The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. Some teacher educators have pushed back at me on this point, asserting that it is the job of the K-12 system to have provided this basic knowledge. However, it is still higher education’s opportunity to fix.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Jigsaw Strategy first appeared on Studies Weekly. Jigsaw Strategy Oct. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders?

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

history, in 1801 and 1825. Read “Amendment 12” together as a class. who wanted a voice in government] Weekly Assessment: Have students write a paragraph on the following: Should the president be elected directly by the people? When this happens, each state gets one vote. This has only happened twice in U.S. Why or why not?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The union, Child Care Providers United, represents workers who care for children receiving government subsidies, enabling the professionals to collectively negotiate with the state on matters such as compensation, benefits and working conditions. She just called out of the blue,” said Sanders, “and she goes, ‘Oh, my God, you’ve made history!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Even before the pandemic, STEM achievement gaps in K-12 schools were significant. Local science and natural history museums could also help by arranging free outdoor and physically distanced exhibits, and setting up outdoor kid-friendly laboratories with slides and microscopes.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2022

Although GRT has been around for some time, I believe that pre-K-12 educators haven’t reckoned with the degree to which some young people will defend “whiteness.” If our students continue to have access via social media to unchecked racist propaganda and flawed history, they will be vulnerable to committing racial violence.

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

TCI’s free social studies activities will keep students engaged throughout the year as they explore the history behind Labor Day and biographies for Black History Month. Review the list to find seasonal social studies lessons, primary source activities, and biographies for K-12 classrooms. Get the lessons. presidents.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

I understand how the dysfunction of the federal government in the early stages of the pandemic crippled states and localities and their ability to respond. I miss meeting kids from all over the city. I’m tired of staring at a computer screen in my room for the entire day, every weekday, for the better part of a year. Give us some leadership.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bradshaw wishes more teachers would teach civics and history through Studies Weekly. “Students love having success with their work, and Studies Weekly lays a good, solid foundation for learning such skills.” Sadly, many teachers simply overlook the importance of social studies in a student’s development.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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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. Board to Cleveland, Mississippi, a history fraught with injustice appeared first on The Hechinger Report. May 17 th marked the 62nd anniversary of Brown v. The post From Brown v.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

deBoer has taught in both the K-12 and college setting, and he has served as an academic assessment manager at a college. He traces that viewpoint back to the 1983 government report, “ A Nation at Risk ,” which he says coincided with a decline in manufacturing jobs in the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In Black hair, we find art, creativity, history and connection. As we can see from recent news coverage of Black students being suspended or reprimanded for their hair, K-12 schools continue to perpetuate racial discriminatory practices, which adversely impacts Black students' ability to feel a sense of belonging in their school communities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The story’s breadth is rarely explained, said Tate, who wants visitors to McDonogh 19 to learn the history, within the very space where history was made. “I Her daughter, Cabrini Cooper, 42, first heard about her mother’s place in history from a great-aunt.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

Native American parents at Havasupai Elementary School in Arizona are suing the federal government and the Bureau of Indian Education for failing to educate their children, practicing excessive exclusionary discipline, violently restraining students and denying the community’s federally protected right to participate in school decision-making.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Related: California helps college students cut their debt by paying them to help their communities Students with foster care backgrounds often must overcome hurdles rooted in their K-12 education. Recently, the state increased foster student rent subsidies in higher cost-of-living areas. But holes remain.

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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. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. And while most are avoiding the bad optics of raising tuition this year, history suggests these costs will eventually fall to students and their families. Other spending, too, continued to go up. Cash reserves sank.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Students are suddenly eager to talk politics and government, but the hyper-partisan reality beyond school walls makes it hard to pull off these discussions in class. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips. President Lyndon B.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The historically majority-white district, which served 14,150 K-12 students, 61 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2018-19 school year, has seen a recent influx of immigrants from around the world. The district also offers courses like Digital Audio Production, History of American Pop and AP Music Theory.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

In a survey, 12% of community college and 9% of university students reported they were homeless. “I’ve The program at UWT was spearheaded by student government leaders who reached out to the housing authority and K?z The housing authority pays K?z I’ve been doing awesome ever since,” said Gorder. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

One hard-hit district is Plumas, which encompasses Greenville, a mountain town that burned virtually to the ground in the Dixie Fire, the second-biggest blaze in state history. Students from Greenville will have the option of attending another school in the district unharmed by the fire. “It But money hasn’t been forthcoming.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2019

If public and private higher education weren’t heavily subsidized by the public sector because of perceived public benefits — including by federal, state and local governments and their taxpayers — we can imagine the scenario of a private market allocating seats. Such a conclusion would not account for the role of race and ethnicity.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Black and brown people are more exposed than white people because of educational issues and historic occupational histories. We’re trying to change the mindset within the K-12 system that modern manufacturing in the Golden Triangle is not the 4 D’s: It’s not dirty, not dangerous, not disappearing, and not for the dumb,” said Shaunak.

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Teaching Civics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The Center for Civic Education offers a selection free lessons for K-12 students that teach about the Constitution: [link] One lesson, “ Constitution Day Scavenger Hunt with 60-Second Civics ” uses one minute audio programs that focus on the Framers of the Constitution. government works. Constitution! Enough said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Say Yes Buffalo is understandably drawing interest from school districts and local governments around the country, anxious to see if its success can be replicated. There was so much acrimony and such a history of distrust and malfunction.”. Because people just didn’t get along. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Artwork decorates the government-run nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. caring for young children has long been considered the responsibility of individual families, not the government. We were established to escape government tyranny. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. Britain says ‘yes’. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. billion in federal K-12 aid. On their first day, July 12, she sent them on the bus with printouts of their Individualized Education Programs, personalized learning plans for students with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But after the episode at the hospital, the threat assessment team determined that AJ was an ongoing safety threat due to a history of “concerning behaviors,” according to the state investigation, which was prompted by a complaint Richmond filed with the Colorado Department of Education. The district decided to ban him from in-person classes.

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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. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. Back in the classroom, they discussed their ideas for improvement.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Student protesters from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida demand government action on firearms. In a recent Annenberg Public Policy Center survey , three in four Americans could not name the three branches of government. But the problem is not just a lack of academic content about civics and history. Not so well.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

A school turn-around grant program — funded by the federal government and run by the Montana Office of Public Instruction — may be changing that. There’s a basketball court, dozens of tidy little houses (mostly built by the federal government), at least three churches, well-kept Pow Wow grounds, and acres and acres of sky.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Approximately 80 percent of college degrees — including in the humanities that Hanrahan’s peers majored in, such as English and History — have labor market value, Carnevale says. But Lawrence Mishel, a labor market economist with the Economic Policy Institute, sees it much differently: “I think we’re way past that tipping point.”.

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