Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” Brett Van Gaasbeek, MAHG graduate and teacher at Cincinnati Northwest High School in Ohio.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. And that’s when I said no.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its easy to focus on just the President when teaching the Executive Branch, but its important also to stress the role of the four million other people who make up this branch of government. Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. The reality is that in most school governance systems, young people are systematically marginalized … and students play absolutely no role.” Related: Students have their own demands for school reopening.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 10, 2010

This morning I had a breakfast for all members of student government. Over the course of the year I like to have at least three meetings like this to hear their ideas on the culture of New Milford High School and ways to improve it. Students explained that they would need to be able to use their phones in school before homeroom.

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Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so as to read the Latin and Greek texts the Founding Fathers read as they formulated their plans for self-government. Then one of my high school juniors would raise a hand and ask a good question. Next, her father called.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

. — The previous few months had witnessed a handful of small endings, and now, with the school year drawing to a close, these events were piling up quickly. In February, hundreds had gathered in the school gymnasium for the final basketball games in Chelsea High School history. Michael Dougherty/VTDigger.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The Importance of Elections Elections are not merely events where people cast votes and wait to hear the winner. Teaching high school students about these stages prepares them with knowledge about the decision-making process and how their participation impacts the government.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2022

Over the 17 years I have taught high school chemistry, the challenges in education have become more acute — even before the pandemic we were scrambling to provide our students with meaningful instruction online and to find ways to get all our students to actively engage in learning.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MAY 31, 2024

Teaching civics and government is different from teaching history—it really requires a different set of go-to lesson ideas and projects. Below are some of my favorite activities from my high school Civics classroom. Many of them should also work great if you teach middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A survey of over 20,000 students conducted May through June found that only 39 percent of students said they learned a lot every day while their school building was closed. Summer break gave school leaders time to reflect on the lessons of the spring and create more effective reopening plans for the fall. It blows my mind.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. For more information about our Multi-Day seminars and to see the schedule of events please click here. The seminar also includes a visit to a local historical site. See a sample itinerary here. Have more questions? Click here.

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Students of History

JANUARY 10, 2023

Many teachers avoid bringing current events into the classroom and often for good reason. However, current events are a great way to connect your curriculum to the real world and work on social studies skills. So, I encourage you to try - when relevant - to bring some current events into your lessons.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Suddenly the light bulb went off in my head that I could utilize this to greatly enhance school communications. Best of all was the fact that this service was free and stakeholders could receive information on school events, news, student accomplishments, and innovations in the classroom on their mobile devices.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Teaching the different forms of government seems easy enough – go over some definitions and provide examples, then quiz your students. But that’s not creating any real meaning for them, especially if your high school Civics students are somewhat familiar with them already. What are the Main Types of Government?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In the middle of the country’s current economic and health crisis, there’s a disturbing trend in higher education: Fewer high school seniors are filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which is typically the first step in receiving federal and state grants, federal loans and institutional aid for college.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

For instance, open standards allow institutions to track meaningful learner event data such as clicks, time spent on tasks or questions asked in AI tools and contextualize it alongside other holistic student information. This structured approach eliminates silos and makes data actionable in real time.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

The problem that parents and students currently face stems from a legal principle known as the state action doctrine , which emphasizes that the federal Constitution primarily regulates government action — not private conduct.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MARCH 3, 2024

In short, it’s a representative government of students that makes decisions about activities, clubs, assemblies, and other school-wide things. It should make all students feel heard and included in a positive school experience. A student council can be an extracurricular, meeting before or after school. Do you have one?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Ames, Iowa is more than 1,500 miles from Parkland, Florida, but the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School felt too close for comfort. Critics of ALICE say it can cause undue anxiety among students, in preparation for an event that few will ever have to confront.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

School Psychologist Dani Roquett greets Anne and James Hutt with their daughters, Ellison, 5, and Quinn, 10 months, at the “Zone Check-In” at the GET Together family educational event in January. Ellison and her dad picked green; Ellison’s mom took yellow, signaling to her daughter it was okay to be a little nervous at the big event.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2020

Most of the increase was driven by older adults, according to Doug Shapiro, executive research director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, rather than typical college-age students who had recently graduated from high school. The back-to-school rush didn’t happen right away. Here we go again,” said Baum.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What’s less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context. A look at the courses required by teacher preparation programs reveals scant attention to the broad social studies knowledge aspiring elementary teachers need to provide essential context to world events.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy’s support for the arts was admirable, but unfortunately, due to a number of societal factors, it wasn’t enough to increase arts education offerings for students in public schools. As a music teacher and the coordinator for the Academy for the Fine Arts at Governor Thomas Johnson High School, I consider myself fortunate.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In Louisiana, state officials have gotten students excited about what seems like a tedious task by turning it into a competition among high schools. In addition to offering typical FAFSA workshops and seminars, the state took FAFSA-form-filling tables to social events. But the real prize? Money for college. More than 1.7

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

After decades working with families of high school kids, the federal program extended its model this year to provide support through the first year of college. Aranda is also part of a Facebook group with other parents of first-generation college students, whom he met through a federal government program called Gear Up.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Related: LISTEN: In this Kentucky town, refugees can choose a separate high school. Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. From elementary school on, we are told both implicitly and explicitly that our opinions either shouldn’t or can’t be voiced. Where did we go wrong?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Their immersive stories will be screened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24 and 25, days on which heads of state and government from around the world will gather to comprehensively review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs. Youth Producers: Katriana A. (15),

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Attending school in America has been a “positive culture shock” to Marzia Mohammadi, a 17-year-old senior at Mt. Lebanon High School. Lebanon High School, apart from her regular classes, she chose electives like global studies, business and political science — three of her favorite subjects. Mohammadi’s friend N.W.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2024

By Liz Willen For many high school seniors and others hoping to attend college next year, the last few months have become a stress-filled struggle to complete the trouble-plagued, much-maligned FAFSA, or Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Despite heroic efforts by counselors and a slew of public FAFSA-signing events, just 40.2

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This story is first in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School, a charter public school in Boston. BOSTON — Just three weeks into the school year, seniors at Match High School are learning why their college counselor Shira Zar-Kessler advises students against applying “early decision.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Mikaela Johnson, with her mother, Ashley Johnson, faces uncertain high school plans because of the coronavirus pandemic and her family’s unstable housing situation. She currently works a clerical job for a government agency and drives cabs intermittently, while trying to launch a holistic wellness business. She paused.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

In Amherst, Massachusetts, home to Amherst and Hampshire colleges and the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts, revenues collected from September to May keep the doors open and the lights on for local businesses and government services. “I’m Sixteen percent of high school seniors say they’ll take a gap year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Gavin Newsom, whose administration launched the program, has called it a way “to restore the social contract between government and its citizens,” one “that says if you work hard and dedicate yourself in service to others, you will be rewarded with opportunity.” That didn’t happen.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

But some experts say the government needs to do far more to truly address poverty, including strengthening unemployment insurance, raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid leave for families and establishing universal preschool. Related: Homeless students set adrift by school closures face crisis after crisis.

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