The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Even before the pandemic, STEM achievement gaps in K-12 schools were significant. Local science and natural history museums could also help by arranging free outdoor and physically distanced exhibits, and setting up outdoor kid-friendly laboratories with slides and microscopes.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2015

The Learn Everywhere award is for an organization that supports learning outside of the K-12 system through community and cultural resources, technology, and/or open platforms. Winners will be notified in October and invited to attend our gala celebration on November 20 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

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ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

Student Exploration Students visiting the museum can take a guided tour of both Hemingway’s studio & the Pheiffer home. Curriculum Guide The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center offers educational programming to all ages! The agricultural history of the Arkansas Delta region. The Great Depression and New Deal.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

On a recent visit with developers and museum designers, she stood on the building’s gutted first floor and described her plans for the center. The story’s breadth is rarely explained, said Tate, who wants visitors to McDonogh 19 to learn the history, within the very space where history was made. “I District Judge J.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

From the basic genetics taught in K–12 schools to university courses, biology curricula desperately need an overhaul. At the American Museum of Natural History, a 2001 digital representation of the human genome presents color coding for the four chemical components of DNA.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

and global history classes are often crunched for time by the end of the school year and struggle to fit in discussions of any events that happened after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. Last school year, the district piloted a new set of lessons created by the Newseum , a museum in Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2016

“It’s more about giving the teachers, the educators, the space to be learners themselves and learn how to use our museum, our facility, in different ways,” said Gerrie Hall, manager of school and teacher progress at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.

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ACRE

JUNE 9, 2023

The history of Dyess Colony, along with the Cash family, hold many stories and learning opportunities. Students can imagine what life would’ve been like living with their families in one of the 500 Dyess homes and think about how the land, home, and history inspired Cash’s music.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 17, 2023

According to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, these ancient human relatives possessed distinctive physical traits such as larger noses, angled cheekbones, and sturdy physiques. A model of a Neanderthal male on display at the Natural History Museum in London. 1 Velazquez-Arcelay, K.,

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

The Delta Cultural Center is a museum and educational complex that tells the story of a land and its people, capturing what makes the Arkansas Delta region unique. DCC even offers an interactive Escape Room exhibit, where students answer questions about Arkansas history while racing to solve puzzles and escape the room.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sanfelippo found his district’s social-media rallying cry during a school field trip to Fall Creek’s history museum, where vintage banners, pennants and pins were emblazoned “Go Crickets!”. “We “Parents can follow the Twitter feed, and say, ‘Don’t you have that paper due soon in social studies class?’ ” Terrill said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. By comparison, 76 percent of the K–12 teaching force is female, and 20 percent are people of color.).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The $500 million plan — the largest single undertaking in the history of the housing authority, according to officials — also includes the redevelopment of the neighborhood’s 510 units of public housing and roughly 10 blocks of a commercial corridor. They are also preparing to intern twice a week next year with organizations across the city.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The teacher-led rallies received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. In Florida, Gov.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

So, if I was going to make, develop an op-ed around Native American history and culture I’ve written books, received grants and so on, I’m well prepared to make that argument. The manuscript did not end up in the hands of museums or local officials but rather Catholic monks in the hills of Bohemia. south west.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

The largest population of students of color are Hispanics, at about 12 percent. English teacher Justin Bilton and history teacher Jason Stark created and team-teach the class. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Just over 18 percent of the school’s students are economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

At Haven, a decade-old South Bronx charter school serving roughly 450 kids in pre-K through seventh grade, moods are characterized by colors. I have never in my history of taking care of kids had to write out a 10-day notice.” The goal with Alyssa, as with all her classmates, is to keep her “in the green.”

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. Donate so that we can continue to organize events like these and defend the right of teachers across the United States to teach peoples history. Or plan a history walking tour, book exchange, rally, etc.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

History students. For the full 90-minute block period students discussed, jotted down notes, and exclaimed in both horror and shock as they learned about a sliver of our country’s hidden history. Paradoxically, teaching people’s history leaves more room for hope than any other educational framework. Here are just a few.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2018

A field trip to this much-needed museum should be required for every middle and high school student in U.S. Students should experience the symbolic representation of that history so they can understand how lynching has evolved in today’s context. Related: We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this.

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ACRE

JUNE 21, 2023

Tour guides walk students through the historic timeline and share the stories they’ve preserved throughout the museum, connecting learning topics from across the social studies content area. K-12 teachers, did you know there is grant funding available for field trips to historic Arkansas sites?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

“I had been taught, in school, through cultural osmosis, that the flag wasn’t really ours, that our history as a people began with enslavement and that we had contributed little to this great nation.”. Legislators, history activists and those who want to project a positive view of the U.S. Learning the sordid details of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2017

Fights over history are really contests for children’s minds. Public school officials should make the loudest demands that Confederate monuments belong in museums where guns are not allowed. history books, to put tainted Confederate heroes in context. Lee monument in New Orleans on May 7. Photo: Andre Perry.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

In January, EveryLibrary, a group that tracks legislation that puts school and college librarians, higher ed faculty and museum professionals at risk of criminal prosecution, identified 44 bills in 14 states as “ legislation of concern ,” for the 2024 session. This climate has teachers and librarians feeling fearful, confused and stressed.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

New York City Deputy Mayor Richard Buery greets Chirlane McCray, the city’s first lady, at the awards ceremony and celebration in honor of Black History Month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on February 23, 2017. Photo: Andy Katz/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

But her attempt to point out some kind of moral absurdity during her remarks to Colorado Christian College students at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., And this is not the first time DeVos has publicly misinterpreted history. Given our history, it is anti-racist to ensure black women regain their reproductive options.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 1926, he originated the celebration of Black History Week and is the author of 16 books about African Americans. Last year Vice President Mike Pence commemorated the start of Black History Month (BLM) by acknowledging Abraham Lincoln, a white man, for submitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. Photo: AP Photo.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This course is an introduction to the histories of African Americans for those who talk favorably about “departed” black heroes like Ben Carson but find it difficult to recognize a black president. Session 1: Field Trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture with U.S. Frederick Douglass, ca. Spring 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

The board has spent upwards of $40 million over the past two decades on K-12 education with a pro-industry bent, including hundreds of pages of curricula, a speaker series and an afterschool program — all at no cost to educators. million for K-12 efforts in 2016, roughly the same amount went to messaging it calls “public education.”

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 15, 2024

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. The Teach Truth pop-up with banned books will remain on display in the library/museum. She received an enthusiastic response, with many educators affirming the need to teach banned books and banned history. There were over 100 participants.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Trump said or did during his controversial visit to the newly opened Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Saturday changed how Delorise Love felt about its wrenching exhibits of lynchings, mob violence and unfettered racism. Related: Mississippi’s darkest days on display at new museum. Photo: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report.

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