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.

Cultures 109

Cultures Education K-12 Government 109

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. I’ve developed a very strong opinion about my undergraduate teacher training, and also what teachers typically enter the public education system ready to do. My classes included all varieties of instruments. I played in ensembles.

Cultures 111

Cultures Education Middle School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. About 95 percent of Algodones' students are Native American, and the school strives to affirm their identity.

Elementary School 95

Elementary School Charter School Cultures High School 95

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

History 104

History Teaching Sociology Oral History 104

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Sallie Holloway Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia Recently, EdSurge spoke with Sallie Holloway , the Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools. Why is it important for students to be AI ready?

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K-12 Public School Leadership Teaching 99

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.

American History 108

American History History Teaching Primary Sources 108

Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

David Sapir, a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, West Africanist, and scholar of folklore and ethnographic photography, died August 31, 2024, at the age of 91. After his father’s death in 1939 when he was 6, the family moved to Greenwich Village, New York City, where he attended public school PS 81.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

There, thousands of Black children began going to schools built expressly for them, where they learned to read and write after decades of being denied the right of literacy. The Sea Islands experiment, as it was known, marked a positive moment in the fraught history of Black education, notes education law expert Derek W.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Ron DeSantis or the College Board to curate and disburse Black history to us. As despicable and harmful as the Florida governor’s recent rejection of the pilot Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course was, DeSantis does not get to decide when and how we learn Black history. DeSantis’ playbook is plagiarized.

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History American History Social Justice Leadership 112

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. New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum.

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History Heritage K-12 American History 106

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform.

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History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 107

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 White abandonment of the public system impoverished the public schools that served Clarksdale’s African American majority. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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Charter School History Library Public School 108

ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

When my class wrote a book last year about artifacts of New Orleans culture and what they mean to them, a third of the class wrote about food. Despite inheriting this culinary and cultural legacy, my students find themselves in a tough position during the school day for breakfast and lunch. I grew up in central Pennsylvania.

Cultures 81

Cultures Artifacts Charter School Library 81

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. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. And they aren’t the only ones advocating the adoption of such curricula.

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Teaching Elementary School Social Justice American History 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.

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Lesson Plan Private School Cultures Public School 141

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

As a former public school parent and a white woman with a white son who performs well on the metrics that get students into the most selective public schools, I know the peer pressure that white parents feel to get their children into these high-status schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This is the demographic of parents with the widest mismatch between their stated ideals and their actions when it comes to public school choice. This paradox is too often rationalized in terms of test scores and shared perceptions of schools that enroll many students of color and have even slightly lower test scores.

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Middle School Sociology Public School Cultures 137

ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

of public school educators are of Asian descent. Everett Collection/Shutterstock At the same time, I also recognize that my privileged experience in Hawaiʻi was forged by settler culture , the effects of which still persist in the state educational system. I sheepishly expressed gratitude while struggling with such praise.

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Ancestry Heritage Cultures History 135

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“Voice, agency, and influence are ours to give and receive,” says Debora Collins, assistant superintendent for student learning at Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia. Matthew Wheelock Innovation Program Director, University of Virginia Curry School of Education. This area of Virginia was a hub of the Confederacy.

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K-12 Public School Elementary School Cultures 117

Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

So far, so good; but the third political problem facing the integration plan seemed irresolvable: what would happen to the well-loved Reid School, which had provided both elementary and secondary education for all black students in town since visionary educator Charles Reid became principal in 1914? [2] 7 and 8, JulyAugust 1956], p.

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Education American History Junior High History 54

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

The film is garnering increased attention amidst the nation’s outrage over a history of murders and threats visited on African Americans, outside of any semblance of due process. District of Columbia Public Schools Teacher of the Year Ashley Kearney sees it this way: “Students can drive the content with their interest.

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Elementary School Professional Development History Public School 132

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Too often, Black students are forced to conform to white culture and be subjected to repeated incidents of anti-Blackness in order to receive an education. That one vote has left kids unprotected and exposed to an increasingly racist environment at school. What’s happening in Newberg, Oregon, isn’t an anomaly.

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Advocacy Public School Cultures History 133

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. Illinois has developed culturally responsive teaching and leading standards with the goal of attracting and retaining more teachers of color.

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High School Cultures Leadership Public School 145

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.

Local History 112

Local History Geography Education Policy Public School 112

ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

Lander teaches history and civics at this large public school in Massachusetts, and she says one of the most important strategies is to find ways to bring out her students’ stories in the classroom. But these are strengths that the students themselves don’t always see as assets in our formal school system.

Teaching 119

Teaching Civics History Public School 119

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. If we can help these students reframe their relationship to the process of learning in high school, we have the opportunity to enhance their social mobility — and, quite possibly, ensure the survival of higher education.

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Tradition Tutoring High School Cultures 138

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

As a history major in college and former Social Studies teacher, I am aware of the racial abuses that have permeated our nation’s history and continue to be present. Books: School leadership for social justice. Books: Culturally-relevant pedagogy. Say their names , Chicago Public Schools. Books: Anti-racism.

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Social Justice Leadership Pedagogy Social Studies 109

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2020

As director of the Office of Black Student Achievement (OBSA) within Minneapolis Public Schools, I know my state has one of the worst achievement gaps in the country. More than 13,000 black students attend our schools, and many are once again struggling with hurt, heartache and trauma. Photo by Kim Palmer).

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Public School History Cultures Education 142

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. Fernandez, principal, Cambridge Street Upper School.

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K-12 Cultures Library Middle School 111

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

My colleague and I teach the same group of 11th grade students in our Title I high school in Oakland; she teaches history, and I teach them science. While 77% of public schools have some type of cellphone regulation during classroom time, our high school does not.

Cultures 125

Cultures Teaching High School History 125

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.

Teaching 143

Teaching EdTech K-12 Professional Development 143

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.

Charter School 144

Charter School Geography Public School Private School 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

She was not alone: A December report revealed that nearly one in five Nashville public school students was failing at least one class. Students may start to see themselves as a “B” student in math or a “D” student in history. In some of the 16,800 school districts across the U.S., I believe this is wrong.

Psychology 137

Psychology Tradition History Humanities 137

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. One school district stands out as a model of implementation: Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools (LCPS). Kalama Intermediate School.

Education 104

Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

I attended the Jefferson County Public Schools — which encompass Louisville and the county — from first grade to senior year, when I graduated from Atherton High School, located in a mostly white neighborhood. Sarah: And now each school is supposed to have a racial equity plan? Delquan: Yes. It’s not.

Economics 144

Economics Elementary School History High School 144

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

Inclusive Curriculum 104

Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 104