Heritage, History and Private School - Social Studies Network

Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. My desire to know exploded.

History

History Teaching Sociology Oral History

A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

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 Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it. You know how Ms.

Charter School

Charter School History Library Public School

India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. Jaisalmer, India — Once a year, history lecturer Vijay Kumar Ballani and his colleagues go door-to-door in this rural village, imploring parents to send their children to a cinderblock complex that lacks classroom space, bathrooms and desks.

Heritage

Heritage Government Economics High School

New Orleans schools still struggle with integration

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

School officials tout the arts-based curriculum and the joy they say it brings students, but acknowledge that side-lining test preparation has caused test scores to suffer and lowered the performance grades the school receives from the state education department. New Orleans has always been a deeply divided school system.

Economics

Economics Charter School Public School Heritage

Can private Pre-K for All providers survive in New York City?

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. Yet not a single teacher in this private preschool in Bensonhurst has a master’s degree and nearly half do not return each year.

Public School

Public School Heritage Artifacts Private School

A Conversation About School Choice

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

The appeal of this idea can be backed up with data — a 2023 poll asked this question: School choice gives parents the right to use the tax dollars designated for their child’s education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs. It’s certainly true for charter schools.

Charter School

Charter School Private School Public School Pedagogy

States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

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. I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

American History

American History History K-12 Cultures

‘We just pick up the pieces’: As a new school year starts, this Mississippi Delta community is fighting for survival

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

For Jefferson, the window is narrowing on making a decision on where — and how — her nephew will return to school. Public schools in Holmes County will start school online next month. If you live outside of the city limits, any type of internet other than dial up is almost impossible,” Clark said.

Heritage

Heritage Advocacy Public School Private School

How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Credit: Matt Stensland for The Hechinger Report Once there, however, Siyuja discovered how little shed learned at the Supai school. 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.

Education

Education Elementary School Government K-12

Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

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. schools becomes more pronounced in many places, and as hate crimes against minorities increase in schools and communities and the U.S.

Charter School

Charter School Private School Heritage High School

Education nominee McMahon says she supports calls to dismantle the agency but that funding wouldn’t be affected

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Many schools have no idea whats allowed, Murphy said, because the order doesnt clearly define whats prohibited. 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. So whats the remedy?

K-12

K-12 Education Private School Heritage

OPINION: Trump is back. We’re still waiting on his plan for schools

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Trump talks about schools secretly imposing gender transition surgery on children. Finally, it’s likely that the administration will try to voucherize more public dollars to support families sending their children to private schools. Related: Become a lifelong learner. But, again, all of this is light on substance.

K-12

K-12 Heritage Civics Leadership

Tears, sleepless nights and small victories: How first-year teachers are weathering the crisis

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

Paul, Minnesota, native, studied Spanish and history at Marquette University in Wisconsin. Twelve miles south of Western Middle, at Stuart Academy, another middle school in Louisville, eighth grade math teacher Louis Redd was beginning to grasp how much his students were struggling. Amia, a St. Credit: Bianca Bagnarelli / for NBC News.

Middle School

Middle School Heritage Teaching High School

What education could look like under Trump and Vance

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools. 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.

K-12

K-12 Education Private School Charter School

Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

New Orleans schools still struggle with integration

Can private Pre-K for All providers survive in New York City?

A Conversation About School Choice

States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

‘We just pick up the pieces’: As a new school year starts, this Mississippi Delta community is fighting for survival

How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

Education nominee McMahon says she supports calls to dismantle the agency but that funding wouldn’t be affected

OPINION: Trump is back. We’re still waiting on his plan for schools

Tears, sleepless nights and small victories: How first-year teachers are weathering the crisis

What education could look like under Trump and Vance

Stay Connected