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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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2022

In order to create the systemic changes required to realize racial justice, we must transform ourselves into students and recommit to learning how our shared history influences modern practices. My organization, Facing History and Ourselves, and many others have been doing this necessary work.

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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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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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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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C3 Teachers

APRIL 10, 2022

I recently zoomed with Nick S tamoulacatos, Supervisor of Social Studies at Syracuse City School District and one of the writers on the article “Countering the Past of Least Resistance” in that latest Social Education. You can address history, economics, sociology, you know all the facets of social studies. Thank you, Nick.

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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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Political Science Now

AUGUST 5, 2024

Citation from the Award Committee: In “The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights,” Lucien Ferguson writes a compelling account of the civil rights movement and the constitutional protections on which it depends through the lens of caste. APSA thanks the committee members for their service: Dr. Christine L.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Child care workers nationwide are worried about their own health, that of their families and their short- and long-term economic survival. Pearsall’s exhaustion is shared by providers across the country worried about their own health, that of their families and their short- and long-term economic survival. Their trauma has increased.”.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The Hechinger Report California has been a leader in prison education programs, starting with a 2014 rule authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated. Offering prison education programs is key to community safety.” I’m trying,” she tells them.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I often tell audiences during keynotes and workshops that my role isn’t to tell anyone what to do, but instead to get educators to think critically about what they do. The fact for many in education is that we teach the way we were taught and lead the way we were led. Initially, this can be a tough pill to swallow.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

history designed to maintain white supremacy that receive little attention in corporate curricula. The Zinn Education Project provides free resources to teach outside the textbook about the Tulsa Massacre and the continuing history of institutionalized racism and displacement. This is one of countless massacres in U.S.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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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

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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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

The stakes are high when it comes to equity in computer science education and in the broader tech industry. That’s not just because tech is a key to economic opportunity in America these days, but it’s also because of the social good that comes when everyone has a chance to have a seat at the table to build a better future.

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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

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

JUNE 26, 2023

If asked to assess the current posture of higher education leaders across the nation, it would be reasonable to describe it as a “defensive crouch.” English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences.

Sociology 93

Sociology Education Political Science Pedagogy 93

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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Economics High School Public School History 97

TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. This blog post explores the critical role of social studies in shaping engaged, informed citizens and how the C3 Framework helps elevate the rigor of social studies education.

Social Studies 52

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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.

History 52

History Social Studies History Education Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That’s the case with the most recent results from a key global education test, the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic.

Economics 136

Economics Elementary School History High School 136

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Students generated a list of demographic factors presumed to influence voting choices—age, gender, ethnic group, occupation, education level, religious affiliation. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education Some changes in our political system have produced results no one intended.

Humanities 52

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Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

As we stride into an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, it’s high time we re-evaluate our education system. Let’s dive into the areas we need to reconsider to ensure the viability of education in this new AI-infused world. Exams, in particular, only measure what a student remembers on that particular day.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century. But some district pairs revealed far higher levels of economic segregation, like Frankenmuth and Saginaw, whose poverty rates differ by about 45 percentage points. Its poverty rate is 50 percent.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Over the past year, we’ve amplified the voices of educators as they navigated the fallout from the pandemic through our Voices of Change project, creating opportunities for educators to reflect, share and learn from one another through journalism, storytelling and research.

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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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Director of Education Learning and Advocacy, Adobe To explore this challenge, EdSurge sat down with Brian Johnsrud , the director of education learning and advocacy at Adobe. EdSurge: How can educators prepare students for the future workforce and foster in-demand skills such as creativity and adaptability?

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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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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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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The very notion that one could segregate people into groups that roughly approximate ancestry assumes those ancestral groups have remained separate throughout history. The reason lies deep in human history. Fundamental to this work is an understanding that, genetically speaking , human races do not exist.

Ancestry 86

Ancestry Anthropology Humanities Museum 86

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.

Humanities 141

Humanities Economics History Psychology 141