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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. We get them in high school, not when they’re little,” Vázquez says. “We But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

In 2020, 44 percent of high school youth reported having no source of supportive relationships either adults or peers, a reduction by half from a decade earlier. For most of history, survival depended on relationships on families, communities and shared responsibility. for adults and children. We have a relational crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

Rogers High School, two weeks before graduation last spring. Nationally, 52 percent of low-income high school graduates immediately enrolled in college in 2014, compared to 81 percent of high-income students. Related: Can $10 million build the ideal high school? Rogers High School.

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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

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.”. Related: The cost of going back to school keeps rising. Slavery was instrumental in the formation of the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

. — When California schools closed on March 13 in response to the coronavirus, college counselor Brad Ward didn’t know it would be the last day she’d see many of her students at Terra Linda High School. At Menlo, her days revolved around helping students curate their high school careers and lists of colleges.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As a high-school senior in New Jersey, Ernesto Reyes Velasco couldn’t envision himself taking the leap to become an independent college student. MONTCLAIR, N.J. — Neither of his parents, who are immigrants from Mexico, had gone to college. He didn’t have close friends as examples. Money was tight.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2025

It is deeply rooted in our cultures, histories, geographies, and values. Using Music to Teach History Music acts as a historical artifact. Explore Songs that Shaped History : From spirituals to jazz to patriotic songs that rallied our nation, students can examine how music has spread ideas and influenced major events.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

What we cherish often has nothing to do with the biology or Bronze Age history we learned in the classroom. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift For the lucky among us who have formed connections with a teacher, a school counselor or a coach, their value can seem immeasurable.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. Professor Joseph Postell told the history of our political party system.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. math scores recorded in the history of the PISA math test, which began in 2003. The tests were administered in 2022.) In math, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

Paola De La Torre Macias and Brian Torales, who started college this fall already having completed remediation courses while still in high school. Stephanie Lewis and one of her students both cried when he graduated in the spring from South Pittsburg High School in Tennessee, where she teaches English.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a student at Poughkeepsie High School in upstate New York and then as a high school educator in the Bronx, I’ve observed, both inside and outside the classroom, that many of us develop unconscious biases. However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

And that’s a major reason why middle and high school teachers don’t assign more writing to their students. Even an efficient high school English teacher who can read and evaluate an essay in 20 minutes would spend 3,000 minutes, or 50 hours, grading if she’s teaching six classes of 25 students each.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Retrieved from [link] The stats on school staffing might seem like a violation of the laws of supply and demand. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2016

Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional and required the integration of those schools that were segregating students. The post From Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

This could be a watershed year in the history of American public education. When the pandemic struck, districts around the country, especially those in low-income areas, were still recovering from economic losses sustained during the 2008 recession, when nearly 300,000 teachers and other school staff were laid off.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In upstate New York, a high school English teacher said, “I remember driving into school not wanting to go in, being really sad and just crying. I thought to myself, ‘I don't have anyone that I could talk to in my entire school that has any idea about what's going on right now.’” on March 21, 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. How can we expect our students to become engaged citizens when they lack basic knowledge of how our country works and its history? We are not setting our children up for success. In addition, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Dixie Ross has taught every level of math offered in Texas public high schools and trained hundreds of AP calculus teachers in summer institutes. So did worries that high schools are placing too much emphasis on calculus and not enough on practical skills like data analysis and statistics for an increasingly high-tech world.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

We’re more focused on money,” said Adon, 17, a senior at a public high school here. Lynnel Reed, head guidance counselor, University Park Campus School. And even if young men resolve to go to college later, he said, history shows that “their chances of actually coming back to higher ed are probably slim to none.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

In contrast, to its west, Saginaw City School District is home to nearly 5,200 students, 81 percent of them students of color. This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century. Its poverty rate is about 5 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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. Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country.

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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? Fund schools equitably on the basis of need.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It’s a scene that is replicated across the seven elementary schools and two high schools in this agricultural community of around 13,500 in California’s Central Valley. Students in a transitional kindergarten class at Washington Elementary, a K-8 school in the Lindsay Unified district, work in small groups.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Joan Koven, an educational consultant outside Philadelphia who helps high school seniors get into college, was at the meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, or NACAC, in September, when the ethics code was changed in response to Justice Department pressure. Will history repeat?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If I was still a high school senior, I wouldn’t come here,” she says. If I was still a high school senior,” said Witherspoon, who is scheduled to graduate in the spring, “I wouldn’t come here.”. Eastern Kentucky University shut down theater, economics and other majors. Credit: Ji Stribling for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But North Carolina State University is taking a different approach to teaching the subject, said Rachel Levy, executive director of the school’s new Data Science Academy. State launched the academy two years ago to introduce the use of the subject across disciplines, from biology and art to English and history.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Demographics are working against institutions in parts of the country as the number of teens — and thus the number of high school graduates — drops. Many colleges and universities have a history of mismanaging their finances, increasing spending even as enrollments fell or going deeply into debt to construct new buildings.

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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. Sixteen percent of high school seniors say they’ll take a gap year. Will history repeat? Related: Biggest gap year ever?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Without advice from a counselor, D’naysha Griggs says she would not have known how to talk about her work history and family obligations in her college applications. Griggs is a senior at Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics high school. Richard Weissbourd, senior lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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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. The states’ actions provide a smoke screen for efforts to limit discussion of race and racism and disenfranchise the Black community.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. He asks : What are the projections for the size of the middle class assuming current economic and demographic trends? This question comes from Kieran Hanrahan.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. that pay college tuition for adults. ? After her pay rose by just $1.60

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