A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 5, 2013

They are unbiased in their approach to educate citizens on numerous topics, with education being one of them. For many misguided and misinformed reasons, politicians think that the education system in the United States is not up to par. New laws have been passed and mandates implemented with little or no input from educators.

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Sapiens

MAY 7, 2025

Should educators ever teach with materials obtained illegally or unethically? As an archaeologist who teaches at Emory and conducts research in Iraq, I have grappled over these questions and decided yes: Learning with and from these objects can help amend their problematic acquisitionso long as that recent history pervades the lesson.

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ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

.” In keeping with that belief, for sixty years the NEH has served as a vital source of support for the work of humanities organizations, educators and scholars who believe that our world is improved through research and publicly accessible programs that promote a deeper understanding of literature, history, and ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

In reading, students slid below the devastatingly low achievement levels of 2022, which many educators had hoped would be a nadir. The test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is often called the nations report card. More than two-thirds of students in the bottom 25 percent are economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model. Our responsibility is to ensure we have educated our students to capably deal with these challenges and identify the solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In exchange, residents would qualify for in-district tuition and trigger a long-term plan to build out college facilities in this rural stretch of Texas, which is positioning itself to tap into the economic boom flowing into the smaller communities nestled between Austin and San Antonio. percent — falls to about half of the state rate.

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Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This got students thinking about the political, economic, and regional tensions that led to the war while allowing them to summarize key ideas concisely an essential skill as we transitioned into the concept of sectionalism. history for decades. How did economic and political differences lead to sectionalism?

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

From political power struggles to economic inequality and environmental exploitation, an evolutionary past rooted in dominance, survival, and competition still drives much of human behavior today. The drive to secure food and territory manifests in economic competition and resource hoarding.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. ” Ms.

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TeachThought

JUNE 18, 2024

Relevant: Your objectives should match your overall educational or employment goals. History Examples of student learning goals for history learners include: Analyze the causes and effects of significant historical events. Understand the cultural, social, and economic factors in history. Time-bound: Set a deadline.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

In this second post on our series on authentic learning with virtual exchange , HP Teaching Fellow Glen Coleman shares how students are using Skype to learn about history through the lens of contemporary issues. In my view, history loses its power to open students’ minds when it does not directly connect to now.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. However, as industry and technology have evolved rapidly, inadequate higher education funding and rising costs due to inflation have affected higher education’s responsiveness. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Meanwhile, in a department meeting in a Boston-area high school, three Asian American educators “chose to be vulnerable because we needed to share.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

History class, students learned about the rise of Jacksonian Democracy and had to determine if Jackson was a highly successful president or a corrupt leader. Students in Mr. Tusa’s history class investigated the history of Europe through painting (1500-1800). History teacher Ms. Image credit: [link] In Ms. Levy’s U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

However, as the economy has grown, so has economic inequality, increasing dramatically across the country. This growing economic inequality is also widening educational achievement gaps and causing many young people to have a lack of empathy and understanding for those outside their socioeconomic peer groups.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

At the same time, questions of effectiveness and inclusion across our education system reveal deep cause for concern. Our education system is failing to educate the next generation to face the challenges of our times. Related: What do classroom conversations about race, identity and history really look like?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

In another measure of the massive economic toll of the pandemic on higher education, the resulting shutdowns have been singularly devastating to the college towns in which these campuses are situated. Roy, who is the House chair of the state legislature’s Joint Committee on Higher Education. Will history repeat?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

Education systems were built on the belief that if we filled young minds with enough knowledge, progress would follow. For most of history, survival depended on relationships on families, communities and shared responsibility. Yet in our relentless pursuit of data and efficiency, we have systematically devalued them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Teaching is inherently activist.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach.

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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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Becoming a History Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

He therefore thought the students should be considering how to categorise causes as social, economic, political and intellectual, as well as grappling with notions of short- and long-term causation. History and Literacy in Year 7, History in Practice. Retrieved from Practical Histories: [link] Haydn, T., & Stephen, A.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But nationally just under half of these students graduate from four-year institutions within six years, compared with more than two-thirds of students who receive neither Pell Grants nor direct subsidized loans, according to federal education data. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Yet such nondegree certifications aren’t new to higher education: Colleges already offer certifications in everything from digital marketing and data analytics to cosmetology. Certificate programs multiplied too, particularly after the development of continuing education units in the late nineteenth century.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Ward is unusual, too, because she had made the leap from college admissions to private school to public school, and she is trying to bring the individualized approach of private college counseling to large, economically diverse public schools where she can make a bigger difference. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 10, 2025

This past weekend, I presented at the Gifted Fair conference at the Hamilton County Educational Service Center and had the chance to attend a session on depth and complexity. Too often, when we talk about rigor in education, we focus only on making questions harder. It really got me thinking. Over time : Analyze historical progression.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. million people that is less diverse than America, and that has a history very different from our own? Why should we bother to learn from a small country of just 5.5

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2025

It is deeply rooted in our cultures, histories, geographies, and values. By incorporating music from different eras and regions, educators can create a multi-sensory learning experience that brings the past to life and fosters a deeper connection to the material. Using Music to Teach History Music acts as a historical artifact.

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C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A student, who would only be in my class for less than a month before transferring, asked it during my third year of teaching and my first year teaching a high school history class. Like many history teachers, I love the subject I teach—the events, the historical figures, and the stories they leave behind. In 1916, Charles H.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2020

The number of college students choosing to major in history has dropped dramatically over the past decade. Students are choosing disciplines like business, economics and computer science – subjects they believe are better suited to the modern job market. This story also appeared in American Public Media. And that’s a lot.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Over 40 years, she’s developed strong views on what’s wrong with American math education, but one problem has rankled her since she first walked into a classroom: unequal access to higher-level courses. one educator asked. That means challenging age-old assumptions that some people simply aren’t good at math.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. But what if he’s right?

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

One of the biggest challenges in history education is engaging students in meaningful analysis while encouraging collaboration and critical thinking. Big Idea: What lasting impact did this have on history? Timeline Construction History is all about connections. Depth & Complexity: Ethics: Was the event just or unjust?

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

economic and climate policies that have turned so many people into refugees. Students are impervious to lies when they know the history and can think critically. Mexico War: “We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God” Lesson by Bill Bigelow This interactive activity introduces students to the history and often untold story of the U.S.-Mexico

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Unemployment dropped below 5 percent and the stock market soared, posting one of the best decades in history. That’s true for college students too.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Credit: Image provided by Aimee Hollander.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. Then I got to a middle school in the same district in a neighborhood with kids who were less economically advantaged. Here’s what is missing in music education: cultural and social relevance. I struggled.

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