and empower them to act, while schools also “clean up their act” by decarbonizing their physical infrastructure. We’ve been doing research with New York City Public Schools for the past 6-7 years.

Teaching 96

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 96

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. I've always been in public schools, and I’ve had ups and downs. history, European history, human geography, AP government.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Consequently, they are able to improve and feel good about their learning, which are key parts of curiosity and a growth mindset that are so valuable, yet often so difficult, to instill in struggling students. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Unlike programs at other colleges and universities, the curriculum focuses on major Western philosophical thinkers and writers via a “great books” program that Montás , who directs Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, considers critical to students’ intellectual development. Weekly Update.

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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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High School Civic Engagement Civics Social Justice 49

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

From the more than 7,000 employees that were terminated in total in New Orleans, the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) dismissed approximately 4,300 teachers, 71 percent of whom were black, 78 percent women. About half of the terminated teachers returned to Louisiana public schools by fall 2007.

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Education Civics Humanities Public School 79

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Chancellor Antwan Wilson of DCPS during a visit at the Washington Metropolitan High School. Public Schools, agreed to leave his post last month after news broke that he had flouted his own school enrollment policy. Wilson and his wife felt that the performing arts school his eldest child attended wasn’t a good fit.

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Civics Economics Public School High School 76

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The newly formed Philadelphia Education Innovation Cluster is aiming to infuse the city’s namesake fraternal spirit into their regional education ecosystem, a network that includes community centers, art organizations, public television, Philadelphia Public Schools (representing 130,000 students and 300 schools), and more.

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Civic Engagement Heritage Charter School Civics 71

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. One school district stands out as a model of implementation: Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools (LCPS).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

The Rethinking Schools editors add that for teachers, the challenge is to help young students to acquire the “critical dispositions and questioning” skills that “set the stage to encourage children to act on what they’ve learned — to have ‘civic courage,’ to act as if we live in a democracy.”

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History Elementary School Library Civics 75

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. A final section of the forecast points to existing schools and educational programs that offer glimpses of the future. Forecast 5.0

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Civics Economics Government Tradition 66

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Children of color make up the majority of public school students under age 18, and their share of the population will only grow, even as the total number of college students is projected to drop by 15 percent over the next decade. “If Sources: National Center for Education Statistics, ED Data Express. LSU President F. LSU President F.

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Library Government High School Civics 111

4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

Humans remember what we think about, so actually engaging intellectually with history will help students to remember more of it. And as citizens of a democracy, we want our students to be able to grapple with history, politics, and social and civic questions actively and critically. This is a valuable and important goal.

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Primary Sources Social Studies Civics History 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

For each student who drops out, high schools earn a zero. Leave this field empty if you're human: In the past, some have viewed Louisiana’s accountability incentives with caution, fearing schools may sit back, knowing that they can push low-performing students into a high-school equivalency program and earn 25 points.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed.

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High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 80

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

School, district-based, or statewide book study Regular meetings to discuss chapters and create individual and/or collective action plans around each of the book’s five sections. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Perhaps that’s why some observers have connected Feiler’s exhibition about the past to the racial-educational gap of today , particularly noting the contemporary lack of adequate resources for public schools and the “school-to-prison pipeline.” I've been a civic activist my entire life. And the story shocked me.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

The step from public teacher to public office holder is, for many, intuitive, says Kelly Siegel-Stechler, a senior researcher at Tufts University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. They’re already public servants,” Siegel-Stechler points out. Chad King Wilson Sr.

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Education Civics Government Political Science 117

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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Public School Sociology Civic Engagement Economics 107

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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Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 142

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 Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

Social Studies 111

Social Studies Civics Controversial Topics Elementary School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Both he and his mother loved to practice their photography skills among the long-slung red-brick buildings clustered around the school’s tidy quad. Woods thought about going away to college, but he believed attending a local public school would save his family money. He was exactly the kind of student Nicholls hoped to attract.

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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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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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Social Studies Social Justice K-12 Civics 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Caroline Patrie is a high school science teacher in Maine’s Portland Public Schools; her first day as a teacher was September 11, 2001. Construction had pushed back the new school year at her Vermont high school. “In Credit: Caroline Patrie. September 11 was Caroline Patrie’s first day teaching.

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Charter School Civics Middle School Civic Engagement 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

This activity, part of a Yale-designed program to build students’ social skills, usually runs for at least 20 minutes each day in all 18 elementary schools in Highline Public Schools, a racially diverse district just south of Seattle. In public education,” she said, “we tend to gild the lily a little bit.”. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

secretaries of Education and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is to “transform teaching of history and civics” in ways that (they hope) will diminish political polarization in this country. Their ambitious effort, endorsed by six former U.S. An admirable goal, and one we broadly share. It’s a great question.

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American History History Teaching Civics 100

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

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. 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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Education Economics Civics History 86

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

LeBron James speaks at the opening ceremony for the I Promise School in Akron, Ohio, Monday, July 30, 2018. The I Promise School is supported by the The LeBron James Family Foundation and is run by the Akron Public Schools. when white parents move to affluent towns, or pull their kids out of zoned district schools.

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Charter School Civics K-12 Public School 66

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).

Education 84

Education Government Private School Civics 84

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The tsunami of laws and Executive Orders attacking public school curricula mobilize a range of doublespeak, from divisive concepts to race scapegoating to psychological stress; many include the admonition that teachers may not teach students that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist. for a students.

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Social Justice Primary Sources History Civics 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Thousands of students took to Twitter to organize a national walkout on the anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting on April 20. It’s time to give legislators the civics lesson they apparently never received. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Civics 84

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