The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

“We would like to take this moment to acknowledge the Dena’ina Athabascan people and the wisdom that has allowed them to steward the land on which Anchorage and Service High School reside,” the high school senior said. This story also appeared in High Country News. David Paoli, who is Iñupiaq from U?alaq?iq,

Tradition 145

Tradition Heritage High School Cultures 145

Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2025

It is deeply rooted in our cultures, histories, geographies, and values. Styles, instruments, and lyrics often reflect the landscapes, climates, and cultures of their origin. For example, two of my sons chose to play the same trumpet that their dad played when he was in high school band. Music is everywhere!

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Teaching Primary Sources Heritage 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

It also got me thinking about my own schooling and how rare it was to personally identify with what I was learning. I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties. Related: Teachers go to school on racial bias. Cultural and social relevance.

Heritage 129

Heritage Artifacts Local History Social Studies 129

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In addition, many Native students attend schools that may lack the hardware, software and high-speed internet needed for these classes. Even when the instruction is available, courses often lack cultural relevance that would allow Native students to authentically engage with the material, the report says.

K-12 127

K-12 Heritage Middle School Tradition 127

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. Although students seemed to enjoy the school-wide production, Zeng was embarrassed. “It

History 107

History Heritage K-12 American History 107

ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

As a teacher in Hawaiʻi, I am keenly aware and reminded of my identity as a "local" teacher, one whose family heritage traces back generations in the same community. For Indigenous and Native peoples, who have a deep sense of place that is woven into their cultures, practices and genealogy, this can be seen as disrespectful.

Ancestry 132

Ancestry Heritage Cultures History 132

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. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

Cultures 52

Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

The report, released in May during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, surveyed over 5,000 Americans from diverse backgrounds and includes findings about Asian American stereotypes, visibility and acceptance. not only to foster more understanding and tolerance, but also to show the beauty and complexity of cultures often neglected. . —

American History 108

American History History Teaching Primary Sources 108

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Her watchwords are “cultural humility, cultural relevance and the cultural landscape.” As a [white] teacher coming in 30 years ago, I was not prepared for working with Native American students and their culture. Making sure the kids know their culture — it’s not easy,” she said. “ or name another tribe.

Heritage 114

Heritage Tradition Cultures Public School 114

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

“Rules were often enforced through punishment, including corporal punishment such as solitary confinement; flogging; withholding food; whipping; slapping; and cuffing,” according to the first-ever federal investigative report, released last year, into the traumatic legacy of boarding schools.

Teaching 144

Teaching K-12 Heritage Government 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Students are once again in the crosshairs of our nation’s political culture, following the College Board’s decision to buckle under political pressure and strip their Advanced Placement African-American studies course of essential topics for what is supposed to be a rigorous, college-level course.

American History 99

American History History Heritage Cultures 99

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

Kent State Ashtabula is in a rural county near Cleveland, where black and Latino students make up about a third of the local high school. Campus culture is a major factor in student success, research has found. This school year, only four of 99 instructional faculty members were people of color. Very few have succeeded.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring Heritage Cultures High School 145

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In upstate New York, a high school English teacher said, “I remember driving into school not wanting to go in, being really sad and just crying. I thought to myself, ‘I don't have anyone that I could talk to in my entire school that has any idea about what's going on right now.’”

K-12 143

K-12 Ancestry Education Geography 143

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. By the time they get to high school, students can likely list half a dozen times they’ve created an “All About Me” collage, showing family or cultural backgrounds, as a way for classmates and teachers to get to know one another.

Heritage 81

Heritage Cultures Research High School 81

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

This isn’t surprising, given that many public school students in the U.S. don’t have an opportunity to learn a new language in school until middle or high school. My high school offered an introductory French course and I was not excited about it. Census Bureau, 78 percent of the U.S.

K-12 110

K-12 Education Heritage Middle School 110

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

For now, the recent high school graduate is taking some education courses at the local community college. But the collapse of the coal industry here and across Appalachia has made it harder to survive on a high school education. Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense.

High School 141

High School Economics Heritage Geography 141

ED Surge

MAY 12, 2023

My parents didn’t have the tools necessary to help a half-Korean girl navigate school and life. Over the course of middle school and high school, I met a few other biracial kids like me. Could I be the teacher that I needed when I was in school? We are open to the ideas of different cultures,” said another.

Heritage 116

Heritage Middle School High School Cultures 116

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

Educational Technology 98

Educational Technology EdTech Education Heritage 98

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.” Will Neal playing fiddle being recorded by Todd and Sonkin.

