ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Later on, as I went into middle and high school and was wondering what I wanted to do in my career, I would think about teaching, and Ms.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2025

Colleges across the country are updating spaces like libraries and science labs to be more collaborative, says Lalit Agarwal, president and chief executive officer of APPA, an organization that supports educational facilities staff. For instance, a local high school recently used Fullertons gallery space for a choir performance.

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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. We get them in high school, not when they’re little,” Vázquez says. “We But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish.

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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 For Johnson, the school was a bid to cultivate the greatness she saw in these local kids, including her own daughters. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March. You know how Ms.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. appeared first on Teaching American History. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? See a sample itinerary here.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

Heather Messer , a teacher and advisor at a Wisconsin school where competency-based learning is a school-wide practice. Beth Blankenship , an English teacher who has figured out how to use competency-based learning at her Virginia high school, a school that still uses traditional grading.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. Even then, many Southern school districts stalled for time, some waiting until the 1971 Supreme Court ruling in Swann v. They decided that Reid School would close for good.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

On May 31, a school board meeting in Hernando County, Florida, made national news when more than 600 hundred people showed up and the meeting lasted until 2:30 a.m. The county had moved the meeting to the high school auditorium to accommodate a large crowd. Florida Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. Homan is compiling an archive of Chatfield’s history.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

11, 2001, high school social studies teacher and football coach Robert Lake stood outside with students waiting to get picked up from school. Lake and his high school students watched the world change that day. Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images. NORTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. — On the afternoon of Sept.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

. — The previous few months had witnessed a handful of small endings, and now, with the school year drawing to a close, these events were piling up quickly. In February, hundreds had gathered in the school gymnasium for the final basketball games in Chelsea High School history. Michael Dougherty/VTDigger.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. This work needs to begin in elementary school, where students’ ideas about their place in the world are shaped.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

When I first started teaching middle school, I did everything my university prep program told me to do in what’s known as the “workshop model.” I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty. history (why was the Berlin wall built?) I let kids choose their books.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

The lesson featured two art historians, a microbiologist, a writing specialist, the library director and me, a historian in sports studies. Incoming first-year students missed out on community when the coronavirus canceled their high-school graduation ceremonies, proms and chances to say goodbye to their favorite teachers.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 16, 2024

In this election year, the Zinn Education Project developed an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display to raise awareness about the growing threat of anti-history education laws and book bans. There is a QR code so people can check their voter registration and information from HEAL Together about how to get involved in school boards.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Most students in the California State University, Chico library were silently poring over books or computers on a recent afternoon, but one group was tucked into a corner peppering university president Stephen Perez with questions. A dormitory, for instance, might have more residents than a rural student’s high school had students.

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History Havoc

OCTOBER 27, 2024

This is a book on the history of my high school’s football team. I spend most nights at the library and most weekends too. I also want to start up my history podcast again. Instead, I am going to focus on making my college course (I teach a dual credit US History course) the best it can be.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter. Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. School officials said the decline is due to incomplete data.)

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sophia Perry, a senior at Red Bank High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, says her school has been lax in enforcing its mandatory mask-wearing policy. Sophia Perry, 17, a senior at Red Bank High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on the return to in-person classes five-days a week. It blows my mind.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina.

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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. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. Before the pandemic, Albalicia Espino often took her 6-year-old daughter Sara to the West Dallas Library. On special occasions, they’d make the trip to downtown Dallas, where the towering library building has a dedicated children’s floor.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Yet, of 112 those tests, only 16 or 17 were large-scale, federally-mandated but state-specific standardized tests (Math and ELA, once a year in grades 3-8 and once in high school, plus possibly a science assessment.) Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. link] Reese, W. Harvard University Press.

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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. Brett Van Gaasbeek, MAHG graduate and teacher at Cincinnati Northwest High School in Ohio. The fast-paced survey covers American history from Columbus to the present day. Alton, Ill.

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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. Brett Van Gaasbeek, MAHG graduate and teacher at Cincinnati Northwest High School in Ohio. The fast-paced survey covers American history from Columbus to the present day. Alton, Ill.

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Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2019

In my public high school, we rarely interact with technology, at least not productively. If you walk into a classroom at my school, you’ll probably see students scrolling through Instagram and recording videos on Snapchat. So, why is tech use so limited at my school? However, technology can be used for so much more.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. At the all-girls boarding high school that Ruth Cady attended in a small Virginia town, she recalls being a middling student. But he does work in a library.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019. These same young teens were also less likely to say they talked about books or went to the library. Positive attitudes about reading fell too.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on social media. High School social studies teacher. Can high-school kids check the authenticity of an alarming image posted on Facebook?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

One school district stands out as a model of implementation: Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools (LCPS). Since 2005, LCPS had participated in the Geospatial Semester program through James Madison University, which taught GIS to hundreds of high school seniors (and even juniors) through a project-based approach.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Last fall, after the university’s admissions team worked to craft a more intentional recruiting plan, officials say they enrolled the most diverse freshman class in LSU’s nearly 160-year history. In 2016, 44 percent of Louisiana’s high school graduates were black. Significant changes in disparities for African-American students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Studies on middle and high school readers found that the influence of listening comprehension on variance in reading comprehension continues to grow over time.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The investigators: a group of students at Independence High School in Frisco, Texas. history has been apprehended. Pick a template Users can browse Genially’s ever-growing library, which includes free gamification templates , to find what best fits the content and story. The case: the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping.

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