The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It was clear to me that, in most cases, if your school was just a traditional neighborhood school, located in a poor neighborhood and/or not classified as a focused school for high-performing students, funding and educational opportunities were scarce.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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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.

Anthropology 130

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Many schools rely on counting noses at traditional Back-to-School nights or parent-teacher conferences to gauge whether parents are engaged in their children’s learning. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. As a bonus, the location prompted her to get library cards for the family.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All three strategies are in large part a reproach to traditional higher education, which has often failed to provide the right programs to the people who increasingly need them. Some of these new efforts are dramatically different from traditional higher education experiences, and their focus is almost entirely on nontraditional students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. About 65 percent of India’s students attend similar government schools, many with dismal outcomes. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. He gives the same stock speech. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. With over 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Half a million people have left Puerto Rico in the last decade, first after the government cut services in a scramble to try and pay back its $123 billion in debt and then in response to the catastrophe of Hurricane Maria. She has lots of ideas: tutoring services, a library, a theater, a kitchen, case managers, social workers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

Lillian Agard looks on as her 3-year-old granddaughter Siena paints and colors at the art table during free choice at the Y’s pop-up preschool in the Hillview library in East San Jose. Just an hour earlier, this room in the Hillview neighborhood library of East San Jose, California, was completely empty. Photo: Kathryn Baron.

Library 75

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Apart from its golden-domed headquarters, the campus also includes tyrbes (holy tombs of previous Debedabas); extensive archives on the Order’s history, including audio recordings of Bektashi musical traditions; and a museum and a library. Strange Maps #125x Got a strange map? Let me know at strangemaps@gmail.com.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

It is also a time for teachers and students to examine the school curriculum and library. For example, third graders in San Marcos, California assessed their own school library and took steps to ensure it was more representative. That traditional narrative is reinforced every day. history standards ?

History 75

History Elementary School Library Civics 75

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases. That means developing a skill that is hard to come by for many students of government and politics: namely, seeing that strong arguments exist on both sides of controversial issues.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. Syracuse also stands out for having the highest suspension rate among the state’s traditional school districts. She points out, however, that they do get a period of music, art, physical education or library time every day.

Elementary School 77

Elementary School Charter School Tradition Education Policy 77

Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

2022) and teaches courses on the World Wars and Modern America for the Master of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University. At the same time, the new Bolshevik government is engaged in peace talks with Germany. 1926) Library of Congress. How about a document on the 1920s? Held, John, Jr.

American History 52

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

which Powell describes as an isolated world of “sacred peaks, spirits and clans” where homelessness, alcoholism and unemployment are as rampant as books and libraries are scarce. Will they be content, he asks, to hang out at the local supermarket, live at home and wait for their grandmother’s government checks?

High School 84

High School Library Cultures Government 84

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI). Many EdClusters shared pain points but also creative approaches to sustaining their work.

K-12 78

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Despite minimizing traditional Buddhist scripture-chanting and rituals, I found Tzu Chi members were deeply religious, and their daily activities were highly ritualized. The Taiwan government now champions multiculturalism and the teaching of indigenous languages and cultures in the schools.

Anthropology 52

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. The principal reason their institutions are pushing dual-credit programs, administrators said in a survey , is that, with traditional enrollments plummeting , it gets high school students on the hook and helps recruit them. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue. Leave this field empty if you're human: Sitting on the floor of their library, the dozens of students dressed in red and navy blue were an eager audience. Weekly Update.

Charter School 95

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In addition to employing qualified elementary, middle and high school music teachers, David Douglas offers inexpensive instrument rentals ($25 per year), a library of musical scores, connections to reduced-price or free private lessons and a closet of free marching band uniforms and orchestra dress blacks, among other necessities.

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Steven V. Miller

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It’s already going to be an interesting experience breaking the traditional link to Stata on the curriculum in favor of R. Democracy is more likely to emerge as a system of governance in the absence of violent conflict to settle questions of redistribution. Here are the R packages I’ll be using in this post.

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Library Economics Artifacts Social Science 52

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teacher authority to make decisions regarding curriculum, the processes of their own learning, and aspects of school governance. Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; The Wallace Foundation, 2012 ). Focus on Student Learning. Continuous Teacher Learning. Lesson study.

Research 54

Research Education Professional Development Leadership 54

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courtesy of Denver Public Library. Most of Colorado’s white settlers and their leaders did not understand tribal government. Plains Indian Tribes such as the Cheyenne and Arapaho were not united under a governing alliance. Buffalo were disappearing from their traditional hunting grounds, and their people were hungry.

American History 98

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

It’s still just not even close to what the traditional public schools go through. And so if you have an existing traditional public school and you lose a class of children, probably it’s not going to close the school, but it does create a financial challenge because you’re losing some of those dollars. Come back for more.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them. This responsibility is sacred, transcending the expectations of a traditional occupation.

Education 129

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The state’s rugged landscape, its patchwork of state, federal and tribal land ownership, and the minimal coordination between internet providers and government agencies combine to keep New Mexico consistently near the bottom on national surveys measuring internet access in homes. How do those get addressed?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The free tool, called SkillsEngine , contains a large digital library of skills—more than 20,000 of them—needed for all the jobs you can think of—and, importantly, for occupations that don’t even exist yet. The traditional resume? This is why job skills are having a moment. Housed in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Now red-state governors increasingly use the takeovers to undermine the political power of cities, particularly those governed by Black and Hispanic leaders, according to some education experts. “I’ve Libraries in those schools are being turned into centers where students considered disruptive will participate remotely.

Charter School 98

Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Adelmann is vice president of strategic partnerships at Follett School & Library Group, a corporate supporter of Digital Promise. A tension between our comfort with traditional top-down, structured adoption and discomfort with loosely governed, bottom-up innovation fueled by teacher explorers and (ready or not!)

K-12 87

K-12 Pedagogy Library Professional Development 87

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

Consequently, this will be a major blow to those in government jobs with high unionization rates like protective services, library services and education. I also saw Democrats claim political agnosticism, working alongside the likes of Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, who also tried to convert more traditional schools to charters.

Charter School 84

Charter School Leadership Library Government 84

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

They also say it’s in the universities’ self-interest, coming as it does at a time when decaying surroundings and urban crime discourage applicants, cash-strapped local governments are pushing these nonprofit institutions to pay more for the services they get, and the public has a low opinion of college costs, management and value.

Civics 83

Civics Civic Engagement Economics Museum 83

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

K-12 75

K-12 High School Cultures Psychology 75

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Distribution of Delmont’s book is a direct challenge to the widespread removal of books from libraries and classrooms across the country. Additionally, the book was fascinating and engaging to read, and I really appreciate the Zinn Education Project for providing this book to me for free to add to my personal and professional library.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

He’s encountered subs in the hallway, looking for the library or a place to make copies of classwork. The federal government provided billions of dollars to help schools recover from Covid, and some tapped that money for temporary stipends to attract new substitutes. But the stakes to find more permanent solutions are high.

Elementary School 137

Elementary School High School Public School Advocacy 137

Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The movement to “decolonize pedagogy” is the process of moving away from representing our disciplines with traditional sources – mostly White men. Opt for cost-effective alternatives like open-access texts and library resources to alleviate stress and remove barriers. However, there is more that we can do.

Pedagogy 40

Pedagogy Anthropology Cultures Psychology 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Lindsey Kimery, the coordinator of library services for Metro-Nashville Public Schools, said she has “no hidden agenda other than that reading was my favorite thing.” What I try to convey is that a library is a place for voluntary inquiry.” It just means we have books for those readers, too. She recalled receiving the letter. “I

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Library Heritage K-12 High School 131