Education Policy Leadership Social Studies 
Dangerously Irrelevant
AUGUST 4, 2015
All sports, all clubs, all leadership opportunities… Why are you angry? Let’s cut Social Studies. That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015). State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? We can do better! We can do better!
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. They are also seeking to use this moment to educate teens about elections and voting and turn them into lifelong voters. Related: Making America whole again via civics education.
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 11, 2017
Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 28, 2017
Consequently, anti-racist teachers like you and me must organize like-minded educators to form our own community. Because local unions can reflect the racial attitudes of the confined geographic area, leadership and involvement from the national-level group is almost always necessary. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 10, 2017
By 2021, schools must offer diplomas based students reaching proficiency in the four core academic subject areas: English, math, science and social studies. By 2025, four additional subject areas will be included: a second language, the arts, health and physical education.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 4, 2023
HISD leadership is a disaster…. Related: Inside an ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Nationally, takeovers are relatively rare: Between 1988 and 2016, states took control of 114 school districts, about four per year. Abbott responded with a scathing tweet : “What a joke. We need to show them who we are.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.
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