The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This spring, he and fellow student leaders helped get Portland Public Schools to adopt one of the most ambitious climate policies in the nation.

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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. After studying the artwork of pop artist Andy Warhol, fifth and sixth grade students made artwork inspired by his creations.

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

Teachers of history and social studies on all grade levels know they want students to do more than just memorize facts; they want students to practice thinking about history as well. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

But they never would tell me how to go to school when I was going through something.”. A favorite civics teacher pulled her aside and told her that her schoolwork was academically strong. “If Schools Superintendent White believes that connecting high schools and HiSET programs funnels more resources to kids like Hargrove.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

When Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’ running mate earlier this month, his ascendancy helped to elevate the idea of educators serving in public office. They’re already public servants,” Siegel-Stechler points out. is a high school alternative education and social studies teacher in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

. — One of the longtime goals of public education is to produce young people capable of participating in the democratic process. Experts say that requires regular and high-quality social studies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

August 15, 2018 — The first day of school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. In short, they are demonstrating what real civic engagement looks like.

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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. Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the State Education Department had rejected 35% of the social studies textbooks submitted for review because of leftist content. The DeSantis administration objects to any references to “social justice” or negative references to capitalism. history and world history courses.

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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

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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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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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. Related: Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies? An admirable goal, and one we broadly share.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Related: LISTEN: In this Kentucky town, refugees can choose a separate high school. The answer starts in the classroom, where civics education often fails to inspire and engage students. Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. We need to learn civics from the ground up. Where did we go wrong?

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Diane Ravitch

MARCH 8, 2024

State legislatures these days tthjnkbthat they should pass laws telling teachers how to teach reading and what to teach in social studies. Joe Miller, D-Lorain, a former social studies teacher who instructed students on the principles of capitalism. That’s right.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A friend who taught in the Philadelphia public schools for nearly four decades said that the presidential election made her feel like the schools had failed to do their job; that her work, as high school teacher, had failed to help her students understand the importance of democratic engagement. I am not alone.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 5, 2023

Tim Slekar, Director of the Educator Preparation Program at Muskingum University in Ohio comments here on the recent report that NAEP scores in history and civics dropped during the pandemic. There were no headlines about the dismal state of teaching and learning American history and civics in 2018. I wrote the above in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

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. Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. Should we expect schools to develop engaged and responsible democratic citizens?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

There is a longstanding principle that public school teachers, as representatives of the state, must not attempt to influence their students’ political beliefs, according to Wayne Journell, an education professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The topic is outlined in Georgia’s state social studies standards.

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