ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In one case, a teacher wished to increase the diversity of her classroom library. Using “ A Tool for Selecting Diverse Texts ”, the teacher conducted an audit of the classroom library and determined its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities: Which voices are dominant, and which ones are missing? Why are they all men?” they asked.

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Library Heritage K-12 Cultures 122

Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Oakhurst farm, near Hoekwil, South Africa (Image credit: Courtesy of the University of Cape Town Libraries, Special Collections Goodwin, image number A21) The Importance of Africa in Human Genetic History Africa, the origin of Homo sapiens , holds the greatest genetic diversity of any continent. 1 Gretzinger, J., Gibbon, V. Penske, S.

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Heritage Archaeology Ancestry Artifacts 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties. The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C.

Heritage 125

Heritage Artifacts Local History Social Studies 125

Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

This discovery lends further support to the emerging "tripartite origins" theory, suggesting that the genetic heritage of the Japanese population is far more complex than earlier models suggested. The team also discovered variants in genes associated with hearing loss and chronic liver disease that are more prevalent in Japanese populations.

Ancestry 98

Ancestry Heritage Humanities Library 98

NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant, our 3-day long programming has guided hundreds of teachers in exploring how technology has shaped history while simultaneously developing teachers’ ability to design, implement, evaluate, and share primary source based historical inquiry.

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Primary Sources Archiving Library Museum 100

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools. She is the co-author, along with Valerie Tagoe, of the 2022 book Liven Up Your Library: Design Engaging and Inclusive Programs for Tweens and Teens ( Amazon | Bookshop ). It’s a win-win-win-win-win.”

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Library Social Justice Pedagogy Humanities 249

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

It benefits Latino children to have a Latino provider because they have the same lived experience, same heritage — it’s easier for them to connect to families, to get more family engagement.” Werth recalled the library closing around them one evening as they helped participants use computers for the first time.

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Advocacy Heritage Library Elementary School 133

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. Small project, ‘global impact’. A small project can have a global impact,’’ Daube said. With over 1.3

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Heritage Government Economics High School 79

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

SAPIENS’ 2024 poet-in-residence conjures the voices of those imprisoned in archives. they come out from the shadows and all at once. their hollowed faces discernible only by the ruthless curves and lines of numbers and catalogues, colonial categorizations that prefer Order and Systems, filing cabinets over memory—the small intricacies of being.

Archiving 102

Archiving Library Museum Heritage 102

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Their classroom libraries stock books by Isabel Allende and other Latin American literary giants. “In Muñiz Academy teachers, 65 percent of whom are Latino, strive to create an environment that celebrates their students’ heritage and allows them to embrace this piece of their identities. For some students, that fills an aching need.

High School 112

High School Heritage Economics Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

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. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs. In the school’s first year, every child had library every day.

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Charter School History Library Public School 107

Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Classroom Layout and Furniture Flexible Seating Incorporate a variety of seating options, like traditional desks for seat work time, bean bags for the class library, other types of seating for listening, art, and science centers, and floor cushions to accommodate different learning styles and other center activities.

Heritage 52

Heritage Primary Sources Library Lesson Plan 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

and isn’t even fluent in their heritage language, this can be heartbreaking. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. You’re pulled out. So what is the problem?

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Heritage Teaching Library 130

Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Our mission has always been to communicate knowledge, highlight African contributions to the world’s cultural heritage, and to create. Organizations like ours cannot, and should not simply stop existing. We will reorganize, regroup, and keep fighting. As we’ve always done. Images included with the artist’s permission.

Heritage 52

Heritage Cultures History Archiving 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

“And the reality is that the Arab heritage and the Arab culture is something that is across content areas. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading.

Social Studies 130

Social Studies Cultures History Pedagogy 130

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

Places like the Heritage Foundation have literally published papers saying, you know, we should use culture war issues to win legislatively on choice, that we should attack public education. And that’s been a really notable change in the way people are talking about it. And it’s not even a subtle one. It’s not like a conspiracy theory.

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Charter School Private School Public School Pedagogy 238

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.”

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

These past few months I have been working with educators whose Rainbow Library books have been seized by administrators. Billionaire dark money funded the conservative infrastructure that initiated attacks on critical race theory and DEI at all levels of education led by the Heritage Foundation. But it doesn’t end there.

Teaching 86

Teaching Social Justice Library Heritage 86

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. Ríos, the school’s librarian, holds a paper flower made by students for a Mexican heritage celebration.

High School 115

High School Public School Heritage Tradition 115

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. This alarmed librarians.

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Library Heritage K-12 High School 128

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

They include Julia Alvarez’s 1991 novel, “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,” about four immigrant sisters from the Dominican Republic — a popular pick for readers during Latinx Heritage Month. The Tennessee law requires schools to remove books with gratuitous violence or sexual content.

Library 134

Library Heritage K-12 Public School 134

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

The president is also ushering in a new era of anxiety, inciting deportation fears that are keeping immigrant children out of school and acting on some of the very same ideas he once dissociated himself from in the Heritage Foundations Project 2025 road map for his next administration. classrooms and advocating for clear guidelines.

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Cultures Education Library Heritage 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

The two schools share the gym, cafeteria and library. Their “Heritage Night” drew 100 students and family members; one by one, two dozen students stood up to tell one of their memories of home. “We thought they were trying to get rid of us, just kick us out.”. Here the teachers slow down. Here we have respect. It is easier to learn.”.

High School 83

High School K-12 History Heritage 83

Sapiens

JANUARY 22, 2025

Beyond bombings and other military activities, curfews and checkpoints have severely hindered the efforts of the West Banks Palestinian archaeologists, heritage organizations, and security personnel to access, monitor, and safeguard these vulnerable sites. Demand for valuable objects has long posed a threat to Palestines cultural heritage.

Archaeology 126

Archaeology Heritage Cultures Artifacts 126

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Educators encourage students to share their personal stories as a way to feel proud of their heritage, recognize how strong they are and process trauma. The school stocks several Spanish titles in the library, and Woodson encouraged the children to keep up their Spanish. We were three. Now it’s only me,” he said.

Elementary School 144

Elementary School High School Cultures Public School 144

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 15, 2024

The Teach Truth pop-up with banned books will remain on display in the library/museum. Spoken Word, and the Francis Gregory Neighborhood Library hosted an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display, book swap, discussion, and reading by author Carolivia Herron of her banned book, Nappy Hair on June 8. There were over 100 participants.

Teaching 87

Teaching Library Museum Social Justice 87

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

For years, the Three Rivers Local School District , which includes Taylor High School,has relied on UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to help broaden minds in a school environment that library media specialist Marney Murphy describes as “sheltered.”.

Human Rights 121

Human Rights Education Heritage Library 121

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2024

The conservative Heritage Foundation is the primary force behind the sprawling blueprint, which is separate from the much less detailed Republican National Committee 2024 platform , though they share some common themes.

Education 141

Education Heritage K-12 Tutoring 141

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank closely tied to Trump, has called on states to challenge that decision. It was not immediately clear what implications the free speech order would have in a country divided over removing books from public school libraries and appropriate limits to on-campus protests. The 1982 U.S.

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Inclusive Curriculum Heritage Government K-12 100

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Memorial Library in downtown Washington. Yet many of the same groups that had gathered to protest Moms for Liberty last year staged a separate counter-event, “Celebration of Reading,” on Saturday at the Martin Luther King Jr.

Archiving 121

Archiving Heritage Public School Advocacy 121