The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Most (94 percent, or 248 letters) supported repeal, citing concerns such as a climate of fear among teachers and the worry that history couldn’t be taught fully and honestly. OF GILMANTON “The Divisive Concepts law has a chilling effect on teachers, who are afraid to teach honest history for fear of losing their jobs.

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History K-12 Social Studies Public School 94

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It has resulted in more than a billion dollars leaving the public school system and actually not serving additional kids in private schools, Jones said. It's just serving the same kids in the private schools whose parents are higher incomes and who had already chosen to send their kids there. It includes $26.25

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

While private high schools can often afford to employ staff like Ward who are devoted exclusively to helping students plan for college and their futures, these jobs are rare at public schools. At a public school,” said Ward, “you might be lucky to meet with some students once for half an hour or 45 minutes.”.

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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 White abandonment of the public system impoverished the public schools that served Clarksdale’s African American majority. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. schools in recent years. This plays out in all facets of society, but seeps into classrooms, school hallways, staff meetings and principals’ offices.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. Each school approaches that mission very differently, and with varying results. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

It’s not that bad,” a counselor the campers called Ivy told the 11- and 12-year-olds, nervous about their upcoming acting debuts. “I Ivy” is really Kelsee Morgan, 16, a junior in high school. “It Oregon has a long history of offering overnight, outdoor learning programs as part of the regular school year schedule.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Given that teachers are charged with imparting the contributions of women to their students throughout Women’s History Month, a special place should be reserved during March for the women teachers who go unrecognized. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Linda Brown was a third grader in Topeka, Kansas, when her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in the white public school four blocks from her home. Meanwhile, from 2000 to 2022, the percentage of white students attending a school that is 90 percent or more white fell from 44 percent to 14 percent. One legacy of Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S.

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Civics K-12 Museum American History 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio shuttered the nation’s largest public school system last March, I had a feeling the pandemic wasn’t going to be over quickly. My friends assumed schools would be closed for a couple of weeks, maybe a month. Hank Drucker is a sophomore at The Beacon School in Manhattan.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This began with the elimination of an independent agency that performed comprehensive school district audits , ensuring accountability for the $10 billion that state and local taxpayers now invest annually in public schools. history standards as well. But today, charter schools are an afterthought in Massachusetts.

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Charter School K-12 Public School History 131

Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

For the fall, district leaders are working with Dr. Hasan Jeffries, associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, to modify, update, and provide cultural relevance and accuracy for the Social Studies curriculum. The knowledge of these tenets will then be infused into other core content areas as appropriate.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. Good for Everyone?

High School 144

High School K-12 Sociology Psychology 144

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Marcy Whitebook, founding director of the Berkeley center, said that as K-12 school buildings have remained shut, child care centers are now being forced to step in and attend to those kids. “K-12 K-12 public school teachers often have powerful unions to back them; child care providers largely do not.

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K-12 Government History Public School 120

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

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I grew up and attended schools in the South in an area known as the Black Belt , a name given to the region because of its large Black population and black soil. I never took a course in African American history during that time, the late 1980s and early 90s, despite being enveloped in Blackness in my neighborhoods, churches and schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In New York City, the nation’s largest public school system, a $23 million initiative is underway to combat implicit bias, the unconscious attitudes formed about racial and cultural groups different from one’s own. I would see him walk into school and his facial expression would change. It’s a step that doesn’t come easily.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2016

Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional and required the integration of those schools that were segregating students. The post From Brown v.

History 75

History K-12 American History High School 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Florida is doing its best to tilt the scales and shut down important, much-needed discussions of race, slavery, stolen lands, and undeniable history that have led us to where we are as a society today.” He added a dire warning: “What just happened in Florida … is coming your way. There’s nothing objectional. Here we go again?

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K-12 History American History Psychology 130

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

Almost all of Tate’s years in public school — from first grade to high school graduation — were spent within the turmoil of newly desegregated schools. 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.

