Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Political parties have a long and often convoluted history in American politics. This would be especially true in the case of unified government where loyalty to party might come to interfere with the system of checks and balances. More precisely, republican government does not work well without being buttressed by political parties.

Government 52

Government History American History Tradition 52

Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

For much of history, the rise of inequality has been treated like gravity: inevitable, natural, and inescapable. From the sprawling villas of Roman elites to the thatched huts of the poor in medieval Europe, textbook history often presents wealth disparity as a consequence of human progress. Three excavated Classic period (ca.

Humanities 61

Humanities Archaeology Economics Museum 61

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Despite the setback, I believe there is still a way for students to re-engage in school, support their communities and learn leadership skills. History class, approached me after the White House threatened to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador. Service-Learning in Action Jeslyn, a student in my U.S.

Civic Engagement 136

Civic Engagement Civics K-12 Education 136

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Among them is: How will we ensure diverse leadership in this country if student diversity decreases at Ivy League and other top colleges? We should instead be asking this: Why are we so laser-focused on the graduates of a tiny number of schools, presuming they are the rightful inhabitants of leadership posts in business and government?

Leadership 127

Leadership Government Private School Tradition 127

Political Science Now

MAY 13, 2025

Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell University. She is the recipient of the SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching (May 2024) as well as the Barbara Burch Award for Faculty Leadership in Civic Engagement (AASCUs American Democracy Project, June 2024). Roberts is the Richard J.

Civic Engagement 54

Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science Civics 54

Teaching American History

MAY 21, 2024

This class will help students understand the complexities and nuances of a pivotal time in American history. Students will examine the writings of leading black intellectuals and activists about human equality, slavery, self-government, the rule of law, emancipation, colonization, and citizenship. MAHG is both!

Professional Development 111

Professional Development American History Economics Social Studies 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Yet the reality is that government funding decisions about education have long been a way to install and preserve racial inequality in our society. And since these inequalities have origins in funding malpractice, to remedy them, the government must use targeted funding for racial equity going forward.

Public School 132

Public School Sociology Government Advocacy 132

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 6, 2021

suburbs and whose parents worked for the federal government, today’s events have been… challenging. I think that what I will say here is: Policymakers, you know how you’ve minimized the importance of history, government, and civics in all of your education reform efforts over the past couple of decades?

Social Studies 145

Social Studies Civics Government History 145

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In September 2024, EdNCs early childhood team attended The Hunt Institute's 2024 Early Childhood Leadership Summit , which included teams from all 50 states comprised of senior elected officials, gubernatorial staff, mayors, local elected leaders, and key early childhood system leaders. It includes $26.25

K-12 63

K-12 Private School Government Advocacy 63

ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Here in my home state of Florida , we are arguing about how to teach history and whether we can acknowledge the gender identities of students. Without that leadership, we’ll be stymied by the same patterns responsible for the persistent disparities between schools in affluent ZIP codes and those in less prosperous neighborhoods.

Education 142

Education Tutoring Cultures Leadership 142

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.

Charter School 139

Charter School Heritage Education K-12 139

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. Give us some leadership. I miss meeting kids from all over the city. But here in New York City, Mayor de Blasio used a bare-bones school reopening as a prop to claim success.

K-12 145

K-12 High School Elementary School History 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

If, after class, you read tweets by the same professor saying that black students are “generally inferior academically to white students” and that members of the LBGTQ community only want marriage rights “to get spousal fringe benefits from the government,” you might find fault with your professor’s boss for not firing the prejudiced chauvinist.

Controversial Topics 115

Controversial Topics Leadership Charter School Government 115

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Ignoring the deep history between civil rights organizations and organized labor, reformers have charged the NAACP with working alongside unions as if corporate America has done black folk many favors. “If If we’ve learned anything from the history of black education, it is that dual systems don’t work.”.

Charter School 111

Charter School Social Justice Public School History 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Children can also collect and publish oral histories about a place. Many sectors, including food and farming, architecture and design, business, government and urban and rural planning are making a shift toward sustainability. Distinguishing weather from climate is a good foundational step.

Oral History 117

Oral History Education Leadership High School 117

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

EdClusters are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (families, local government, nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region. All of this work is enveloped in the history of the region.

K-12 119

K-12 Public School Elementary School Cultures 119

Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics.

