The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year. The hope is that if kids can become proficient in reading early on, they’ll be much more likely to succeed in all of their subjects, from science to social studies, because students need to know how to read to learn the material.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

. “… many Black families are choosing charter schools, where achievement gaps between Black and white students are closing, and longstanding systemic racism is being dismantled by an underlying belief that all children from all backgrounds are deserving and capable of academic success.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” Curtis Chapin, a Crew advisor and language arts teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, reviews the “Crew Contract” signed by each member. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Twenty-nine percent of Wiseburn’s economically disadvantaged black students passed the math test – the largest percentage of any district serving 100 or more low-income black children. But now they are asking me ‘can you come in and watch my social studies lesson?’”.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

To promote student learning and achievement, research indicates that teacher advancement systems should compensate teachers for their expert contributions, particularly in economically disadvantaged schools where teaching challenges tend to be greater (Accomplished California Teachers, 2012). 2008): Successful Collaboration.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the State Education Department had rejected 35% of the social studies textbooks submitted for review because of leftist content. The DeSantis administration objects to any references to “social justice” or negative references to capitalism. history and world history courses.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Ingersoll predicts that when the pandemic ends and the economy improves, there could be an upsurge in teacher turnover and retirements, pointing to research on behavior during economic downturns that found that many workers are reluctant to quit their jobs and might postpone retirement until the crisis is over. But some people can’t survive.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. We talked about the economic impact of slavery to go from being money to trying to catch up with everyone else, who was given that opportunity of reaching this ‘American dream,’ and having 300-400 years of being someone else’s money.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2019

Teaching about climate change got a boost six years ago with the release of the Next Generation Science Standards, which instruct teachers to introduce students to climate change and its human causes beginning in middle school. The social studies curriculum at Piedmont Intermediate emphasizes human interactions with the environment.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

educators — the lasting social and economic impact of COVID-19 and America’s ongoing racial reckoning; teacher burnout, trauma and mental health; low pay and low morale in the profession; public scapegoating of teachers; and the incessant escalation of demands on their time with shrinking professional resources.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The elementary she went to next, Upper Little Caillou, had replaced another nearby school that had shuttered for the same reasons a few years earlier. Lacache Middle School, which Izzy currently attends, sits along the bayou on one of the lowest-lying tips of Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Trevion Williams (left) and Jashun Griffith (right), both 13, students at Crystal Springs Middle School in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, chat at the Haley Farm lake gazebo. They are exposed to people who are working in communities and in schools, people who are speaking up for health care, education and juvenile justice.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. Allyson Saladino High School Social Studies Teacher, Ridgewood, New Jersey I used the lesson titled, How Red Lines Built White Wealth , in order for students to learn about red lining and institutionalized racism.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. My desk had never been cleaner in 20 years of teaching,” said social studies, history, and economics teacher Phoebe Skinner.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

While dual-language programs often stop after elementary school, the bilingual advantage stretches through students K-12 years and into their working lives. Dual-language students have been found to score higher than their peers on both math and English language arts exams by middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

When Stephanie spoke up once in middle school, a teacher told her, “I can’t put you anywhere else because you’re going to block other students.” In surveys, teachers also predicted that students with obesity weren’t good in other subjects such as math and social studies. “To she recalled. She felt invisible.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. While education levels are not related to conservative beliefs about economic policy, they are related to conservative beliefs about the value of cultural diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

On a hot Friday afternoon in late August, Amia Bridgeford stood outside of the chain-link fence bordering Western Middle School of the Arts, an imposing brick building with arched windows in western Louisville. It was four days before the beginning of a new school year. This story also appeared in NBC News. I haven’t seen them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Kingswood social studies teacher Kimberly Kelliher is among them. It is a series of attitudes and actions that led to an atrocity,” says Kelliher, who has taught social studies for more than two decades. A social studies classroom at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro.

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