The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

They heard the talk in high school that UGA was a “white school,” and now they are finding out what that means. Black students represent just 7 percent of its student population (or about 2,000 undergrads), in a state where black students are 34 percent of all high school graduates. Then they can get really rude.”.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And how is that impacting the choices young people are making about what to do after high school? That movie, which everyone in Silicon Valley and in the culture at large was talking about, was “The Social Network,” depicting the contentious creation of Facebook. And he argues that there’s a danger in Thiel’s argument. “The

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

As high school seniors preoccupy themselves with college decisions, graduation parties and summer jobs, some may be grappling with a nagging thought in the back of their minds: Am I smart enough to succeed at the University of X? The UMBC Meyerhoff Scholars Program, with only 200 students, has changed the culture of a campus of 11,000.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The trailer is just down the road from Hickory, a town Reader’s Digest named one of the 10 best places in America to raise a family and that business magazines have hailed for its entrepreneurial climate. Miramontes graduated from high school with a near-perfect 3.93 That’s where Maria Cantu earns a living cleaning houses.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Arlee High School is a public school on the Flathead Reservation. Six tribes, including CKST, have sued the state of Montana for failing to implement its Indian Education for All curriculum in public schools over the past few decades, despite a mandate to do so. Rachel Glickhouse coordinated partnerships.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

But even if fewer than half of American adults are college graduates, earning a bachelor’s degree feels now like a necessity to many young people — because college is the new high school, practically obligatory for anyone who wants to get ahead, or at least not fall behind, in this globalized world. He was 20. “I So does U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But the same article also mentioned that in 2013, two teachers from Manhattan Public School 59 had incorporated the killing and whipping of slaves in a math lesson on subtraction and multiplication. Cummings’ slavery lesson wasn’t only cruel; it was redundant. Black students already know what it’s like to be dominated.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As the co-founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and editor and research director of the organization’s magazine, The Crisis, he published his opposition to the unequal treatment of Black Americans and promoted Black nationalism. Black community.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

You will hold regular (a minimum of five) meetings based on a collective reading of Teaching for Black Lives and a recent issue of Rethinking Schools magazine. The Portland (Oregon) study group of early childhood educators assessed their home visitation questions to make them more culturally relevant.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Listen to the interview with Julia Torres, Cicely Lewis, and Julie Stivers ( transcript ): Sponsored by Alpaca and Scholastic Magazines+ This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. And you’re the only student representing that culture at your school. “My advice was not to do that.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2021

Whiteness, meaning the institution that upholds white culture and affirms white ways of being as superior over other ways, seeks to sustain and protect itself. To question this positioning in academia and schools is seen as blasphemous, disrespectful and anti-intellectual. That’s how it survives.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Jonathan Johnson, a former teacher in New Orleans, thinks there’s a quicker way for more African-American youth to reach high paying jobs in this city of sharp racial and economic divides. Schools interested in anything besides college still aren’t seen as rigorous. Running a high school like the Google campus can be tricky, though.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Starting when he was in middle school, I could have taken a stronger role in overseeing his schoolwork by editing his papers, re-teaching certain subjects and hiring tutors in others. In high school, we could have hired one-on-one tutors to prepare him for standardized tests. I could have checked his online gradebooks daily.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass High School in New Orleans, wanted her students to have the same transformative experience she did on a high school trip to Ghana. This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Towana Pierre-Floyd, principal of Frederick A.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Still, advocates for SEL say they recognize the risks that come with being the latest front in the classroom culture wars. When faced with parental and political pushback to programs, schools often scale back or eliminate them, just as the Canyons district did. If the backlash continues, it’s likely more schools will follow.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Four years later, carrying the memories of missing recess because I couldn’t complete my multiplication table chart fast enough, and being pulled out of classes to attend speech therapy for my lisp, I entered my first year of high school. By then, I had developed a passion for music. I don’t know.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. This story also appeared in Belt Magazine “You all know that I call your kids my kids, and they won’t stop being my kids,” Gordon says, wrapping up the meeting.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She was recognized early on as a precocious child, and she skipped a grade in elementary school on her way to graduating summa cum laude from Classical High School. In 1975, she was already featured in People Magazine as one of “12 Great U.S. She earned her BA from Smith College in 1963 and an MA from Harvard in 1964.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Chris Tackett, a political campaign finance expert, tweeted a photo of a man in a hoodie leaving the high school library in Granbury ISD pulling a dolly of cardboard boxes labeled “Krause’s List.” The school board voted to remove The Nation from school libraries. Many juniors and seniors in high school also attended.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

They’ve become part of the latest wave of first-generation students who arrive at elite schools carrying the burden of great expectations, along with the promise of a very different future — if they can persevere. Related: Ivy-League Degree: Now what? “I They just fist-bump to the music.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

The Tupelo School District, in the northwest corner of the state, has found the approach to be effective. And it encourages teachers to connect whatever content they are teaching to the culture and traditions of ELL students. After he left that job, Cartagena worked as a bus driver and janitor for the county schools.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

” While this piece was written primarily for adult education, an adaptation for middle and high school teachers is included at the end of the document. context and shared cultural history. 972 Magazine is an independent magazine run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Last week, a video was released of Keanon Lowe, a football and track coach at Parkrose High School in Portland, Oregon, disarming a would-be student attacker, hugging him until authorities arrived. Sports Illustrated magazine narrated the events in its August 26, 2019 issue. Nobody cares about me!” Granados-Diaz] screamed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Recently, the right-wing magazine The Federalist published a warning to parents in the form of a conspiratorial, unhinged and poorly supported op-ed titled, “ If The Left Ends Parent Rights, You Might Need A License To Raise Your Own Child.”

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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. It’s baked into aspects of our culture.” Public schools must teach students about democratic struggles over suffrage and civil rights and the nation’s history of white supremacy.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I got the chance to connect with high school students in my breakout room and it was a refreshing reminder that the Black Freedom Struggle is not only being taught despite truth-teaching being criminalized, but also it is being learned and put into practice! Don’t miss upcoming sessions — register now. Thanks, T. Muhammad: Yeah.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

One of the first images to greet visitors to Taylor High School in Cleves, Ohio, is a mural dedicated to Malala Yousafzai , the Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize recipient, who was shot in the head because she believes girls should be able to go to school. UNESCO relationship.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Her face solemn, Kati Preston held up a postcard-sized, black-and-white photograph, moving it slowly to face the 150 high school students spread across the lecture hall in New Hampshire. The rapt assembly of students and teachers at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro listened in silence.

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