ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Sea Islands experiment, as it was known, marked a positive moment in the fraught history of Black education, notes education law expert Derek W. Government doesnt rely upon the good intentions of individuals. Government creates a system and an infrastructure to extend education to all. Religion cant do that.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

But many species have traveled across the globe throughout human history, including as part of human trade and migration patterns, and not all of them are seen as problematic. Especially when we broaden the historical scale of our question, the idea of species nativeness gets murkier. The red-ringed parakeet (a.k.a.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Youngbear and her colleagues work to connect with families in a way that acknowledges the history and needs of Native communities. Youngbear and her colleagues work to connect with families in a way that acknowledges the history and needs of Native communities. government boarding schools. government boarding schools. “If

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. Bureau of Indian Education, which are not run by traditional districts. government back in the past,” she said. “We Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2018

For many schools, this flies in the face of a traditional schooling mindset that was more geared to learners having to buy-in to a one-size-fits-all system where success was determined by how well everyone did under the same conditions more or less. This is not a new concept in any sense. This was one of my main focus areas as a principal.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In a memo sent to tribes in the region in March, government administrators expressed concern but said they were unable to deny the permit request. A postcard from early to mid-20th century shows Hopi dancers in traditional regalia in front of Hopi House, a building in honor of Hopi connections to the Grand Canyon.

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I want the books to be different from a traditional History or ELA class reading so that students understand the purpose of Ethnic studies is supposed to bring students and communities together. This year I have been reading a variety of new titles for my Intro to Ethnic Studies course.

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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. There was nothing like this.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher. When Azuela released his novel, Mexican literature was changed as we know it.

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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

São Tomé’s role in this devastating and transformational history is largely unknown—some people have never heard of the tiny nation. Our team aims to illuminate the island’s central and brutal place in world history. Reconstructing their experiences and Praia Melão’s place in history will take more research.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. But We Can’t Teach? Source: Alamy.In

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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 18, 2019

These Native American children are learning to play double ball , a traditional indigenous game, or at least that seems to be the focus of their activity. Like, playing double ball — that’s a traditional game. Our country has a long history of racial oppression, and education has too often been a weapon against the oppressed.

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ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

With limited funding, many communities deploy home visiting programs for specific populations, such as low-income families, single-parent households, recent immigrants and refugee families, families experiencing homelessness and those with a history of substance abuse. Many home visiting programs have been around for decades.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. plastic bags) from accumulating in the first place.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But taking money from Meta to build campus-specific metaverses is just the latest in higher education’s grand tradition of letting others profit off its inventions. Universities have a long history of innovating and then giving away the value they create. What might an “open metaverse” (sometimes referred to as Web3 ) be like?

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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. “This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

While many people can trace their family history back to a great-great-great-great grandfather who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in search of the famed “American Dream,” my ancestors inhabited the lands and waters in the Great Lakes region since the beginning of time itself. We are Anishinaabe peoples, also known as Ojibwe or Chippewa.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Most of these early college schools are now funded by local and state taxpayers, just as traditional high schools are, along with donations from other foundations. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. School traditions often connect one generation to the next, providing a sense of community stability and cohesion. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 26, 2024

We tackled the Boston Tea Party with Number Mania to dig into key details and wrapped up with an inquiry lesson on “having a voice in government.” It’s a fun and creative way to get them thinking beyond the text, and I was hoping it would engage their imaginations a bit more than traditional worksheets. Onward to the next lesson!

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Peru’s northern coast regularly suffers droughts followed by torrential rains, some so severe the Peruvian government has declared states of emergency multiple times over the past few years. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.

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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.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. But these are by far the exception.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

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? If we treat those outcomes as fixed, unless these schools diversify, we won’t have diverse leadership in government, business and academia.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Southeast Asia’s Ancient Cultural Heritage Beyond East Timor and Sulawesi, Australia holds some of the oldest continuous cultural heritage sites globally, reflecting its Indigenous populations' long history. Archaeological evidence in Australia dates back at least 60,000 years, highlighting the ancient roots of Aboriginal cultures.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. In 1995, filmmaker John Akomfrah crafts and experimental film essay titled Last Angel of History.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. Your history course may not specify that you are gaining skills in research, writing and evaluation logic.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

Fischer, and other German scholars recruited by the Russian government to report on the peoples of the newly explored eastern territories. Approaches: Ethnographic fieldwork tradition has a long history and it is rooted from the 19 th century enlightenment philosophy. Petersburg in the 1760s, where he ed with G. Müller, J.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. link] Reese, W.

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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. We all put in countless extra hours.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Online Degrees On Hold China actually has a long history of distance learning—mostly at correspondence schools and on broadcast TV. Noting that the Chinese government is very conservative, Wang remarked that the ministry is likely fearful that its academic reputation will suffer if it approved online degrees prematurely.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Foreign investors working with the Ecuadorean government started planning to extract minerals in the region on an industrial scale in the early 2000s. Since then, most of the promises that investors and government leaders made have soured; very little economic growth is visible among Shuar communities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

The stigma against job candidates with criminal records is so strong that, even with the skills they may have learned behind bars, many find it easier to start a business than get hired by one, said Marc Howard, a professor of government and law who helped start Georgetown University’s Pivot entrepreneurship program last year.

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