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. Calling for more civics and history instruction is nothing new. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

Geography education plays a pivotal role in cultivating global awareness and critical thinking. At TCI, we believe that geography class should be an immersive experience where students see the world through a geographer’s eyes. The much-loved Geography Alive! With Geography Alive!

Geography 59

Geography Global Connections Global Perspectives Civics 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

And it will differ from programs in military studies at colleges around the country, which focus on strategy, military systems and the history of warfare. We understand that a person has very many intersecting identities – race, culture, ethnicity, social class, education,” Grohowski said.

Psychology 125

Psychology Advocacy Sociology Anthropology 125

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. Subjects such as history teach about the past as a lens into the present, she said.

Geography 129

Geography Political Science Sociology History 129

ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

The Delta Cultural Center is a museum and educational complex that tells the story of a land and its people, capturing what makes the Arkansas Delta region unique. It is the mission of the Delta Cultural Center to preserve, interpret and present the cultural heritage of this legendary 27-county area.

Cultures 52

Cultures Heritage K-12 Museum 52

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. on March 21, 2021.

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K-12 Ancestry Education Geography 144

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life.

Cultures 52

Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

Anthropology for Beginners

JUNE 1, 2021

2 The methodological and theoretical use of spatiality within anthropology began with ethnographies that examined the relationship of architecture and culture. He criticizes world-systems analyses as being too simplified to reflect the complexity and fluidity of the “creolization” of postcolonial culture. 1 Racialized Space.

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Anthropology Global Connections Geography Cultures 130

Living Geography

JANUARY 23, 2025

The whole series is as relevant to geographers as it is to social and cultural historians. And there's an interview with U2s Bono about his deep affection for Seamus Heaneys poetry and the role of culture in the run-up to the historic Good Friday Agreement. The third and final episode in Simon Schama's new series explores landscape.

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Cultures Government Geography History 78

Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Instead, I wanted them to understand the colony’s region, its geography, and its economy. Frayer Model Activity Next, I handed out paper Frayer models where students wrote a colony name in the middle and added information about its government, geography, economy, and religion. It even provided a knowledge base for each founder!

Geography 116

Geography Government History Cultures 116

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

In Baltimore City Public Schools, where about 80 percent of students are black, educators have long tried to incorporate African-American culture into their teaching. We never had the opportunity to celebrate the rich culture,” said Janise Lane, executive director of teaching and learning at Baltimore City Public Schools.

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Local History Geography Education Policy Public School 112

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Geography and Culture Connect: After studying a foreign country, ask students to find similarities between their own community and the one they studied. Extend: Encourage discussion on how this theme might be relevant in different cultural or historical contexts.

Geography 133

Geography Economics Critical Thinking Cultures 133

Moler's Musing

AUGUST 28, 2024

A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a 5-6 Day Unit on Native American History: A Collaborative Journey with AI Introduction: As educators, we constantly strive to create units that not only align with educational standards but also address the specific needs and skills of our students—especially those with IEPs.

American History 73

American History Geography Local History History 73

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

With diverse perspectives, backgrounds, geographies, identities and areas of expertise, these writers offered a wide range of important stories — each one unique in its own way. I’ve struggled to balance representing the history and culture of my school with my desire to support our ongoing and ever-more-pressing need to adapt.

Education 110

Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 110

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in.

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Charter School Geography Public School Private School 143

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as social studies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.

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Controversial Topics Education Lesson Plan K-12 115

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Regardless of geography, nearly all school districts face chronic challenges finding teachers for math, science, special education, foreign languages and bilingual education. This is especially true in lower-income urban districts, where academic challenges are the greatest and most persistent.

K-12 105

K-12 Geography Economics High School 105

Living Geography

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As spaces where local life and culture unfolds, our high streets can be playgrounds of personal indulgence and community spirit, or sites of contentious debate and politicking. It's certainly not just about the shopping; these thoroughfares are often the beating heart of our towns and cities and, by extension, of the people who use them.

History 52

History Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

But our research team, comprised of HMoob-American college students and education researchers, uses the spelling “HMoob” to challenge the colonial history of this ethnic group that originated in southern China. history of violent and destructive military interventions in Southeast Asia and its subsequent refugee outcomes.

Social Justice 72

Social Justice Anthropology History Geography 72

Living Geography

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

billion - more than any other music tour in history, and that's without all the associated money that is spent on accommodation, travel etc. There are lots of ideas in its contents to use as a stand alone look at cultural geography. This links with our Year 8 work on Consumption and the geography of our stuff.

