Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

To make clear that black schoolteachers would serve in equivalent roles to those of white teachers, the Human Relations Committee proposed to school officials that teachers for the entire fourth grade class during the 19661967 school year be drawn from Reid School. For a history of Rosenwald schools, see Thomas W.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

At the Williston-Elko Middle School in rural South Carolina, where she has taught for seven years, more than three out of every four students are poor enough to qualify for free or reduced-priced lunch. Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. READ THE SERIES.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A teacher in training darted among students, tallying how many needed his help with a history unit on Islam. Students at Whittier Elementary School, in Mesa, Arizona, attend classes led by a team of teachers who have different skills and expertise. The school began experimenting with team teaching five years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

Putting this bill to work will expose many students to the satisfaction of higher math just before middle school. My joy was only further enhanced in the elementary school classroom, where I learned the formal arithmetic that guides this technique of calculating percentages. In fact, many experience the opposite.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

EdSurge connected with Heitner to talk about what she’s learned and what advice she gives educators at all levels, from elementary school through college. History and not be getting your calculus grade right now. And no one ever said starting high school was easy. Do you really want to relive middle school?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Through ConnectED, all 89 LCPS schools were able to get their own ArcGIS Online Organization from Esri. Here are just a few of their stories.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

At Emerald STEAM Magnet Middle School in El Cajon, California, a digital simulation of the annex where Anne Frank lived in hiding brought history to life and allowed students to develop a better contextual understanding of the play they were reading. “I Their grades have gone up. The quality of their work has gone up.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And indeed, 51 percent of David Douglas high school students currently enrolled in a music class qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, compared to 66 percent at the high school as a whole. Typically, high schools have lower poverty levels than elementary schools because parents are older and able to earn more.).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. Then I got to a middle school in the same district in a neighborhood with kids who were less economically advantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Fewer than 20 percent of high school students knew that simply looking at one photo online is not enough research to gauge if something is really happening. And among middle school students, 80 percent did not understand that “sponsored content” on a news organization’s website is paid advertising.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Rancho Minerva Middle School, Vista, CA. Detroit Country Day School, Bloomfield, MI. Avondale Elementary School District, Avondale, AZ. Baltimore County Public Schools, Towson, MD. Taylor County School District, Campbellsville, KY. And with that, meet the 2015 winners! Educator Winners. Dyke Redmond.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

“The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” But this advantage peaks and then dissipates by middle school. The likelihood of taking a remedial English course in middle school was reduced by a third for kids who were retained.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Nearly every classroom at Story Creek Elementary School offers sweeping views of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains that surround the Gallatin Valley here in southwest Montana. A bulldozer sits idle during a break on construction of new homes near Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont. BELGRADE, Mont.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Middle school students at the Innovation Academy experiment with building electrical circuits. The Innovation Academy workspace at Dysart Unified School District looked more like a tech startup’s headquarters than a classroom. Miranda Virgil, seventh-grade math teacher at Canyon Ridge Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Total enrollment: 1,200 students 2 In-person enrollment: About 80 percent at the start of the year, 85 percent at the end 3 Total cases, 2020-2021 school year: 47 in students, 25 in staff 4 13 elementary school students (Austin Elementary School) 19 middle school students (Austin Middle School) 15 high school students (Austin High School).

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Home to more than 12,000 public school children, the district was the first in Mississippi to defy the governor and voluntarily offer real choice for white and black children to enroll in each other’s schools. No white children crossed over to attend the all-black Coleman High School, or any other black elementary or middle schools.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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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. Credit: Image provided by Julie Burtscher Brown “It’s widely known that elementary teachers in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

And even if young men resolve to go to college later, he said, history shows that “their chances of actually coming back to higher ed are probably slim to none.”. Pedro Hidalgo, a senior at the University Park Campus School in Worcester, Massachusetts. Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. “We There’s more distractions for guys.

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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 Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report. And that’s just what he did.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Last spring, remote learning went so badly for Evelyn Livingston, 12, that she ended up switching schools. She was in sixth grade at Lakewood Elementary School in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, when the pandemic began in the spring. “A He added his school’s curriculum includes a diversity of writers and historical figures. “It’s

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

But other districts, like the Schenectady City School District near Albany, New York, are ramping up social work services to address the need, including a relatively new program targeting kids who land in trouble for the sometimes destructive reactions to the trauma they’ve experienced.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and walked through an exhibit that highlights the history of the building as well as former President John F. In my district, for example, elementary students spend an average of 300 hours a year engaged in arts-based instruction including music, visual art, theater and movement.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” Curtis Chapin, a Crew advisor and language arts teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, reviews the “Crew Contract” signed by each member. Chris Berdik/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

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

million people that is less diverse than America, and that has a history very different from our own? As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students. 8) Shorten the school day. It doesn’t matter where you come from.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

More than 30 years ago, Rockville Centre began a gradual but determined effort to do away with gifted classes in its elementary schools as well as many of the tracked classes at the middle and high schools. Wells Middle School, D.C.’s s newest SEM school, opened just last year.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Prior to his suspension, Martinez enjoyed school. He had a passion for drawing that made art class his favorite, followed by math and history. As a history buff, he liked sharing what he already knew from videos he had watched on his own. How do you expect me to do well in school? It just tortures a person’s mind.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in Uvalde, Texas, and 17 more wounded, in the sanctuary of an elementary school. A natural human reaction is to defend, to protect and to guard—which translates into “hardening” schools. While there is no single profile, most school shooters were victims of bullying.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For instance, after San Francisco Unified de-tracked math, the proportion of students failing algebra fell from 40 percent to 8 percent and the proportion of students taking advanced classes rose to a third, the highest percentage in district history. Until 10th grade, students take the same mathematics classes. Why do these results arise?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But research shows that many of these ideas have had a spotty track record in the past and that schools will have to pay close attention to what’s worked—and what hasn’t—to maximize their odds for success with just about any strategy. There’s no silver bullet. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students. ACCELERATION.

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