C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

The impact was clear: students were not just learning history; they were doing history asking questions, evaluating evidence, and formulating arguments. Some educators were initially hesitant, concerned about time constraints, student readiness, and adapting to a new instructional approach. IDM does just that.

Social Studies 40

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

It is not often that we see an overhaul of the furniture in our public school classrooms, let alone in the middle of the school year. Last November, there was an anonymous donation of mobile desk chairs to our school. It was then that I saw the ingrained sense of worth that society has etched into our public schools.

Public School 114

Public School K-12 Pedagogy Private School 114

Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

By August 2024 she would complete her degree in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, giving her time for such an endeavor. She thought she could help repair a disconnect between what some worry is happening in public schools and what she knows actually happens.

Government 96

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

One pair of kids from his class ended up comparing the person with the most toes in history to the person with the fewest toes. For instance, play in early education reinforces the development of social-emotional skills and critical thinking. Unsurprisingly, this exerts different pressures on teachers than public schools.

K-12 124

K-12 Pedagogy Teaching Elementary School 124

Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Board of Education , finding segregated schools inherently unequal. Given the deliberate vagueness of the instruction, Southern school authorities delayed compliance. Ellen Tucker, long time blog contributor for Teaching American History [1] But not as proactive as some. For a history of Rosenwald schools, see Thomas W.

Education 59

Education American History Junior High History 59

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

If you are in the education field, its likely that you are dealing with AI in some way. AI readiness has emerged as a key focus area for forward-thinking educators. As AI becomes more pervasive, educators recognize that these skills are not just for future computer scientists or tech professionals.

K-12 107

K-12 Public School Leadership Teaching 107

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

While private high schools can often afford to employ staff like Ward who are devoted exclusively to helping students plan for college and their futures, these jobs are rare at public schools. Ward, 51, began her education career at Bucknell University, her alma mater, where she spent seven years working in admissions.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

History 105

History Teaching Sociology Oral History 105

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right. I was always interested in history. But I did enjoy teaching.

History 129

History Museum Social Studies Geography 129

ED Surge

AUGUST 6, 2024

When the New York City Public Schools chancellor, David Banks, caused the largest district in the country to change how it taught students to read last year, it was with a sense of alarm. There’s an unvoiced assumption behind this — that education is prone to “fads.” But they may not be aware of the history of instruction.

Education 133

Education Psychology Public School History 133

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2024

He doesn’t want you to consider it remotely awe-worthy that he campaigned on a platform to turn his Idaho district into a leader on climate change, or that he won, against an incumbent, in the highest-turnout school board election in Boise history. Shiva Rajbhandari says education is “the” climate solution.

Education 138

Education K-12 Public School History 138

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Only 10 percent of public school principals nationwide are Black , which helps explain why hiring and retaining Black teachers has been so problematic. Tate and the Georgia Teachers and Education Association also fought against unfair credentialing practices that strained the Black teacher pipeline.

Education 141

Education Tutoring Pedagogy Advocacy 141

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We’re leading these schools.

Charter School 137

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

A federally mandated evaluation of student performance, the National Assessment of Educational Progress known as the nations report card is considered one of the most accurate glimpses at student learning in the country. Unsurprisingly, these struggling students are less likely to read for pleasure and less likely to show up to school.

Tutoring 89

Tutoring History Public School Education 89

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The retired public school teacher stands out in a burnt orange sweater, her curly hair adorned with a soft brown beret. Shes also one of the people having the most fun. Perez, known as Ms.

Tutoring 123

Tutoring Library Government History 123

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Ron DeSantis or the College Board to curate and disburse Black history to us. As despicable and harmful as the Florida governor’s recent rejection of the pilot Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course was, DeSantis does not get to decide when and how we learn Black history. DeSantis’ playbook is plagiarized.

