Cultures History Education Public School 
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 27, 2020
history, education leaders have started to reckon with how to comprehensively teach history with an antiracism lens. Colleges are holding professional development online events for educators on how to reimagine education with racial justice in mind. Katie Cryan Leary, principal, Magnolia Elementary, Seattle.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 4, 2022
It was “ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark ” that educated me on the real-life effects of the military drafts during the Vietnam War. “ I’ve been raised in a culture that celebrates motion pictures but fails to deploy their power in classrooms. Related: What do classroom conversations about race, identity and history really look like?
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Our nation has real problems to solve, and many of the solutions will reside in our emerging youth populations of color; but to tap that potential, our schools need to better reflect their histories, experiences and needs. Providing better civics and history education and job training opportunities to our youth is an essential start.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 28, 2021
Indeed, the local Civic Learning Plans its supporters propose would just further fragment the history our students learn. And that in time will weaken any hope of having a shared cultural understanding of what it means to be American. Is American history education the problem? Related: Most Mississippians can’t pass U.S.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
And in one IB history class, she said a teacher had students pick cotton seeds off cotton plants to demonstrate the efficiency of the cotton gin, in an attempt to include multiple perspectives in his class. Redrafting of the history standards started in 2021 under the administration of Ralph Northam, the former Democratic governor.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 25, 2021
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. And while it’s clear that schools matter, the size of that influence is debatable. The pathology is white supremacy,” he said.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” All of this reached a boiling point last April, when Pennridge hired a brand-new consultancy firm called Vermilion Education.
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