The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A look at the courses required by teacher preparation programs reveals scant attention to the broad social studies knowledge aspiring elementary teachers need to provide essential context to world events. Only 42 percent have said they felt very well prepared to teach social studies.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

17, 2023 • by Studies Weekly Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States have relied on emergency ESSER funding from the federal government to hire more teachers, purchase instructional resources, and more. The federal government offered three rounds of funds to public, private, and charter schools nationwide.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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? Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Lesson 5: Electing Congress and the President (Grades 4-5) first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

However, after taking matters into her own hands, Sheliya was able to find a person on social media that secured housing via Open Homes. Sheliya then brokered an agreement between local government officials and Airbnb to publish more data on the effectiveness of these types of programs in the city.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 6, 2024

Warmly, Debbie Learn more about Studies Weekly Teacher Advocate Debbie Bagley and how she can help you succeed with your Studies Weekly curriculum! February 26, 2024 The post Ways to Increase Student Memory Power first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2018

A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Just 44 percent of K-2 teachers felt they were “well prepared” to teach science, according to the survey, compared to 86 percent who felt well prepared to teach reading. hours per week on science during the 2011-12 school year, the last for which data is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Louis Park High School, just outside of Minneapolis, take time out of their social studies class for a team-building exercise that is part of the school’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks program. Sarah Lindenberg, a ninth-grade social studies teacher at St. Freshmen at St. But you’ve probably never heard of it.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In a number of states, including Louisiana, adult education — which ranges from basic literacy to vocational training to high-school equivalency testing — is lumped with technical and community colleges, separate from the K-12 system. My grades were perfect. Teachers might tell me to go to school,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Related: How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world. Governments and schools can provide education that enables students to engage in their communities and contribute to a better world. My classmates and I then examined the impact of Abbeville County School District, et al. I wanted to learn more.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“In social studies, there might be more area for debate as far as what’s the best route that a government might take to mitigate the issue.”. “What I try to explain to them is that in science, we don’t debate the science, because the science is settled,” Lau says.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Those sticker prices are a big barrier for policymakers, who must weigh preschool against a wide array of other potential government programs while also trying to minimize or reduce taxes and government spending. Currently, states with preschool programs spend between roughly $1,700 and $16,400 per student per year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I By 2021, schools must offer diplomas based students reaching proficiency in the four core academic subject areas: English, math, science and social studies.

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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. In 2011, South Carolina established academic standards for what students should learn in social studies classes, including “the economic necessity of slave labor.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

While no guidelines on classroom technology govern the network, according to Berger, there is a shared wariness of anything that might undermine EL’s collaborative ethos. As a prelude to discussing leadership, peer pressure and conflict, a Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, played a game called “Instigator.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

NEW YORK — Social studies teacher Karen Rose stepped out of New Rochelle High School last month for what will likely be the last time. Karen Rose, a social studies teacher at New Rochelle High School, with Daniel Delgado, one of her former students. She worries about the students she hasn’t heard from.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

I supported the legislation’s focus on wraparound services and universal pre-K for families, as I’ve seen the many benefits these services have had in our community. In addition, educators who are looking to immediately implement social and emotional learning (SEL) activities can make use of existing funding and programs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

But so far, he said, the push for universal preschool here has proven to be “a great example of what a municipal government can do when focused on a really ambitious goal.”. I’m having a conversation about kindergarten teachers using best practices from pre-K now,” she said. “I Photo: Jamie Martines.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the State Education Department had rejected 35% of the social studies textbooks submitted for review because of leftist content. The DeSantis administration objects to any references to “social justice” or negative references to capitalism. history and world history courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

I teach social studies in Edmonton, Alberta in what we would consider a medium-sized school of slightly under a thousand students. Education is a provincial responsibility in Canada and is highly centralized by the Alberta government. Related: Light a Fuse: How one state’s teachers are sparking digital innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

I always wanted to teach higher-level history and government,” said Ray Mertz, a social studies teacher who joined Meadowbrook in 2014. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes. They expect to add five more next year. “I Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report .

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Curtatone encouraged Resnick and Duffy to take advantage of Massachusetts’ Innovation Schools provision, which offers public schools much of the flexibility charters enjoy without the independent governance that makes charter opponents bristle. That first year, students in Steve Stephano’s seventh grade math class made moving machines.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

About 644,000 Native students attend the nation’s K-12 system, with the vast majority enrolled in public schools, according to the National Congress of American Indians. A lot of it is social studies, among other subjects, and a lot of it is cultural teachings,” she said. “It’s 12, 2021, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

The federal government suggests states pay child care providers less than market rate, at the 75th percentile. Another lived on government assistance. Teachers with a bachelor’s degree or higher earn more if they work in a school-based public pre-K, for example, than if they work in a federally-funded Head Start center.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School social studies teacher. Fortunately, long-neglected civics education seems to be on the rebound in many states, which has helped groups like the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University get their message into K-12 classrooms. Janis Schachter, Northport (N.Y.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

Most of those gains were lost, however, in 1877 when the federal government pulled troops out of the South. Once the federal government left, a backlash began. The creators of the Teach Reconstruction project are actively campaigning for the inclusion of lessons about Reconstruction in history and social studies classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Over in a far corner, a third group traded opinions on whether to accept management’s proposal to offer new hires 401(k)s instead of pensions. For most of the students, it was the first time they were exposed to what unions do — not to mention their first encounter with terms like “HR,” “401(k)” and “union security.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

government. Yet how do our schools prepare them for these actions when the civics topics they learn in school do not include logical and critical thinking about how government systems work, and how public engagement in the processes can create the change they hope to see? Who is in charge of the executive branch?

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Civics Civic Engagement Government Critical Thinking 74

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In July, President Donald Trump and his Federal Commission on School Safety issued a call to “ harden ” schools, and making sure “our schools are safe and secure, just like our airports, stadiums, and government buildings.”

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Elementary School Middle School Social Studies Government 110

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Lesson 12: Election and Electoral College (Grades K-3) Oct. 12, 2020 • Studies Weekly Background Knowledge for Teachers: In the beginning of the United States, the Founding Fathers didn’t want a direct election for the new president and vice president. At the time, many people lived in distant rural areas.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Related: Inside the oil industry’s not-so-subtle push into K-12 education. Our conversations with young people across the state reveal that even in high school government, history, and debate classes, most students remain in the dark in terms of their most local governance. We need to learn civics from the ground up.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

The board is currently reviewing the state’s K-12 health standards, which mention suicide prevention parenthetically. Currently 12 states, including Texas and Vermont, require that education on suicide awareness and prevention be included in the curriculum, according to an email from Gibson. She started off with a list of myths.

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