The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
This summer, the NCSE ramped up its efforts to help teachers grapple with controversial topics. Then they received training in how to teach the lessons in their classes so they could launch the series this school year. Ann Reid, executive director of NCSE. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.
Teaching American History
MARCH 11, 2025
Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. One former student who appreciates what he learned from Messick now serves on the school board for the district in which Messick teaches.
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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. Related: Helping science teachers tackle misinformation and controversial topics. There are models schools can copy in my home state. “I
The Hechinger Report
JULY 21, 2022
Hollander said climate and environmental education is still considered a controversial topic in Louisiana, with an economy that revolves around oil and gas. Controversial or not, many teachers around the country feel ill-equipped to teach the topic, according to a 2016 national survey of science teachers by NCSE and Penn State.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 15, 2022
“If you pay teachers what we pay them, and you put the entire burden of society on their shoulders, then yes, you’re going to have a teacher shortage,” said Bertha Vazquez, a science teacher at George Washington Carver Middle School in Miami, Florida. Related: Helping science teachers tackle misinformation and controversial topics.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 11, 2018
At my school, Bard High School Early College Cleveland , students finish the traditional four years of high school in their first two years, and the last two years they are both high school students and college students. Related: Can $10 million build the ideal high school?
The Hechinger Report
MAY 23, 2020
How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. When Rebecca Brewer started teaching high school biology 20 years ago, it seemed like everyone trusted science.
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