A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

A Social Studies Teacher’s Thoughts Critical Literacy by Colleen Tambuscio Learning about history offers meaningful and authentic opportunities for students to express their knowledge of the subject matter through writing and discourse. Common Core Standards Addressed: WHST.9-10.6; No one needs another report on an artist.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Administered by the federal government, it tracks student performance in fourth and eighth grades and serves as a national yardstick of achievement. The starkest example of growing inequality is in eighth grade math, wherethe achievement gap grew to the largest in the history of the test. That’s a big deal. Its almost criminal.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

High-quality civics and U.S. history instruction is essential for developing informed, engaged citizens who can navigate the complexities of modern society. Fordham Institute evaluated the state-of-state standards for civics and history across all fifty states. History and one semester of civics in high school.

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HistoryRewriter

MARCH 4, 2024

They have used this protocol with middle to high school grades covering history and government topics. Some of our awesome EduProtocol friends: Angela Zorn , Dominic Helmstetter , and Steph Conklin shared some examples in the gallery below.

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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. Later on, as I went into middle and high school and was wondering what I wanted to do in my career, I would think about teaching, and Ms.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Franklin/Associated Press Many schools serving Native American students have been working to strengthen connections with families, who often struggle with higher rates of illness and poverty. Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. government back in the past,” she said. “We Franklin Credit: Ross D.

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Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

Ginny Boles needed to build her content knowledge in American history. 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. Next, her father called.

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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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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. ” Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. But instead of graduating from Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, in four years, he took six. After high school, he did odd jobs for several years. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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. Will history repeat?

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. Professor Joseph Postell told the history of our political party system.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Match High School senior Aneudy Polanco celebrates his choice of UMass Amherst with his mother and girlfriend on college ‘signing day.’ This is the final story in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. Photo: Liz Willen.

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Moler's Musing

APRIL 11, 2025

No one complained, and the government made sure everything was perfect. Starting with Language We began with a short but important conversation about how we talk about people in history. EdPuzzle We watched a high school-level EdPuzzle on slavery and resistance. The responses were solid.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

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. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. I want people to experience what it was like, what we had to endure once we got to school,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

“We would like to take this moment to acknowledge the Dena’ina Athabascan people and the wisdom that has allowed them to steward the land on which Anchorage and Service High School reside,” the high school senior said. This story also appeared in High Country News. David Paoli, who is Iñupiaq from U?alaq?iq,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Each of Maine’s 124 high schools is required to offer such diplomas to the Class of 2021, next fall’s ninth graders.

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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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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. appeared first on Teaching American History. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? Have more questions?

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Teaching high school students about these stages prepares them with knowledge about the decision-making process and how their participation impacts the government. Teaching the election is an essential part of any history class. They are complex processes involving nomination, campaigning, voting, and counting.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.”

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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 fill an entire school here.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2023

State and local governments spent $113 billion subsidizing public universities and colleges and providing financial aid in the last fiscal year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. The government and other sources, such as U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

King understood that our rights are not given to us by the government, but are ours by the grace of God,” the governor said. Florida is doing its best to tilt the scales and shut down important, much-needed discussions of race, slavery, stolen lands, and undeniable history that have led us to where we are as a society today.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a student at Poughkeepsie High School in upstate New York and then as a high school educator in the Bronx, I’ve observed, both inside and outside the classroom, that many of us develop unconscious biases. However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For most adults, civics likely conjures distant memories of a high school course in which they memorized the three branches of government and other constitutional trivia. Being aware of how their government works is not enough to motivate young people to take part in it. What is the result?

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

Or any robust reopening at all — at least at the high school level. I go to The Beacon School , a high school of roughly 1500 students in Manhattan. I’m glad it was an option for kids who felt like they really needed it, but it was hardly substantial; the schools closed again in late November. .

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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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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I Related: How do we teach Black history in polarized times?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2016

Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional and required the integration of those schools that were segregating students. The post From Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Last summer, Skinner and his colleagues at University of Florida, professor Hazel Levy and doctoral candidate Taylor Burtch, began researching broadband history and differences in access. At the same time, the government helped developers build new suburban subdivisions exclusively for white people. Skinner argues that the U.S.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums. The 15-month tuition-free program focuses on enrolling educators in “high-needs” middle and high schools.

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