History 119

History American History Social Justice Leadership 119

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Given that teachers are charged with imparting the contributions of women to their students throughout Women’s History Month, a special place should be reserved during March for the women teachers who go unrecognized. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

History 105

History Charter School Archiving Advocacy 105

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

Even more importantly: How can policies and education help improve our status in the U.S.? history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. —

American History 114

American History History Teaching Primary Sources 114

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting.

K-12 144

K-12 Ancestry Education Geography 144

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. While the share of adults with a high school degree within Lockhart ISD’s territory is roughly aligned with the state, the share who have a bachelor’s degree — just 16.8

Economics 121

Economics High School Public School Education 121

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.

Charter School 109

Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. KELLEN ZENG. Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. “At

History 112

History Heritage K-12 American History 112

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Department of Education, only two percent of teachers are African American men, yet African American students make up at least 16 percent of the country’s student population. This reality has serious implications for the country’s educational landscape overall, as well as for the growing number of students of color.

Education 152

Education Charter School Social Studies Teaching 152

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform.

History 108

History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 108

ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

How can educators prepare students for an evolving future influenced by artificial intelligence? Educators are encouraged to view AI not merely as a technological advancement but as a tool to enhance and augment the human experience. George is an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Humanities 128

Humanities Education K-12 Critical Thinking 128

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 14, 2012

The experience was truly a culmination of history: taking an Amtrak Train from Metropark to Washington DC, navigating the Metro subways of DC and lastly, filing through security and joining the ranks of US Senators and Senate Staffers for the day.

Social Studies 206

Social Studies Professional Development Educational Technology History 206

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

“Extreme weather is going to increasingly impact and disrupt learning,” said Laura Schifter, senior fellow at the Aspen Institute where she leads K12 Climate Action, an initiative to foster climate-friendly practices and policies within the education sector. Tay Anderson, a board member and secretary for Denver Public Schools.

Education 144

Education Elementary School High School K-12 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. AP's analysis does not include data on schools managed by the U.S. Education was a weapon for the U.S.

Elementary School 96

Elementary School Charter School Cultures High School 96

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change? Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued.

Education 126

Education Charter School Social Justice K-12 126

Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Good teachers respond to the needs of the students they seek to educate. Yet in their approach to this task, they are also responsible to administrators, parents, school boards—and, increasingly, to state and federal courts. Board of Education (1954), probably the most consequential Supreme Court ruling on education to date.

Education 98

Education Library American History Education Policy 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

An abundance of research indicates that culture-based education, an approach at the heart of the camp, positively affects Native students’ college aspirations, sense of belonging in school and connection to community. For example, a school district in Montana is being investigated by the U.S.

Cultures 108

Cultures Education K-12 Government 108

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

Her plan is to open an educational center on desegregation within her former school. Board of Education, which declared school segregation unconstitutional. Almost all of Tate’s years in public school — from first grade to high school graduation — were spent within the turmoil of newly desegregated schools.

History 111

History Elementary School Museum Archiving 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Earlier this year, state lawmakers proposed a repeal, eliciting more than 1,000 letters to the House Education Committee. Most (94 percent, or 248 letters) supported repeal, citing concerns such as a climate of fear among teachers and the worry that history couldn’t be taught fully and honestly.

History 90

History K-12 Social Studies Public School 90

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. I’ve developed a very strong opinion about my undergraduate teacher training, and also what teachers typically enter the public education system ready to do. My classes included all varieties of instruments.

Cultures 111

Cultures Education Middle School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

We applaud the Biden administration for taking this important and profound first step toward investing in children’s early experiences and education, a key mechanism for strengthening the economy and improving the lives of American families. Support for early education and care can’t stop at critical, short-term financial relief.

Education 135

Education History Public School Research 135

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

America has pulled back from the brink of denying science in education. We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. My high school, like so many public schools today, offered very few AP classes. She shaped my entire understanding of how I wanted to live and work.

Psychology 98

Psychology Teaching History American History 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. 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. Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms.

Education 112

Education Economics Civics Government 112