The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. I was one of the youngest students in the class, and we learned everything about human behavior. I’m still connected with my AP Psychology teacher, Jacki Della Rosa Carron , and she remains one of my favorite humans.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

The plan the Court eventually endorsed unanimously for Charlotteafter much negotiation among the judgesused a combination of newly organized magnet schools and long bus rides to achieve integration. I was only dimly aware that my father served on the local Human Relations Committee. 7 and 8, JulyAugust 1956], p.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

Once a month, this column will examine the insights that science offers about the way people learn, and how such findings could influence schools. Most of us can remember a moment like this from our school years: the teacher poses a question – maybe it’s math, maybe history. You’re shot down. You got it wrong.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. History class.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. What does AR look like in the humanities? It gives humanities a relevant context.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: You won’t see separate drinking fountains when you visit the Mississippi Delta town of Indianola. Most of the town’s black children are enrolled in public schools. The Mississippi Humanities Council provided initial funding for the effort.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

Two years ago, when I visited Westwood High School in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix, every incoming freshman started the year in a very unusual way. Back when my mom attended Westwood in the early 80s, students made the typical walk from class to class, learning from one teacher in math and another for English or history or science. (My

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. It is pernicious, it is cruel, and it must change,” he writes. Fordham Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I am the executive director of an education advocacy organization in Oregon, and we’ve seen educators, parents, students and school board members step up to advocate for students’ rights to learn from history and feel seen in school.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

My grandparents knew education was the pathway out of low wages and difficult working conditions, hence why my grandfather decided to work as a janitor at a public school to land a steady job. Living in a Bubble Most students at our all-girls Catholic school believe they live in a bubble. border with Mexico.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. These included Epperson v.

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ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

Not only does Mayer think that upbeat virtual tutors will work better than those with other emotional tones, but he thinks that some students might learn better from an optimized agent than from a human tutor. Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices. One possible solution?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

Camika Royal knows the Philadelphia school system, and not just because she was a student there in her childhood. Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. million people that is less diverse than America, and that has a history very different from our own? Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms. Photo: William Doyle. education?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

She was not alone: A December report revealed that nearly one in five Nashville public school students was failing at least one class. Students may start to see themselves as a “B” student in math or a “D” student in history. In some of the 16,800 school districts across the U.S., I believe this is wrong.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

As humans continue to unleash greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, fires, hurricanes, floods, droughts and heat waves are intensifying, in some cases forcing kids to flee their homes and classrooms and shattering their sense of security. Tay Anderson, a board member and secretary for Denver Public Schools. Climate resilience.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Anna Maria Jack says she isn’t flustered when students bring up fringe science denial theories during her 10th grade Earth science class in the Bronx.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

I’ve struggled to balance representing the history and culture of my school with my desire to support our ongoing and ever-more-pressing need to adapt. Keely Sutton As a school and community engagement manager at a middle school in Atlanta, Keely Sutton thinks a lot about collaboration and community.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. “The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners.” Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Here’s something to think about when you hear people question whether student protests are appropriate: We seem to have forgotten as a nation why we created public schools. No one is confused about why we have public fire departments or libraries: We all understand their mission for the public good. Not so much.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

If O’Neal had received Centennial’s per-pupil funding, it would have meant an extra $789,905 in its budget: Money that could have covered more — or more experienced — teachers, social workers or home-school liaisons, or paid for new programs to address students’ academic and nonacademic needs. Dixon has three daughters in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. They might not be teachers, but they’re educators who already love schools and understand children. These are educators.

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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. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

In 12 years of public school in Shreveport, Louisiana, for example, Jada Walden learned very little about activism, including environmental activism. She learned a bit in school about the Civil Rights Movement, although most of what she remembers about it are “the things your grandmother teaches you.” When I first got there.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. In this sense, the strike was as much about an ideological question as a labor dispute: Who is the public being served by public education?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

Unlike other species, humans use language as a kind of operating system for our big brains. But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. Others blame schools and teachers for “failing” our kids, but the data suggest otherwise. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Civics American History Elementary School Critical Thinking 103

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Cameron Berube, executive director of teaching and learning in the Providence Public Schools, calls it the plumbing that affects what happens in the classroom. Cameron Berube, executive director of teaching and learning, Providence Public Schools, referring to technology vendors and interoperability. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Sometimes a single class, such as 11th grade “algebra II” or 12th grade English, can earn a student credit toward both high school and college. Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

What happened to Emmett Till was brutal, but the tragedy has been sanitized in Mississippi textbooks and in discussions of this state’s violent, racist history. 200,000 — The square footage of the new Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Unlike programs at other colleges and universities, the curriculum focuses on major Western philosophical thinkers and writers via a “great books” program that Montás , who directs Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, considers critical to students’ intellectual development. Weekly Update.

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Marginal Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2024

Think of this as a sequel to Kyle Harper’s tract on Roman plagues and their political import , this look at the Antonine plague and its impact has both good history and good economics. ” The author is well known in finance, ex-LDS circles, public policy, and right-leaning media, and she has a Master’s from Harvard.

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