A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2010

Filip was recently featured in the April 2010 edition of Honor Student Magazine. True teaching extends beyond indoctrination and into the facilitation of educational discussion. This is where the true skill of teachers and their own leadership abilities are left to give us the most meaningful high school education possible.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

When Robert Ubell first applied for a job at a university's online program back in the late ’90s, he had no experience with online education. Ubell’s experience was in academic publishing, and he had recently finished a stint as the editor of Nature magazine and was looking for something different.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Petersburg Times , and Deborah Tannen for The New York Times Magazine , The Washington Post , and Vogue to name a few.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 14, 2025

Magazine blog, New Black Man (in Exile) , Colorlines , Vibe Magazine , Black Youth Project, and the African American Intellectual History Societys blog, Black Perspectives. The post Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

AI is a complex field that appears poised to impact nearly every aspect of human life, from work to interpersonal relationships, education, mental health, and beyond. How can we understand AI in the broader history of humans and technology? Where are there opportunities?

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ED Surge

JUNE 5, 2023

The Education Writers Association named Tate Sullivan the winner of a 2022 National Award for Education Reporting in the beat reporting category. One of them, “ Our Nation’s Teachers Are Hustling to Survive ,” was co-published with the investigative magazine Mother Jones. But I wondered, could we afford to keep them?”

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

They also recognised their mentee’s strengths and the need to give them time to develop aspects of their practice , understanding how important it is for the education ecosystem to attract and nurture new entrants into the profession. Judgementoring and other threats to realizing the potential of school-based mentoring in teacher education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

He is Heikki Happonen, head of the school and a career childhood educator. According to Happonen, the hallway scene reveals one of the secrets of Finland’s historic success in childhood education. In the United States, decades of botched attempts at education reform have led to little or no improvement in our schools.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In late September, my sophomores were packing up for the day when I noticed a group of boys, heads down, all focusing on what looked to be magazines open on their desks. So when educators returned to teach in the fall, what did those conversations and units look like? Tengo Andres Guardado?” “Sí… Sí… ¿Tengo Mbappe?”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

WASHINGTON — It’s no surprise that much of the conversation at gatherings of university officials these days is about how to prove the value of the liberal arts, once at the core of higher education and now among its most embattled branches. Higher Education. Colleges are shedding liberal arts programs and faculty. “It Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The New York Daily News reported on February 1 — the start of Black History Month — that a teacher in a majority-minority school in the Bronx, NY, instructed three black children in her seventh-grade class to lie on the floor during a lesson on slavery. Related: When black history isn’t relegated to a single month.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

It was a podcast version of the BBC radio show In Our Time, where a panel of academics discussed the history of ideas. Cook, who is editor in chief at the experimental academic publisher Allegra Lab , ended up becoming a podcaster himself, and a fan of the growing number of podcasts made by other professors and educators.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

This story about college student homelessness and hunger was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. Higher education is not a social service agency,” he says.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. In 1995, filmmaker John Akomfrah crafts and experimental film essay titled Last Angel of History.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2019

They also say it’s worsening the socioeconomic divide in higher education by segregating rich students from their poorer classmates and pushing up other off-campus rents. Andrew Ryder, assistant professor of higher education, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Life and Landscapes

APRIL 11, 2024

He also began to write short stories for a French family magazine. To know the publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, is to study French history. So he founded the Family Illustrated Library, which, in 1864, became the Magazine of Education and Recreation. Illustrations in that magazine would figure in his greatest success.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Each year, the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb. Black community. After Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The trailer is just down the road from Hickory, a town Reader’s Digest named one of the 10 best places in America to raise a family and that business magazines have hailed for its entrepreneurial climate. Liberal arts colleges are in crisis,” said Doug Sofer, professor of history at another of these schools, Maryville College in Tennessee.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. We’re educators, moms, we’re the nurse, social workers, we cook, we clean,” Parks said. “We Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2016

As an educator and as a black woman from the Bronx, I do not know how to begin to process the state-sanctioned murders of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling — or the killing of five Dallas police officers. As an educator, researcher, and activist, I think about how these events are being digested by people, especially young people.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University. In 2021, Dr. Lewis was honored with a Missouri State Resolution “for service in higher education” from the Missouri House of Representatives, Resolution No. in Political Science from the University of Missouri-St.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

Beyond reading The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks , we journaled and debriefed our responses in small groups, engaged in the Zinn Education Project’s mixer activity by Bill Bigelow , and watched some Democracy Now! After reading the chapter about Mrs. Her response: It made me question what I thought I knew about history.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A free online webinar by SAPIENS Editor-in-Chief Chip Colwell to learn about how to write for the magazine and its peer publications. Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings. ✽ My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Best Science Podcasts by TeachThought Staff Today, there is a wealth of content out there that’s both educational and entertaining, including some pretty amazing shows on scientific topics that are equally interesting to the layman and the professional. AMNH Podcast The American Museum of Natural History hosts a monthly podcast series.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Much of that had to do with the fact that I was learning about Black histories for the first time. I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.” He had no inkling it was about to cause something of a minor sensation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

No other organization matches the scope and variety of evidence-based, out-of-school educational and leadership opportunities.” No other organization matches the scope and variety of evidence-based, out-of-school educational and leadership opportunities, including those in STEM, specifically designed for girls.”. Absolutely!”

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Board of Education decision. Published in Ebony Magazine, January 1958. Board of Education case that racial segregation in education and “separate but equal” were unconstitutional, Elizabeth Eckford and her peers enrolled in the all-white Central High School. Library of Congress.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. And this is not the first time DeVos has publicly misinterpreted history. Remember when our education secretary called HBCUs “pioneers of ‘school choice,’” completely missing the fact that black postsecondary institutions were born of government-backed segregation?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2018

I am one of few African-American educators in a predominantly white school district. The onus to address racism rests upon the shoulders of all educators in my district, not simply the African-American teacher. The onus to address racism rests upon the shoulders of all educators in my district, not simply the African-American teacher.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A friend and colleague, the South African educator Wilmot James, said he learned of the death from a representative of Dr. Hamilton’s bank. Hamilton , Columbia University Magazine Charles V. He was 94.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

By the time I met Pierre-Floyd, I’d talked to dozens of students who said the white educators were well-meaning but often expected black kids to enroll at majority-white colleges and meet white ideals of success. Teachers valued her blackness, she said, and taught her the history of African and African-American strength.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

15 Women from World History Who Made a Difference Mar. 7, 2022 By Studies Weekly World history is full of remarkable women who changed the way we live today. During Women’s History Month or any time of the year, their stories can inspire your students to dream big and make the difference they want to see in the world.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 18, 2025

” Today, it’s hard to imagine how many American women in the early twentieth century, especially lower-income, less-educated women, were ignorant about birth control. The post Margaret Sanger: The Woman Rebel appeared first on Teaching American History. ” Margaret Sanger’s legacy is complicated.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) contains markers like socioeconomic status, financial security, educational attainment, and life expectancy, all of which tells a story of Asian American progress and achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2017

As the millions of Americans touched by Alzheimer’s will tell you, it is a serious, complicated, and often tragic subject for families, one that never makes it into the pages of Highlights Magazine or the storylines on Nick Jr. Related: Column Even a child can see the hypocrisy in Trump’s environmental plan. Sign up for our newsletter.

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