The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. This work needs to begin in elementary school, where students’ ideas about their place in the world are shaped.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. For this project, students invite teachers, school leaders and families to engage in the conversation.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. So there's an elementary school in Stockton, California. And he records the conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr. Yet reading achievement has remained flat and low for the last 20 years.

Social Studies 144

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Regular reading class was untouched in the experiment.

Learning Science 142

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. They help students understand what real people of the past saw, felt, and heard as they lived through the events we study in school. Their family stories are history!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. In June, with Sarah Frayer, an elementary school teacher and instructional coach in Washington, D.C.,

Teaching 145

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 3, 2024

On Monday, June 10, 2024 , scholar Brian Jones, in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian, will shed light on the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the North and ways that those stories can be included in the curriculum. Jones recently worked on the New York City Civil Rights History Project.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2023

Malaysia Robertson, 9, outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., Credit: Christiana Botic for The Hechinger Report A “watch for children” sign outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La.,

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic. math scores recorded in the history of the PISA math test, which began in 2003. The tests were administered in 2022.)

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. READ THE SERIES. Parents of young children are worried.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Related: Retraining an entire state’s elementary school teachers in the science of reading In recent years, school systems have begun to make changes. This past academic year, all high school English and history teachers received training; this fall, it’s science and math teachers’ turn.

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4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

Most of us who work in schools are motivated at least in part by a desire to make the world better, and it’s nice to know that our work actually makes a difference in what young people know and can do. And many elementary schools have basically not been teaching history for some time now.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Our own reporting highlighted ways that North Carolina is among the states finding success with this method, following a new law that brings uniformity to reading instruction and training all of the state’s elementary school teachers in the science of reading. Recently, more than a dozen other states have passed laws pushing phonics.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

But before all of that, I had to turn to history for a deeper understanding of how we got here. Turning to History When I started this work, it felt critical to understand why there are so few Black teachers in American public schools. I never lived in a majority-Black neighborhood or attended a majority-Black school.

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Leadership History Elementary School Public School 82

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2024

I had to fight against low expectations and conditions that devalued my potential, including “accidentally” being placed into English as a Second Language in elementary school, even though English is my first language. I then had to fight for a spot in upper-level classes when I got into high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

The film is garnering increased attention amidst the nation’s outrage over a history of murders and threats visited on African Americans, outside of any semblance of due process. We might reject budgets that give schools more security officers than counselors.

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Elementary School History Professional Development Cultures 123

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. What’s less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context. They say college should not be a time for a lot of survey courses.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

“That is something that school leaders and administrators are going to have to grapple with and start to better plan for.”. The burned remains of the Paradise Elementary school as seen Friday, November 9, 2018, in Paradise, California. Related: The silence of school leaders on climate change. Hot classrooms.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters Schools are finding better ways to teach recent immigrant and refugee students. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 22, 2013

Warren developed this program for middle and high school students, but Judy convinced him that elementary school students could do it. With the help of teachers who stepped out of the box to work with the kids – Justine Kostenbader (Technology) and Mr. James Laieta (Language Arts) – the after school program was born.

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 4, 2024

The recent push for science-aligned reading instruction (which we strongly support) has certainly made it clear that there is also a wealth of resources and ideas available for elementary reading instruction. Elementary schools don’t devote a lot of time to social studies, and there are fewer resources available. Not so much.

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Social Studies Artifacts Elementary School Teaching 58

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon. The idea was met with nods by three of Chandler’s classmates as they sat discussing the future in the principal’s office of their 400-student elementary school, a red-brick structure in a suburb of Portland. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

About 70 percent of the city’s students chose to stay home and learn remotely; elementary school students who did so are now going to have another chance to come back in person. But the mayor said he isn’t yet sure about the high school kids. Hank Drucker is a sophomore at The Beacon School in Manhattan. Be transparent.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts. Rural students tend to do well in elementary school, but something changes as they get older. More than 9.3 It’s not something he would have considered before he started studying with Mitchell.

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World History Civic Engagement Elementary School K-12 131

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

After starting elementary school in the late 1960s, Naomi Hirahara and three other girls formed a clique called the C.L.A.N., Having lived through the desegregation order, Hirahara, who is now an award-winning mystery writer , wishes more people knew about the history of the city’s schools. PASADENA, Calif.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

And last but not least, listeners gravitated to episodes we did that revisited the history of longstanding educational narratives and looked how we got here. In fact, our most popular episode of the year was about the strange and messy history of gifted and talented programs in the U.S. Where did this idea come from?

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bradshaw wishes more teachers would teach civics and history through Studies Weekly. “Students love having success with their work, and Studies Weekly lays a good, solid foundation for learning such skills.” Sadly, many teachers simply overlook the importance of social studies in a student’s development.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw Strategy Oct. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Throughout elementary school, I was always known as the girl who talked a lot and turned simple conversations into debates. On a piece a paper, I wrote “Black History Month.” ” I asked my peers to sign it if they agreed that we should celebrate Black History Month at our school. About voting?

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Civic Engagement Civics Elementary School History 69

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

At the same time, we’re also taking away science and history instruction where kids can develop knowledge and where they can put comprehension strategies into practice. In this survey of elementary school children, parents had even more negative attitudes toward reading than their children.

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