Anthropology 100

Anthropology Government Sociology Economics 100

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The threshold for approving proposals is now 85 percent, not 100.

Charter School 139

Charter School Government Sociology Social Studies 139

ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Settler Identity There are many teachers of color that can trace their arrivals - whether voluntarily or forced - back to lands occupied by the United States government. Despite our history, we must contend with the fact that we are settlers with values and beliefs that may not align with Indigenous and Native communities.

Ancestry 133

Ancestry Heritage Cultures History 133

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. In the end, a leadership change paved the way to victory in Holmes County.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Public School High School Government 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Troy Alim, who has been a social justice activist for the past several years, said he is inspired by the leadership of young Black students and agrees that most of the university statements are window dressing. “I The University of Mississippi, commonly known as Ole Miss, has a long, well-documented history of racism.

Advocacy 145

Advocacy Social Justice History Cultures 145

ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

miseducAsian Twitter/X chats, ongoing digital conversations with a network of justice-oriented Asian Pacific Islander Desi American [APIDA] educators catalyzing liberatory educational change by countering miseducation that silences and obscures Asian American histories and stories). after COVID-19.

K-12 121

K-12 Education Professional Development American History 121

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Without advice from a counselor, D’naysha Griggs says she would not have known how to talk about her work history and family obligations in her college applications. Griggs’ work history and family commitments might seem like key selling points for colleges that say they value grit, time management skills and maturity.

High School 143

High School History Leadership Economics 143

ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and walked through an exhibit that highlights the history of the building as well as former President John F. How Did We Get Here? Recently, I attended a performance at the John F. Kennedy’s support for the arts in America.

Education 145

Education Humanities K-12 High School 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

“The university has incurred a liability that is potentially millions of dollars,” said James Finkelstein, professor emeritus of public policy at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, who studies public universities’ presidential contracts. These are complex corporations that require real bold leadership.

Government 105

Government Leadership Economics Teaching 105

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. Maybe, just maybe, if [those] students were sitting in English and history class with men and women whom the U.S.

Political Science 109

Political Science Sociology High School Leadership 109

ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. As caregivers of the future, it is crucial that we are aware of what and who our country does not want our students to know and help them discover the truth of their history for themselves. According to the Nat Turner Project , when our U.S.

Humanities 98

Humanities Charter School History Teaching 98

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Consider the NHRC’s use of the phrase “licit and illicit” in principle 1.

Pedagogy 259

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research 259

ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

And that has implications for higher ed providers trying to promote non-degree programs as a way for people to get ahead in the workforce , as well as for government officials considering how to hold job-training programs accountable for student outcomes. This calls into question the value alternative credentials have for job seekers.

Tradition 111

Tradition Humanities Leadership High School 111

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. This was 2021, and Iowa had just passed its history censorship law. Here are highlights from the remarks. Why should we all be alarmed? They want to hurt trans kids.

Teaching 86

Teaching Social Justice Library Heritage 86

Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

“We are delighted to welcome Kim Mealy to this critical leadership role. We are very excited about this new chapter in the APSA’s evolution under Kim’s leadership,” said APSA President, Mark Warren. million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4 Dr. Kimberly A.

Political Science 69

Political Science Leadership Advocacy Human Rights 69

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

This is part of what is called curriculum leadership. We need to counter the tide of fake news, which is lifted by AI and the actions of governments in more than one country. The capabilities approach helps geography educators everywhere to articulate the importance of children learning how to think geographically.

Geography 52

Geography Teaching Pedagogy Library 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald. .”

High School 80

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 80

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Wise governments reward families who strive to propel their children. Related: A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South. Voters might recognize informed leadership, if or when it appears on the campaign trail. But how to remedy these stratifying effects?

Charter School 98

Charter School Tradition Public School Private School 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Alfred “Red” Joseph, a senior history and philosophy major, and Lyndsi Burcham, a junior psychology major, stand outside Irvine Auditorium before the opening ceremony of the fourth annual 1vyG Conference at Penn, holding the SWAG given to attendees bearing theme “Focusing on the Future.”

Leadership 92

Leadership Psychology Government History 92

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. Because local unions can reflect the racial attitudes of the confined geographic area, leadership and involvement from the national-level group is almost always necessary.

Economics 84

Economics Geography Civics History 84

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

Library 111

Library Government High School Civics 111