The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Reagan Rock, 14, grew up celebrating her Italian heritage. But the high school freshman at the Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, near Cape Cod, has recently leaned in to her little-explored Irish heritage. She didn’t know her family had mixed-race heritage. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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History Ancestry Heritage Project-Based Learning 140

C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As I walk down my hallways, I gaze at my students’ Black History Month posters that cover the walls and I realize how I’ve changed since my early years. But as I walk by these images, I wonder how the fresh-faced teacher who promised to never “teach” Black History Month has now decorated the whole school with Black images.

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Heritage American History Pedagogy History 52

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For six weeks, we spent 40 percent of our time at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) office and 60 percent of our time at partner institutions: the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC).

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