The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

For most of history, survival depended on relationships on families, communities and shared responsibility. The best teachers dont just deliver information; they inspire. We continue to treat relationships as secondary a soft issue compared to academic rigor or economic productivity. We do not have an intelligence crisis.

Humanities 74

Humanities Economics Professional Development High School 74

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. Sourcing where their information comes from. Big Idea: What lasting impact did this have on history? Timeline Construction History is all about connections.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History Critical Thinking History Education 52

Passion for Social Studies

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Economic Shifts The decade saw a shift towards corporate growth and the growing gap between the rich and the poor. However, it may seem overwhelming with how much information there is to include. This decade laid the groundwork for social change that continues today. This was reflected in movies, television, and music.

Cultures 130

Cultures Social Studies Economics Tradition 130

Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Since European contact, Indigenous people have struggled to protect the lands —which outsiders often describe as a vast “ outdoor museum ”—from vandalism and desecration, organizing through formal and informal channels for the protection of the Bears Ears landscape.

Cultures 107

Cultures Tradition Humanities Museum 107

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. They know that I’m there for them.

Public School 97

Public School Economics Private School High School 97

Passion for Social Studies

JUNE 30, 2024

Honestly, there are so many topics to teach in any history course. There is such a fascination when learning how these two competed for political, economic, and ideological superiority. There is such a fascination when learning how these two competed for political, economic, and ideological superiority. and the Soviet Union.

Teaching 130

Teaching History Social Studies Economics 130

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.

Anthropology 135

Anthropology Economics Sociology Archiving 135

Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We hope that, as usual, there will be no shortage of scholars of history, art and archaeologists concerned with the shared past of Rome and the Iberian Peninsula, recorded in the traces of material culture preserved to this day. Political, economic and commercial relations in the ancient times. For more information go to: [link]

Cultures 52

Cultures Tradition History Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Whatever the reason a school has to close, something needs to fill the educational, economic, and social voids created by the closure. Perry’s reflections on art also inform why we must think carefully about repurposing schools.

Economics 144

Economics Archiving Tradition Government 144

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. Kraft and his colleagues brought the tools of modern applied economics to answer the question of a teacher’s worth outside of the classroom. It’s really an underappreciated way in which teachers matter.”

Research 142

Research High School Economics Tutoring 142

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Universities have a long history of innovating and then giving away the value they create. Over the past decade, online program managers like 2U and Wiley gained the vast majority of economic value created by online education (most, if not all, of which was originally developed by universities).

Economics 143

Economics Government Tradition History 143

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.

Civic Engagement 130

Civic Engagement Education Civics K-12 130

ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The platform doesn’t make ratings or recommendations, but it does aim to provide enough information so that higher ed educators can select products for use in courses. Reviews take into account some information provided by courseware makers, but Jones-Davis says suppliers don’t have input into the design of the review rubric.

EdTech 125

EdTech Psychology Economics History 125

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This workshop invites applications from scholars studying the history and politics of labor, finance and corporations, racial capitalism, political ecology, economic regulation and the fiscal state.

Research 39

Research Political Science Economics History 39

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This caustic combination of biased or incomplete information and a lack in public awareness very easily fuels damaging stereotypes of Asians as perpetually and dangerously foreign and “taking over” what are seen as limited resources, especially during times of social and economic instability and widening gaps in wealth and income inequality.

K-12 144

K-12 Ancestry Education Geography 144

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

The coronavirus crisis has created a moment in history in which educators and administrators can shift the narrative and reality for an entire community. There’s so much information and so many personal stories about how the coronavirus has negatively affected the global community from health, economic, psychological and social perspectives.

Psychology 131

Psychology History Leadership Economics 131

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Subjects like this provide “a more responsible and informed approach that is about creating justice and about righting the wrongs of the past,” she says. Will history repeat? Andrea Queeley teaches her course about societies and cultures of the Caribbean at Florida International University. I don’t think so.”.

Anthropology 144

Anthropology Social Science Sociology Humanities 144

ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

To help early stage edtechs entering the market navigate this unique point in history, we have developed the 2022 EdTech Startup Guide. To help early stage edtechs entering the market navigate this unique point in history, we have developed the 2022 EdTech Startup Guide.

