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TAH Multiday Prompts Discussion of Partisanship, Then and Now

Teaching American History

Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas. Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas, provided a substitute teacher so that Lohrding could fly on a Friday into Burbank Airport in time for the seminars opening reception and dinner that night.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If 1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

Osborn, who graduated from Clinton in 2005 and returned five years ago to teach history at the high school, said the benefits of Clinton’s plan stuck out to him even as a kid. Sumner Hill Junior High, now the district’s ninth-grade school, used to be a majority-black school before the district incorporated it into its zone.

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The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

The Hechinger Report

When Taylor graduated from Greenville High School in 1989, there were still enough white students, barely, to fill the mandated balance for positions of responsibility. When he returned from college in 1993 to work as a history teacher in the district, he wondered where all the white students had gone. Sacrificing Coleman High School.

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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

A spokesperson for the Laramie County School District #1 could only find records of two students who died by suicide at East High school while Brown was enrolled there.). Despite this history, Brown, like many of his colleagues, said a bill requiring schools to provide suicide prevention education to students was legislative overreach.

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Moten’s grandmother remembers her time at Roberts Vaux Junior High School fondly: the sewing classes, cheering at basketball games and swaying during dances in the gym. Ninth-grader Layla Stevens, 15, visited the National Museum of Jewish American History on one RWL trip.

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