Geography 52

Geography History Cultures 52

Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

How do environmental, historical, and cultural factors influence human-javelina relations in Texas? The introduction stresses the significance of understanding human-javelina encounters within their specific socio-ecological contexts through a blend of historical, ecological, and cultural analysis.

Anthropology 40

Anthropology Humanities Cultures Geography 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Communities, ones organized by race, socioeconomic class and geography, use schools to cover blatant housing discrimination, school financing bias and white supremacy. These segregated schools uphold the values, racial hierarchies and cultural norms of the people who created them. That’s horrific enough.

Economics 81

Economics Geography Civics History 81

Anthropology.net

AUGUST 3, 2024

Historical Context and Study Background North Africa, comprising Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Egypt, and Algeria, has long been a cultural melting pot, influenced by migrations from Europe, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa. 1 Serradell, J. Lorenzo-Salazar, J. Lao, O., & Comas, D. Genome Biology , 25 (1).

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Archaeology Geography History Humanities 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

Education 128

Education High School Government Economics 128

Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 20, 2024

is knowledgeable about history, geography, geology, archeology, plants, animals, and much else. “Surrounding Fort Knox Including Southern Indiana is an extraordinary book. Its brilliant author, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.,

Geography 52

Geography History Cultures 52

Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 13, 2024

is knowledgeable about history, geography, geology, archeology, plants, animals, and much else. “Surrounding Fort Knox Including Southern Indiana is an extraordinary book. Its brilliant author, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.,

Geography 52

Geography History Cultures 52

Geography Teacher Sharing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The use of Google Earth has been great to understand the concepts of Space, Scale, Place and Environment in Geography Games in Voyager You can click on the wheel like icon to access Voyager. Tsunamis in History help students to see how large volcanic eruptions and underwater earthquakes can result in Tsunamis which impact on many regions.

Geography 52

Geography Cultures History Education 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. Nobody can own spectrum, but they can get a license to use specific frequencies, which the FCC grants by geography. Explaining why requires some history. Marie Vinel uses the internet to teach the history of “Cinco de Mayo” to her Spanish class at Walton Middle School.

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Library Middle School High School Government 103

ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

The region’s geography and culture give the program key advantages when it comes to recruiting local students. Recent graduates of the dual-language program tell EdSurge they welcomed the challenge of the program’s academic rigor, which primed them to transfer to universities, and that their written Spanish improved.

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K-12 Geography Leadership Cultures 104

Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

Credit : Universal History Archive / Getty Images) And that’s not all that’s wrong with this map. When in doubt, send a scout Al-Idrisi also consulted older geographic compendia, notably Ptolemy’s Geography , as well as Islamic works. His other honorific, “father of geography,” is a shared prize at best. Got a strange map?

Heritage 52

Heritage Geography Archiving History 52

Ben Newmark

OCTOBER 7, 2024

If we were to say that academic study isn’t important for some children, we would also be failing in our obligation to pass to children a cultural inheritance which is theirs by birthright, and we would almost certainly widen the existing divisions between those born with economic advantage and those born without.

Tradition 108

Tradition Geography History Humanities 108

Living Geography

AUGUST 24, 2024

A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History Blog. It also points out quite rightly that other cultures have similar words or expressions, and that they probably predate ours given the various despoilation of the world by colonisation. Solastalgia was mentioned in the Guardian last year in a piece by Damien Gayle.

History 52

History Cultures Research 52

Living Geography

JANUARY 15, 2024

The city is wonderful to visit for its architecture and history as well as links with other cultural aspects e.g. Mozart. A remarkable thunderstorm had been circling the city, giving a stunning lightning show as well as causing us to take shelter from the torrential rainfall.

Cultures 52

Cultures History 52

Living Geography

OCTOBER 6, 2024

It explores how successive periods of history in a city leave some traces of the past, but most of them are hidden, or removed in the process of regeneration. Basements and Cellars: Many modern buildings have basements that were originally designed for different purposes, like storage or workshops, echoing the city’s industrial history.

History 52

History Cultures 52

Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 24, 2023

The test bank contains 100 questions—about 60 relating to civics and government, 30 covering US history, and ten touching on geography and cultural topics. It is done in an interview that also verifies proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in English. The questions are open-ended but only require a short answer.

Civics 52

Civics Government Geography Project-Based Learning 52

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.

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Advocacy Pedagogy Geography Tradition 40