The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Alphina Kamara wonders what might have happened if she’d been introduced to science and engineering careers at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school. Alphina Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University, wishes she would have been encouraged to take her school’s engineering course in high school. Perkins Act.

Education 145

Education High School Sociology Middle School 145

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.

High School 47

High School Civic Engagement Civics Social Justice 47

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 I need to take my students outside and have them actually do the work of protesting.”

Teaching 132

Teaching Civics K-12 Civic Engagement 132

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.

Civics 129

Civics Education Civic Engagement K-12 129

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.

High School 121

High School American History Cultures History 121

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, was concerned about how that could happen safely. “I I go to a school with over 2,000 kids that walk through the door every single day,” she said. ” Olivia Sanchez, a rising senior at Chaffey High School in Ontario, California. Credit: Sophia Hammer.

High School 145

High School Psychology Inclusive Curriculum Education Policy 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Reagan’s dismantling of the War on Poverty was preceded by targeted use of racially loaded “welfare queen” rhetoric in many of his speeches, an assertion that Black people would rather live off the government dole than try to find jobs and support their families.

Economics 145

Economics High School Government History 145

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.

History 128

History Museum Social Studies Geography 128

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Anna Maria Jack says she isn’t flustered when students bring up fringe science denial theories during her 10th grade Earth science class in the Bronx.

Museum 126

Museum Teaching Professional Development High School 126

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Retrieved from [link] The stats on school staffing might seem like a violation of the laws of supply and demand. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000.

Tutoring 138

Tutoring Economics Public School High School 138

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Neural systems that most distinguish the human brain from those of other animals actively develop during early childhood. These traits are better at predicting school success and high school graduation than IQ tests. But these programs are currently available to far too few children. We must do better.

Elementary School 143

Elementary School High School Government Humanities 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: By the close of this century, at least half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken today will become extinct – and that’s according to the rosiest of linguistic forecasts.

Teaching 144

Teaching K-12 Heritage Government 144

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right? Jon: So, hey, Kirk — pop quiz.

Education 128

Education High School Government Economics 128

Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

The term Ahnishinahbayeshshikaywin encompasses practices that establish a relationship between places and people; these reflect a belief in souls, spirits, and the existence of human souls through eternity. 3 in 1874 with the Canadian government. I finished my secondary schooling at Queen Elizabeth High School in Sioux Lookout.

History 138

History Cultures Archaeology Tradition 138

ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

New research published this week by the Society for Human Resource Management aims to address those questions. But even before an application finds its way to a human, it often has to pass through an automated screening process. How will he or she react to an application that has an alternative credential instead of a college degree?

Tradition 113

Tradition Humanities Leadership High School 113

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

This, though, is rapidly changing — we visited a high school in Helsinki that is as diverse as any American high school.) The point, he said, is “the human values and the human principles that one learns in childhood. Fund schools equitably on the basis of need. However, the U.S.

Education 112

Education Economics Civics Government 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

After the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, tens of thousands of girls were banned from attending school beyond sixth grade. He was hit by a baseball bat right in the middle of his face when he was in high school, which caused his brain to be crushed inside his skull. Only someone who faces their problems can succeed.

Tutoring 133

Tutoring World History Humanities High School 133

ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

EdTech 136

EdTech Humanities K-12 Tutoring 136

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

The federal government provided billions of dollars to help schools recover from Covid, and some tapped that money for temporary stipends to attract new substitutes. But the stakes to find more permanent solutions are high. A lot of substitutes only need a high school diploma and know very little about education,” Basile said.

Elementary School 135

Elementary School High School Public School Advocacy 135

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. Victoria was in my U.S.

World History 120

World History World Religions Civics History 120

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For high school students in search of a career pathway that combines the challenges of building a floating city with the difficulty of launching a rocket into space, there’s a relatively little-known college major that might float their boat — naval architecture. Are we gonna refloat the boat? Garcia says.

Government 123

Government Humanities High School Research 123

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.)

Government 133

Government Economics Humanities High School 133

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Robert Wells graduated from high school with a B+ average. Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. at Nashville State Community College. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Government High School Humanities 111

Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish. An estimated “1.8

Anthropology 135

Anthropology Government Cultures Psychology 135

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. Photo Credit: Rafael Bittencourt.

K-12 128

K-12 Government High School Cultures 128

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

As humans continue to unleash greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, fires, hurricanes, floods, droughts and heat waves are intensifying, in some cases forcing kids to flee their homes and classrooms and shattering their sense of security. High School, in California, and her daughter, Eva Morris, who lost their home in the Dixie Fire.

Education 144

Education Elementary School High School K-12 144

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. public schools practice some sort of lockdown drill according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

K-12 107

K-12 Government Humanities Public School 107

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

. Imagine you’re in high school. If any of these were isolated assignments that might be fine because you could likely do them during lunch or right after school. But in most cases, high school students today have several of these assignments made concurrently. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

Library 97

Library High School Government Humanities 97

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

She’d married not long after graduating from high school in 1981, had three children soon after that, and then gone to work for McDonald’s to make ends meet after her marriage ended. Despite recent talk of debt relief and free college, little government help has been forthcoming, especially for working adults.

Education 134

Education Government High School Economics 134

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Students from City As School high school in New York City think like engineers as they construct a water filtration system. Five groups of high school students worked around tables in Vielca Anglin’s science classroom on a recent afternoon at City-As-School in New York City. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

Education 107

Education K-12 Middle School High School 107

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

During a John Muir High School walkout protesting the school’s ban on durags on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Dylan Wilson, 15, shows his 360 wave hairstyle, created after months of wearing a durag. However, if there is an issue in which schools need guidance, it’s around black hair. Late last year, U.S.

Charter School 111

Charter School Human Rights Government High School 111

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. At least, in theory. That’s not a new ideology within education.

Education 125

Education EdTech Government Tradition 125

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services estimates that more than a third of the country lives in an area where there is a shortage of mental health professionals, with at least 6,000 additional practitioners needed. Nobody understands teenagers more than somebody who has recently been through high school.

High School 101

High School Government Humanities Education 101

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Some students at Custer County District High School in Miles City, Montana, live 25 miles or more from campus and have spotty internet access. On her ranch far from the high-powered fiberoptic connections of major cities, Traci Glasscock was frustrated. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college?

Education 110

Education Geography High School Cultures 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2018

From the mountains of Tennessee to the West Side of Chicago, teachers represent our best chance of achieving the goal we have for every child in this country to graduate from high school. House of Representatives to fund the federal government through September 2018. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

Education 102

Education Government Public School Professional Development 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Like many fields, it has its own unique structure, governance and jargon. Education leadership requires a proficient understanding of students, schools and systems if one seeks to obtain longevity and success. Howard Fields is an assistant superintendent of human resources and adjunct professor in Missouri.

Leadership 145

Leadership Government Humanities Education 145