EdTech 145

EdTech History Economics Education 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It’s a threat to the nation’s global economic competitiveness and national security. The economic ramifications of this in the United States are twofold: first, on individuals’ job prospects and earnings potential; and second, on the country’s productivity and competitiveness. It calculated that had the U.S.

Economics 145

Economics High School Psychology Middle School 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

College attendance among Black students dropped a whopping 8 percent during the summer of 2020, compared with the summer of 2019, according to the first “ Stay Informed ” report published in September 2020 by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Will history repeat? Now the proof is starting to come in.

Tradition 143

Tradition Economics Research History 143

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Student achievement at 80 schools in low-income areas that provided parents with information on how to support their children’s education was no better than at schools that didn’t run a parent-engagement program, according to a November 2020 analysis by four U.S. based economists.

Elementary School 132

Elementary School Research Economics Government 132

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnsrud: Educators can stay informed about future workforce trends, including emerging jobs and highly sought-after skills. School leaders are increasingly turning to organizations like the World Economic Forum and analyzing data on the most in-demand skills for the next five years.

Advocacy 129

Advocacy Project-Based Learning Economics Tradition 129

Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Frayer Model worked especially well for students to internalize the information and make it more manageable. The Thick Slide provided a perfect opportunity for students to creatively showcase their understanding and articulate the big picture of why exploration was such a significant period in European history.

Primary Sources 128

Primary Sources Artifacts Geography Lesson Plan 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school. He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history. Reading through each letter at the start of the year informs me of what motivates each student.

American History 125

American History High School Cultures History 125

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 144

Ancestry Anthropology Humanities Museum 144

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Learners can more effectively assimilate and interrogate new concepts by connecting new information to prior knowledge, extending ideas beyond initial comprehension, and pinpointing areas of challenge or uncertainty. Extend: Encourage them to speculate on how a different outcome in history might have affected the present.

Geography 133

Geography Economics Critical Thinking Cultures 133

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.

Economics 111

Economics Government History Humanities 111

ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. However, since the ’70s, schools dropped Home Economics as they became driven more by employers’ demands, not human needs. It is not difficult to slip up and go from victor to victim in a few hours.

Humanities 106

Humanities Teaching Economics Government 106

ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

To find out, EdSurge interviewed Terri Hasseler, a professor in the Department of History, Literature, and the Arts at Bryant University in Rhode Island. If you're not doing well in the classroom, you lose access to the information that would prepare you. I mean, I think they're very aware of the economic reality.

Economics 133

Economics K-12 EdTech Classroom Management 133

Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

At the American Museum of Natural History, a 2001 digital representation of the human genome presents color coding for the four chemical components of DNA. and other colonized lands, racism has influenced people’s access to nutritious food, education, economic opportunities, health care, safety, and more.

Ancestry 145

Ancestry Education Humanities K-12 145

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. Shomade of Emory University. The post Lucien Ferguson Receives the 2024 Edward S.

History 52

History Political Science Economics Tradition 52

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.

Education 131

Education High School Government Economics 131

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The students had 5 minutes per slide to process the information and build their slides, using the provided keywords as a guide. I also had Claude add author names and context since the textbook didn’t bother to provide that crucial information. Thin Slide: Chunking the Reading Just like Monday, we used the Thin Slide template.

Primary Sources 126

Primary Sources Geography History Lesson Plan 126

ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

The need for such varied skills has only gotten more pronounced in recent years, she argues, in these times of “political division, racial violence, extreme rhetoric, intensifying storms, mass shootings, economic crises, global pandemics and more.”

Economics 127

Economics History Humanities Cultures 127

Anthropology.net

JANUARY 21, 2024

Phase II, from AD 100 to 350, witnessed exponential population growth, attributed to economic opportunities and, intriguingly, environmental shifts linked to the Xitle volcano eruption. Genetic Tapestry: Haplogroups A2f2, A2ae, A2d1, B2c1, and D1i The genomic information unveiled precise haplogroups: A2f2, A2ae, A2d1, B2c1, and D1i.

Archaeology 97

Archaeology Economics Humanities History 97

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Foster’s intelligence and dedication put people into space during one of the most tumultuous times in our nation’s history. Information. The initiative works with businesses, investors, and other stakeholders to promote economic growth in the North Huntsville area, particularly in underrepresented communities. Trade Industry.

Charter School 108

Charter School Advocacy Economics Government 108