The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to. I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Given the history of settler colonialism and the use of Native boarding schools that sought to erase Native identity, making sure that students’ tribal knowledge and traditions are celebrated and integrated into the curriculum will allow students to succeed, the report’s authors say.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

As a teacher in Hawaiʻi, I am keenly aware and reminded of my identity as a "local" teacher, one whose family heritage traces back generations in the same community. Teachers of Color After student teaching on the US continent in a high school, I felt so isolated as the only Asian adult on campus.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

“We would like to take this moment to acknowledge the Dena’ina Athabascan people and the wisdom that has allowed them to steward the land on which Anchorage and Service High School reside,” the high school senior said. This story also appeared in High Country News. David Paoli, who is Iñupiaq from U?alaq?iq,

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2019

When it came time for high school, my dad made the decision to move us to the wealthier, whiter community of Bayonne, New Jersey. In my new school, I worried about how I dressed, or that maybe I was too “ghetto” for the people who had more money. The history we were learning about was my history, too.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In upstate New York, a high school English teacher said, “I remember driving into school not wanting to go in, being really sad and just crying. I thought to myself, ‘I don't have anyone that I could talk to in my entire school that has any idea about what's going on right now.’” on March 21, 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2021

My former high school students in rural Arkansas now teach at the schools they attended during their childhoods, in the same political conditions of Blackness in which I taught them in my civics class in 2014, as they tried to process the Ferguson, Missouri, police killing of Mike Brown , a man they had never met but who looked like them.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

New Milford High School joined thousands of other schools and educators across the country to showcase how digital learning is changing education. The only thing though is that this day was just like any other typical day at my school as digital learning has become an embedded component of our school''s culture.

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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. Desert’’ for his knowledge of this area, also gives tours of the golden forts and palaces of Rajasthan when he isn’t teaching or pushing villagers to keep children in school. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. No one will cheat you.”.

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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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

In this 2017 photo, students present their history projects at a New York City high school for recent immigrants and refugees. years of education, on average, which is the equivalent of a high school diploma plus nearly two and a half years of college. He married a Jewish-American woman of European heritage.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? The report, released in May during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, surveyed over 5,000 Americans from diverse backgrounds and includes findings about Asian American stereotypes, visibility and acceptance. There are signs of progress. Nationally, in 2021, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

For knowledge of the area’s history, O utsider researchers naturally draw on ethnographic, historic, and archaeological data—but their knowledge of the details is patchy. Often referred to as “cottage country,” that Anglophone settler-Canadian term for small wooden cabins on “pristine” lakes erases millennia of Indigenous history.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. They said they found inspiration for ideas they could use in the plan in places like Montana, where high schoolers can earn a seal of biliteracy on their diplomas for proficiency in Indigenous languages.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

A Google search led him to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a state flagship school with prize-winning economists and a history of indigenous activism. They’re more likely than white students to have graduated from low-performing high schools. The reasons native students lag behind in college completion are many.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

And this is what happened all the way through middle school and high school.” and isn’t even fluent in their heritage language, this can be heartbreaking. . “When you listen to me talk, you’re like, okay, he’s really fluent. We don’t need to help him. My teachers are great. You’re pulled out.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2019

It wasn’t until my first day of high school, in history, that a window of understanding was opened for me. The teacher used a curriculum from Facing History and Ourselves , an educational nonprofit that provides teachers with tools to engage their students in examining bigotry. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

In my own teacher training many years ago, I took various courses in curriculum theory, classroom management, education history and educational psychology along with content-based courses like political science, economics and history. Related: Will high school segregation for refugees lead to better integration?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!” Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. Czarnecki says.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

There were Somali, Iraqi, Burmese, Bhutanese, Ethiopian and Latin American teenagers — all learning English, math, history and science in an eleven-room, domed building. Many of the student arrivals, especially the older ones, struggled in the local high schools. But was GEO International the right response?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The history of the Amigos School, a dual-language program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, shows that even seemingly minor changes to admissions processes can significantly shape how a school is perceived — and who applies — tilting preference toward privilege.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

Paul, Minnesota, native, studied Spanish and history at Marquette University in Wisconsin. Louis and Amia are Black educators in a district with a thorny, and at times painful, history of desegregation efforts that even the district’s superintendent said “isn’t equitable.” Amia, a St. Credit: Bianca Bagnarelli / for NBC News.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Gist, who runs the Migration Heritage Foundation, which documents the county’s history and provides aid to students, said the number of teenagers in the county applying for a fellowship to help cover textbook costs went from 16 last year to three this spring. Gist knows the disconnection comes at grave cost for students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I grew up and attended schools in the South in an area known as the Black Belt , a name given to the region because of its large Black population and black soil. I never took a course in African American history during that time, the late 1980s and early 90s, despite being enveloped in Blackness in my neighborhoods, churches and schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A block dominated by houses with peeling paint and patched shingles gives way to the massive dull-brick facade of North Division High School, Fuller’s alma mater. The former Milwaukee schools superintendent and longtime school choice advocate pauses. Black schools for black children. As racial separation in U.S.

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Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Chris Tackett, a political campaign finance expert, tweeted a photo of a man in a hoodie leaving the high school library in Granbury ISD pulling a dolly of cardboard boxes labeled “Krause’s List.” A few weeks prior, the group hosted a talk titled “Book Censorship in Our Schools” at the Central Fire Station in Ithaca, New York.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Related link: How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Starting in 2020, the office began putting together educator guides out of “a real and immediate need” to address political events, school shootings, hate crimes and various heritage months, as topics within the classroom, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

That meant Cristian started his first day of school in America without a hug from his mom or a reassuring smile from his dad. Nor did he walk into school with his brother. In 2018, for the first time in district history, a majority of Sioux City’s 14,976 students, about 52 percent, were people of color.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

High school students hold a banner while marching to the South Boulder Recreation Center to vote and turn in election ballots in early voting in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday October 25, 2018. It’s obvious that black history is needed all year long. It was a sign of things to come. Racism is taught.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

One of the first images to greet visitors to Taylor High School in Cleves, Ohio, is a mural dedicated to Malala Yousafzai , the Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize recipient, who was shot in the head because she believes girls should be able to go to school. citizens. In so doing, the former president has deprived U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 15, 2024

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. Textbooks and high-stakes testing have also long distorted curricula. and the Phillips County Retired Teachers Association at the Eliza Miller Junior and Senior High School Historic Site, named for educator and philanthropist Eliza Ann Ross Miller.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S.

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