The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

We get what we educate for. That’s why it’s time to educate for the future we want: healthy, just and sustainable for ourselves and for generations to come. Children can also collect and publish oral histories about a place. There are lots of ways to begin. Distinguishing weather from climate is a good foundational step.

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Story File is ideal for helping students practice asking interview questions and conducting oral history projects. Imagine an Alexa that helps your students interview any historical figure living or dead? Try Story File and watch your students improve their speaking and listening skills.

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 2, 2024

She taps the wellsprings of memory, archives, oral histories, literature, imagination, and personal experience to tell a very Black story of armed resistance, strategic retreat, unbreakable resolve, and joyous rapture. The post We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Benefits of Primary Sources: Humanizing History With primary sources, students as young as kindergarten age can grasp difficult concepts and glean meaning from past events.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Scholarship, Organizing, Arts and Resistance) to bring her ideas about empowering Black girls to more students and educators.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Although educators are trying to keep schools open during the pandemic, they still have to figure out how to educate children quarantining at home. As the pandemic dragged on, Bartlett decided to turn the short-term project into a long-term survey and oral history of what was happening in classrooms around the country.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. I also play the piano, and I’m very interested in music history, theory and composition. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. Higher Education. What would you say is one thing that needs to be fixed currently about public education? Weekly Update.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Board of Education decision. 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. Children determined to receive a good education meet with anger and the menace of violence.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

It’s our common practice to document the progress of districts, schools, educators, and students toward transforming teaching and learning and expanding opportunity for all. Educators can download the Teacher Toolkit and StoryCorps App for free.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I share this story not to encourage people to adopt African names, but because learners and educators should not have to attend graduate school to learn truths about pre-colonial Africa and American history. A lot of her work is, and this is the latest demonstration of her contributions to education. King, Ph.D., Johnson Jr.,

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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. He was 94. Hamilton , Columbia University Magazine Charles V. Hamilton appeared first on.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. Higher Education. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them. It’s pretty good.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Also, Massachusetts public schools have been relatively slow to adopt student-centered learning, perhaps in part because traditional teaching approaches seem to work so well here—last year the state’s averages topped the National As sessment of Educational Progress test scores in reading and math. Photo: Nick Chiles for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. Higher Education. What do you think is the purpose of education, and what role should school play in a student’s life?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. Now, at the high school and others like it around the country, educators and experts worry that the pandemic will not only knock older high schoolers off track but contribute to more ninth and 10th graders leaving.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

history, from early America to the 1990s, and engaged sources suited for classroom use, including military and government records, oral history interviews, literature, photography, and organizational archives. The institute introduced the rich body of recent scholarship covering the span of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. Higher Education. I think our education system should be more like it is here. school system is a “mess.” Weekly Update.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Even without a formal education, Parker made some of the most important discoveries in archeology. Their achievements are a testament to the rich knowledge and innovative thinking that tribal communities bring to various scientific fields, from environmental science to epidemiology, botany, and education. 2, 2020, for AIP.org.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. Higher Education. He also don’t have his education, but he’d built a business, a painting business and a construction business.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. Higher Education. I think the role of teachers and education in general is to help us progress as a society.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Anna Phelan , kindergarten teacher at Overbrook Educational Center in Philadelphia. It feels really good and really important that our children… have access to in-person, five-day-a-week education. I think the oldest of my children, whose education was synchronous … fell behind substantially less than the others. metro area.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

While the educators, parents and students we spoke with predict next year will be easier, they also worry pandemic stresses will leave a lasting mark. Still, many people we talked to said the last two years had changed them for the better and brought some positives to the education system. More devices got into the hands of students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

That’s why we’re moving onto the next one, which matters enormously for the health of our public education system: What can schools, parents and educators across the country do to help students recover? Translation: Two years of Covid-related shutdowns and interruptions erased 20 years of educational progress.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. We focus on gifted education. Higher Education. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? It’s really diverse.

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 20, 2024

Now they’re gerrymandering our history to undermine our ability to link our present to the past. Many of the laws about education and voting rights are made by local and state officials. Students share thoughts on what makes a “qualified” voter, then reconsider after reading an oral history by Fannie Lou Hamer.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The group shares information about the islands ancient history and the role of local collaborators in discovering that heritage. Umoja is also collecting Oral Histories to preserve the legacies of generations of Rusingans who facilitated research around the island. Together, Siembo and Umoja, and Kenyan and U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2024

What role do you think education should play in encouraging people to take collective action and give them the skills to do it? Emi struggles with a more straightforward history essay assignment on the climate crisis and the transition to renewables and turns it into something of an oral history, interviewing her parents.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Education and Outreach Committee The education and outreach committee develops teaching guides and educator resources and works to build our collective capacity to “Teach CUNY” across the curriculum and in our communities. It will meet twice a semester or as needed, depending on the volume of submissions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

As the spike in infection rates subsides in most of the country and mask mandates continue to drop away, educators, students and parents are wading into yet another phase of pandemic learning. Anna Phelan, kindergarten teacher at Overbrook Educational Center in Philadelphia. There is cautious hope that it may be the last.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. Higher Education. What do you feel is the purpose of education? I think education is important, but it also depends.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

In the face of these drastic cuts, a real solution to supporting artists and keeping the arts vital in our communities is to develop new models of partnership that link higher education, artist residencies and communities. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Sign up for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Across the Atlantic, Bulaitis had been researching the changing value of higher education and the raising of tuition fees in the U.K.

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