The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Seated at folding tables and speaking through face masks, students at this STEM-focused charter high school tallied Covid-19 infection and death rates from one winter week — comparing national and statewide data with the virus’s toll at their school. This story also appeared in USA Today. The student engagement was so strong.

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Civics K-12 Middle School Lesson Plan 120

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. This story also appeared in Belt Magazine “You all know that I call your kids my kids, and they won’t stop being my kids,” Gordon says, wrapping up the meeting.

Education 109

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

I was beyond shocked that somebody from our state government was asking what books were available in our school libraries. Chris Tackett, a political campaign finance expert, tweeted a photo of a man in a hoodie leaving the high school library in Granbury ISD pulling a dolly of cardboard boxes labeled “Krause’s List.”

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Library Heritage K-12 High School 135

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. She jokes that she knows Tulsa’s schools so well because she attended so many of them, graduating from Memorial High School in 1984. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Newsweek magazine dubbed the city “ Murder Town USA ” in 2014. At the time, the mayor told Newsweek that the local schools were to blame for the cycle of violence. Taheem Fennel stands on his front stoop in Wilmington, Delaware on the first day of school. When the legislation was written, schools were still segregated by law.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Too often the school curriculum in the United States has told young people — explicitly and implicitly — that some lives matter more than others. We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” government.

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Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

When high school senior Destiny Watford learned that state officials had approved a building permit for a giant incinerator that would burn 4,000 tons of trash every day and emit more than a thousand pounds of lead and mercury every year, less than a mile away from her school in Baltimore, she took action.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Recently, the right-wing magazine The Federalist published a warning to parents in the form of a conspiratorial, unhinged and poorly supported op-ed titled, “ If The Left Ends Parent Rights, You Might Need A License To Raise Your Own Child.” government created these policies.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. I personally love it because you know what? It’s how this country was built, the way our Founding Fathers stormed the British Empire.”.

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Teaching Civics American History Controversial Topics 140

Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

“Some of the kids haven’t been hospitalized but they’ve missed a lot of school because they’ve gotten stuck in this avoidance cycle, which is really common for kids who struggle with anxiety and depression.” One recent classroom based study ambitiously measured many different elements of metacognition and some key other factors as well.

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Psychology Advocacy Middle School Research 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

19, 2018, after 17 people were killed in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., I’ve been asking the wrong question all along, and I only realized it after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week in Parkland, Florida. Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call.

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Civics Elementary School High School History 87

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I got the chance to connect with high school students in my breakout room and it was a refreshing reminder that the Black Freedom Struggle is not only being taught despite truth-teaching being criminalized, but also it is being learned and put into practice! Don’t miss upcoming sessions — register now. Muhammad: Yeah.

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Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

One of the first images to greet visitors to Taylor High School in Cleves, Ohio, is a mural dedicated to Malala Yousafzai , the Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize recipient, who was shot in the head because she believes girls should be able to go to school. That initiative could have been an opportunity for U.S. voice has been muted.

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