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

That meant Cristian started his first day of school in America without a hug from his mom or a reassuring smile from his dad. Nor did he walk into school with his brother. No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Cristian is set to graduate from North High School in the spring.

Middle School 105

Middle School Cultures High School Tutoring 105

NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

As part of the NCHE project, The Rural Experience in America , history club students at Cuba High School created a podcast about a local history topic of their choosing. I was familiar with his work with the Forgottonia Project at Cuba High School and was eager to help.

Oral History 100

Oral History Public History History Museum 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Similar to many second-generation Chinese living in America, it’s been difficult for me to reconnect with my heritage. I am often faced with the decision to assimilate and lose the Chinese culture or keep the culture and just not fit in. Through the camp, I did learn more about my culture.

Heritage 43

Heritage Museum Cultures Government 43

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

Related: Will high school segregation for refugees lead to better integration? I have colleagues who have moved from different cities and school districts into my own district and immediately began teaching senior-level courses with the same understanding of curriculum and same expectations for academic performance that I have.

Heritage 63

Heritage Political Science Government Psychology 63

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

He believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression. Eventually, Du Bois moved to Ghana to work on the Encyclopedia Africana , an ambitious project to compile everything known about the history, accomplishments, and cultures of African people.

Museum 52

Museum Social Studies Advocacy History 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. For Johnson, the school was a bid to cultivate the greatness she saw in these local kids, including her own daughters.

Charter School 109

Charter School History Library Public School 109

Sapiens

APRIL 23, 2025

Traveling Treasures is a new project led by a team of anthropologists that puts Liberians directly in touch with their dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies designed to bridge continents and histories. Tubman High School in Monrovia, Liberia, it wasnt to play the latest viral video game.

Cultures 93

Cultures Museum Heritage Archaeology 93

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Julia Torres (photo credit: Michael Teak Photography) Amazon | Bookshop Julie Stivers is a high school librarian in North Carolina who was named the 2023 School Librarian of the Year. And you’re the only student representing that culture at your school. “My advice was not to do that.

Library 265

Library Social Justice Pedagogy Humanities 265

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Reagan Rock, 14, grew up celebrating her Italian heritage. But the high school freshman at the Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, near Cape Cod, has recently leaned in to her little-explored Irish heritage. She didn’t know her family had mixed-race heritage.

History 138

History Ancestry Heritage Project-Based Learning 138

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations.

Artifacts 90

Artifacts Heritage Archaeology Cultures 90

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS — Charles Golding looked for two things when he was researching colleges: a top economics program and a connection to his native culture. A Google search led him to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a state flagship school with prize-winning economists and a history of indigenous activism.

Cultures 145

Cultures Heritage Economics History 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

American History 145

American History History K-12 Cultures 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Last fall, Marielle Williamson, a senior at Eagle Rock High School in Los Angeles, set up a table just outside her school’s college center. Americans with Northern European heritage are least likely to be lactose intolerant, prompting some lawmakers to call the USDA’s mandatory milk program “dietary racism.” In the U.S.,

Heritage 97

Heritage Social Justice High School Government 97

Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

The mission of the Teaching Circle, envisioned by Lac Seul First Nation co-author George Kenny, is to articulate a worldview held by Indigenous cultural Insiders. I finished my secondary schooling at Queen Elizabeth High School in Sioux Lookout. John Cromarty), co-author George’s great-grandfather, signed Treaty No.

History 138

History Cultures Archaeology Tradition 138

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Yet we want our babies to be bilingual and our grade-schoolers to be surrounded by second languages — and one signal of a quality high school is how many languages it offers (and how exotic). For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. Mississippi Learning.

Heritage 95

Heritage Global Studies Advocacy High School 95

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2019

When it came time for high school, my dad made the decision to move us to the wealthier, whiter community of Bayonne, New Jersey. In my new school, I worried about how I dressed, or that maybe I was too “ghetto” for the people who had more money. This knowledge inspired and motivated me as I finished high school.

Heritage 93

Heritage History High School Humanities 93

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

When someone calls Native and Strong, the counselor answers by identifying themselves and their tribal or cultural affiliation. Related: A vexing drawback to online tribal college: Social and cultural isolation A non-Native state representative, Tina Orwall, identified the need for a tribal 988 line and advocated for its funding.

Heritage 111

Heritage Cultures Tradition Elementary School 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the most dramatic came in high school after the administration told me I couldn’t wear an Afro because it was a “fad.” universities, they often experience culture shock. These men, and many others, inspired me to be proud of my multiracial heritage. After graduating from high school, I let my hair grow out.

K-12 106

K-12 Charter School Ancestry Education 106