Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

By August 2024 she would complete her degree in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, giving her time for such an endeavor. Most voters focused on a point she raised as she introduced herself: that no one then serving on the Dublin School Board had experience as a K-12 classroom teacher.

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Government Controversial Topics American History Civics 96

ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Lunchtime at high school in the United States is an experience so culturally ingrained that I would wager every person who went through this school system has a vivid image of what it entails; some of the cliches that come to mind are food fights, awkward journeys across the cafeteria or eating lunch alone in the bathroom.

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K-12 Cultures High School History 105

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2019

After that, the rest is history. The future of work requires new skills, and it is up to K-12 education to lead the charge in this area. For me, the push I needed came from Ken Royal, who, after hearing what we were doing at New Milford High School and then visiting, stated unequivocally that I had to share our story.

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K-12 Leadership Pedagogy History 240

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2022

In the past year, a culture war has taken over education. As the latest Ipsos polling suggests , unlike Republican culture war legislators, most parents feel that schools do a “good job” keeping them informed about the curriculum; less than a quarter say that they have too little say about it. percent to 16.1 And the number is rising.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The discovery of an Epigravettian layer at Grotta della Lea now provides a new chapter in this long history, capturing a time when small bands of hunter-gatherers were adapting to life at the edge of the Last Glacial Maximum. Scientific Reports, 12 (1), 5609. Related Research Romandini, M., Marciani, G., Benazzi, S., Ronchitelli, A.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

But at the summer camp these students are attending, Native teachers and leaders are leveraging culture-based activities like double ball to engage students more deeply in exploring their Native identities and wellness goals. Culture-based education provides a path to healing.

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Cultures Education K-12 Government 108

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S.

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American History History Teaching Primary Sources 112

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I never took a course in African American history during that time, the late 1980s and early 90s, despite being enveloped in Blackness in my neighborhoods, churches and schools. My knowledge of Black history came as sprinkling rain, a paltry amount that was never enough to have a significant impact.

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Heritage Cultures K-12 American History 98

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up.

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History Heritage K-12 American History 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 136

Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

The Kentucky Valley Education Cooperative (KVEC) provides free, competency-based flexible, professional learning opportunities for rural K-12 educators via micro-credentials. Funding is being used to develop a digital badging and pathway system that will interface with the K-12 digital badging and pathways system.

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K-12 Professional Development Economics Learning Science 156

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The program trains educators at K-12 schools whose students include Native children on different ways they can introduce young people to programming, robotics and coding. But computer science lessons like the ones at Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School are relatively rare.

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K-12 Heritage Middle School Cultures 130

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While data science isn’t a new subject, there’s been growing interest recently in helping students — in both K-12 and higher ed — gain data science skills. In the last three years, 17 states have added some sort of data science education course to their K-12 offerings, Drozda said. Subscribe today!

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K-12 Social Studies Lesson Plan Middle School 132

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: ATLANTA – As more and more attempts to restrict discussion of gender and race in K-12 schools across the country take hold, where do the ideas go?

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K-12 Social Justice American History History 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. Here’s what is missing in music education: cultural and social relevance. But being culturally responsive means teaching music where kids are, and with what interests them. I played in ensembles. Incredibly traditional.

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Cultures Education Middle School Tradition 111

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. and marched to Chinatown on March 12, 2021. When they look back on that day, many remember feeling very alone. schools in recent years. on March 21, 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Earlier, the complete misrepresentation and misunderstanding of critical race theory signaled a disregard for the Black community and contempt for the importance of students learning about all people and cultures. Who suffers the most?

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Civic Engagement Education Civics K-12 130

Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Efforts to enhance these relationships should include culturally responsive teaching and creating a sense of belonging to ensure that each student can participate at the fullest level. Be laser focused on building strong and lasting relationships among students and teachers, students and their peers, and teachers and parents/caregivers.

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Teaching EdTech K-12 Professional Development 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. The move toward cultural proficiency, also known as culturally relevant education or culturally responsive teaching, has been gaining momentum in urban school districts throughout the country. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. The post Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Cultures Teaching High School History 101

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

To help Native communities heal from that trauma, the report recommends an explicit federal policy of cultural revitalization, one that supports the work of Indigenous peoples and tribes to preserve and strengthen their languages and cultures. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

Teaching 144

Teaching K-12 Heritage Government 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

“I had been taught, in school, through cultural osmosis, that the flag wasn’t really ours, that our history as a people began with enslavement and that we had contributed little to this great nation.”. Legislators, history activists and those who want to project a positive view of the U.S. Learning the sordid details of U.S.

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History Museum Social Studies Economics 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2022

will ultimately shift the country’s power base: Nearly one in three Americans say they are extremely or very concerned that native-born Americans are losing “economic, political and cultural influence” in this country because of the growing population of immigrants. racism and global colonization. There is only one way: teaching anti-racism.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 113

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. Schools superintendent Dennis Dupree came to the city 12 years ago, promising innovation.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2015

The Learn Everywhere award is for an organization that supports learning outside of the K-12 system through community and cultural resources, technology, and/or open platforms. Winners will be notified in October and invited to attend our gala celebration on November 20 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

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K-12 Museum Library Leadership 126

ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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Civics Education Civic Engagement K-12 129

ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For years, the global learning platform Kahoot has been growing its foothold in the K-12 space through acquisitions and add-ons to its popular quiz platform. It’s the latest example of an established K-12 education company moving into the early childhood space. And no, it’s not more quizzes.

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EdTech K-12 Tutoring Research 145

ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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K-12 Pedagogy American History History 113

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Florida is doing its best to tilt the scales and shut down important, much-needed discussions of race, slavery, stolen lands, and undeniable history that have led us to where we are as a society today.” He added a dire warning: “What just happened in Florida … is coming your way. There’s nothing objectional.

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K-12 History American History Psychology 130

ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. How does this play out in a K-12 setting?

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Research Psychology K-12 Artifacts 140

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.

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Cultures Heritage K-12 Museum 52

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Students were prompted to find images that represent contemporary pop culture, and then to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to create their own Warhol-inspired work. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection. By Maylin, Age 5.

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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In December, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture described the predicament as “extremely disconcerting.” Our K-8 school scored in the top 10 percent of the state’s public schools on a comprehensive evaluation that considers proficiency, growth and other key indicators. But there is some hope for Finland’s education system.

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K-12 Charter School Government History 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2024

Schools nationwide celebrate Black History Month enthusiastically, yet voice concerns about whether Pride Month should be recognized. As we approach decisions, we must ask ourselves not only what measurable outcomes our choices will achieve, but also how they will change our culture. Does that sound hard?

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Charter School K-12 Library Cultures 114

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

For most of history, women had very little educational opportunity, and the college spots available to them were in gender-segregated schools with fewer resources. And gender bias still lingers in American education , from pre-K through college. Changing a culture will not be easy, but it starts with talking about the problem.

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K-12 Cultures Economics High School 114

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2020

Our nation’s Founding Fathers had a pluralistic view of K-12 schooling. Related: A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South. Related: ‘Hamilton,’ cultural relevance and the quest to personalize learning. A recent U.S.

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Private School K-12 Charter School Education 102

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

history has resulted in persistent unequal access to opportunity. David Quinn is an assistant professor of education in the K-12 education policy concentration at the USC Rossier School of Education. The systemic oppression of Black men and women throughout U.S.

Education 118

Education Inclusive Curriculum Archiving K-12 118