ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Again, sometimes that’s good; it’s a wonderful thing to dwell on the various wonders of what makes our humanity universal. In a world driven by race, class, caste and difference, we don’t do enough in schools to candidly confront those realities with an attentive awareness.

Local History 126

Local History Civics Lesson Plan Social Science 126

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

The actual names may vary: We have the College of Arts and Sciences, while Stanford — where I earned my Ph.D. in particle physics — has the School of Humanities and Sciences. Colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

Sociology 108

Sociology Education Political Science Pedagogy 108

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

. It’s a powerful advantage for young people: Career and technical education (CTE) prepares graduates with skills to enter the workforce directly after high school. A college education builds on the basics from high school to prepare young people for career success, lifelong learning and citizenship.”

Social Science 93

Social Science High School Critical Thinking Humanities 93

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Roosevelt Montás, who spoke no English when he arrived in New York City at age 12 from the Dominican Republic, leads Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship summer program for New York City high school students. Nearly half — 46 percent — major in the humanities or social sciences, Lee said. Weekly Update.

Museum 87

Museum Humanities Civics High School 87

ED Surge

JULY 26, 2023

I am a social sciences and Spanish teacher and a mother of three children, and with that comes the social and self-imposed pressure to show that all the pieces of my life fit together like a shiny mosaic. At our all-girls high school, students want to impress their teachers to gain approval and self-worth.

Social Science 98

Social Science Humanities High School Teaching 98

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Called Crypto, Culture, & Society , the group organizes courses that bring knowledge from the arts, humanities and social sciences into conversations about the Web3 world being dreamed into reality. But Bhaumik Patel thinks the learning DAO he’s part of puts a twist on the concept. Students could get in on the action, too.

Education 123

Education EdTech Government Charter School 123

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

What we don’t know from this study is how to help students who are behind in math learn college algebra, a course that is similar to intermediate high school algebra, which remains a requirement for many business, health and engineering majors.

Tutoring 128

Tutoring Tradition Research Social Science 128

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment!

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need. Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement. It’s hard to cope.

Archaeology 87

Archaeology Tutoring History Advocacy 87

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

My older siblings were going to nursing and medical school and all of my cousins were pursuing engineering, science and business degrees. A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. What can’t you do with a humanities degree?” Drawing on data from the U.S.

Humanities 135

Humanities Social Science Social Justice Museum 135

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

Jennifer Greif Green, an associate professor in the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University, said most of a child’s interactions with adults are with their parents and teachers, “so any disruption to that is really going to have an impact on that whole ecosystem and all those relationships.”. Not even close.”.

Psychology 141

Psychology High School Teaching Humanities 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

” These student quotations, contained in a 2018 report from Just Equations , cut to the core of the problem: The teaching and structure of high-school math courses present critical barriers to math learning, educational achievement and equity. .”‘ “I despise the way it is taught.”

Tradition 99

Tradition Psychology High School Social Science 99

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

It draws nearly 90 percent of its enrollment from Massachusetts and the rest of New England , a region in which the number of high school students has been falling. Amodeo remembered being surprised when she was a high school senior to get personal calls from colleges to which she’d applied, and “constant emails.

Library 119

Library Economics High School Research 119

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

“If we don’t offer educators the opportunity to rethink their intellectual ideas — about climate change, science, inequality — it makes it really difficult to do this work.” Social science does not support that. Kids come in with, ‘Humans harm the earth and the earth is dying,’” she said.

Teaching 95

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 95

Political Science Now

MAY 16, 2024

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society.

Political Science 59

Political Science Civics Social Science Humanities 59

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

She’d dropped out of high school her junior year. Cohen High School, more than half the city’s black adults didn’t have even a high school diploma, let alone a university credential. But even that goal felt unreachable after Metz became pregnant in 1985, her junior year of high school.

Education 112

Education Psychology High School Sociology 112

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The humanities taught me I could do it. The simple message that majoring in the humanities pays off is being pushed aggressively by this university and a handful of others; they hope to reverse decades of plummeting enrollment in subjects that teach skills employers say they need from graduates but arent getting.

Humanities 136

Humanities Leadership Social Science Anthropology 136

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2019

Kashuv is a former high school student leader at Turning Point USA, a conservative group, and vocal proponent of gun rights. Leave this field empty if you're human: One team of researchers studied more than 7,000 students around the nation who started college in 2009 and found the answer: not so much. Choose as many as you like.

High School 103

High School Social Science Economics Research 103