The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The program trains educators at K-12 schools whose students include Native children on different ways they can introduce young people to programming, robotics and coding. Correction: This sentence has been updated with the correct version of Sealaska Heritage Institute’s name.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

Pseudoarchaeology, or “alternative history,” draws major attention and casts itself as legitimate. Beyond Hancock’s creations, Ancient Aliens dominates the History Channel. K–12 schools in the U.S. Pseudoarchaeology robs Indigenous peoples of their heritage. rarely cover the field.

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Archaeology Heritage K-12 History 145

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. and marched to Chinatown on March 12, 2021. When they look back on that day, many remember feeling very alone. schools in recent years. on March 21, 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

The plan will cover early childhood, K-12 and higher education, but also extend to “academic settings throughout adulthood and a person’s entire lifetime.” Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. It’s very empowering,” said Cummins, who previously ran Crow language programs in schools in Montana.

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Teaching K-12 Heritage Government 144

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It turns out my skillset helps map places and histories that are significant in Wajãpi Oral Traditions. Together, we record every mark of the past as a relevant piece of history on Wajãpi Indigenous Land. We document their places and histories through GPS mapping, audio recordings, drawings, and photographs.

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Archaeology Heritage K-12 History 120

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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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. I decided to stand up for myself and for others.

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Heritage History High School Research 107

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2019

Then I took a class with Gene Woods, following the Facing History and Ourselves curriculum. Teaching students about their heritage, and about other groups’ heritage, allows students to break free of stereotypes and appreciate their challenges and triumphs. The history we were learning about was my history, too.

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Heritage History High School Humanities 92

ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

It is the mission of the Delta Cultural Center to preserve, interpret and present the cultural heritage of this legendary 27-county area. It is the mission of the Delta Cultural Center to research, document, interpret and present the heritage of the people of the Arkansas Delta.

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Cultures Heritage K-12 Museum 52

TCI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

TCI’s free social studies activities will keep students engaged throughout the year as they explore the history behind Labor Day and biographies for Black History Month. Review the list to find seasonal social studies lessons, primary source activities, and biographies for K-12 classrooms. Get the lessons. presidents.

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Social Studies Primary Sources Heritage K-12 52

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 17, 2023

According to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, these ancient human relatives possessed distinctive physical traits such as larger noses, angled cheekbones, and sturdy physiques. A model of a Neanderthal male on display at the Natural History Museum in London. 1 Velazquez-Arcelay, K., Colbran, L.

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Museum K-12 Heritage Humanities 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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High School Heritage Economics Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In rural Rajasthan, construction will soon be underway for a new all-girls school that will showcase local goods and heritage handiwork in this former medieval trading center, while combining education and economic development for local women. Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. With over 1.3

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Heritage Government Economics High School 80

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. He married a Jewish-American woman of European heritage. A new study finds that most immigrant groups meet or surpass average U.S. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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Ancestry Education Heritage Economics 95

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. The result has been both the richness and the complexity of diversity.

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Heritage Political Science Government Psychology 69

Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

So, if I was going to make, develop an op-ed around Native American history and culture I’ve written books, received grants and so on, I’m well prepared to make that argument. In this 2000-word article I break down the organization, benefits and subsequent challenges of teaching archaeology at the K-12 level.

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Anthropology Archaeology Artifacts Heritage 122

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school, located in the nearby 7 th Ward, had opened its doors to kids in pre-K through second grade the year before. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation also partners with Plessy, and for three years has used a community grant to fund strings instruction for students under violinist and violist Amelia Clingman.

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Economics Charter School Public School Heritage 76

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a nod to the cultural heritage of its surrounding neighborhood, two displays feature Chinese-themed art, including pretty sprays of cherry blossoms and red and gold lanterns. ” Related: Quality of pre-K varies in New York, data shows. Students wait for pre-lunch story time at Little Scholars Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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Public School Heritage Artifacts Private School 58

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. Excerpts from our interviews with Asian American K-12 teachers shed light on some of these nuances.

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Heritage Education K-12 American History 101

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

12, where students learn in both English and Spanish, the process can be both bureaucratic and baffling. 12 well enough to enroll her younger child there, too. For parents applying to the dual-language program at Rochester, New York’s public school No. I just wish it were more accessible,” she said.

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Heritage K-12 Human Rights High School 134

ACRE

JUNE 21, 2023

The Lakeport Plantation, an Arkansas State University Heritage Site, in Lake Village, Arkansas is one of the only remaining antebellum homes in Arkansas on the Mississippi River. K-12 teachers, did you know there is grant funding available for field trips to historic Arkansas sites?

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Heritage K-12 Museum Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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. My knowledge of Black history came as sprinkling rain, a paltry amount that was never enough to have a significant impact.

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Heritage Cultures K-12 American History 98

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. Gregory Wickenkamp , educator and Iowa City event host A few years ago I was pushed out of K-12 teaching when politicians scapegoated my teaching practice.

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Teaching Social Justice Library Heritage 86

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

American History 145

American History History K-12 Cultures 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Credit: Eric Gay/ Associated Press Districts had until November 12, less than a month, to respond. Island Trees Union Free School District board members mixed with representatives from the Heritage Foundation and parents opposed to school desegregation in Boston. This alarmed librarians. for short). Mellon of PONY-U.

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Library Heritage K-12 High School 129

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. He acknowledges that there are “well-meaning people in the building … teachers and administrators who have the kids’ best interests at heart.” As racial separation in U.S.

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Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

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. No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Gitu Gobana, 12, moved to the U.S. The country as a whole passed that benchmark in 2014.)

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Middle School Cultures High School Tutoring 104

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

PEN America’s report does not reflect the banning of unique titles, so if a dozen school districts all banned the same book, it would count as 12 bans, a PEN representative explained. While you teach students about our nation’s past, these extremists attack the freedom to learn and acknowledge our nation’s true and full history,” she said. “We

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Library Heritage K-12 Public School 134

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. Students at GEO International High School, who are all recent immigrants or refugees, present their history projects to the class. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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High School K-12 History Heritage 85

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 1926, he originated the celebration of Black History Week and is the author of 16 books about African Americans. Last year Vice President Mike Pence commemorated the start of Black History Month (BLM) by acknowledging Abraham Lincoln, a white man, for submitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. Photo: AP Photo.

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History Multicultural Education American History Heritage 88

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. She graduated valedictorian of her class.

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Education Elementary School Government K-12 104

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 15, 2024

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. She received an enthusiastic response, with many educators affirming the need to teach banned books and banned history. From there, participants heard about the history and present day efforts to protect the Wyandot burial grounds.

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Teaching Library Museum Social Justice 87

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Worse yet, some of conservatives’ K–12 ideas are at war with themselves. So they’re promising not to nationalize how schools teach history, except when they don’t like how certain schools teach history. Now, there was a detailed conservative plan for federal K–12 education drifting around during the campaign.

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K-12 Heritage Civics Leadership 110

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education. Day and Black History Month should be permitted, after Murphy noted that U.S. Department of Defense schools would no longer celebrate Black History Month in response to Trumps order. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat from New Hampshire. Thats pretty chilling, Murphy said.

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K-12 Education Private School Heritage 78

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, are persistent critics of public K-12 schools and higher education and want to overhaul many aspects of how the institutions operate. Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools.

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K-12 Education Private School Charter School 127

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Weeks after the House passed the Build Back Better Act — which had included $400 billion over 10 years for universal pre-K and affordable child care — West Virginia Sen. Given the political polarization and our lack of a history or tradition of social democratic support for public social service … I don’t see that happening,” she said.

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Government K-12 Heritage Research 143