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History Elementary School Museum Archiving 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

A law passed in Idaho in 2021 not only required all districts to teach reading using “evidence-based” instruction, it also required K-12 teacher preparation programs housed at any state institution of higher education to prepare teachers according to that reading plan. It gives me understanding of what’s going on,” Omar said.

High School 145

High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2020

Our nation’s Founding Fathers had a pluralistic view of K-12 schooling. Related: A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South. In public schools, one daughter was bullied and the other struggled academically. A recent U.S.

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Private School K-12 Charter School Education 106

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You cannot attend public schools, visit the public library, eat in restaurants, enjoy public parks, go to churches or attend movie theaters. Eight states have outlawed the teaching of critical race theory , or CRT, a concept they believe will negatively influence their K-12 students. You have no rights.

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American History K-12 Civics History 105

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

I work in a hybrid role with Copper Island Academy, a Michigan charter school that uses tried-and-true practices from Finnish education, including regular brain breaks, teacher collaboration and hands-on learning. This global phenomenon emerged about 12 years ago, but is playing out differently worldwide.

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K-12 Charter School Government History 112

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“Voice, agency, and influence are ours to give and receive,” says Debora Collins, assistant superintendent for student learning at Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia. Matthew Wheelock Innovation Program Director, University of Virginia Curry School of Education. This area of Virginia was a hub of the Confederacy.

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K-12 Public School Elementary School Cultures 115

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

Native American parents at Havasupai Elementary School in Arizona are suing the federal government and the Bureau of Indian Education for failing to educate their children, practicing excessive exclusionary discipline, violently restraining students and denying the community’s federally protected right to participate in school decision-making.

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Cultures Education K-12 Government 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2022

K-12 public school students are students of color. As our schools become more and more racially and culturally diverse, it is long past time for the voices and opinions of marginalized parents to be heard and recognized. And the number is rising.

Cultures 126

Cultures K-12 Public School Teaching 126

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

As an illustration of the ignorance about disruptive action and civil disobedience in particular, Fisher noted K-12 students rarely hear about the topic unless studying the 1960s era, and “a very sanitized version. Related: How do we teach Black history in polarized times?

Teaching 137

Teaching Civics K-12 Civic Engagement 137

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Andrea estimated she has worked at least 10 to 12 jobs since graduating from college six years ago. Photo: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews. “I

K-12 111

K-12 Psychology High School Leadership 111

ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. I’ve even made the case that for some students, a music, art, dance or drama class might be the only thing bringing them to school each day. How Did We Get Here?

Education 145

Education Humanities K-12 High School 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

For most of history, women had very little educational opportunity, and the college spots available to them were in gender-segregated schools with fewer resources. It would be decades before the most elite schools reached gender parity. And gender bias still lingers in American education , from pre-K through college.

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K-12 Cultures Economics High School 120

ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Jackie Gerstein Recently, EdSurge spoke with three participants of the AI Explorations program to learn about its impact in K-12 classrooms: Dr. Jackie Gerstein, Dr. Brandon Taylor and Dr. Stacy George. I asked the student to start a conversation with Code Breaker about his history ideas.

Humanities 127

Humanities Education K-12 Critical Thinking 127

ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

And there was particular concern over students losing skills in those areas during the pandemic, especially in K-12. history, districts hoped that tutoring would help claw back some of the learning kids may have lost. Under the American Rescue Plan, $122 billion flowed to K-12 school districts.

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Tutoring K-12 Research Pedagogy 97

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change? If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide.

Education 124

Education Charter School Social Justice K-12 124

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!

K-12 103

K-12 Project-Based Learning Public School Educational Technology 103

ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

There has been a history of fights in the state legislature over public-school funding, voucher programs that support private schools and teacher credentials—with Republicans on one side advocating for more school choice, and Democrats joined by public school groups on the other side calling for support for public schools.

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Charter School K-12 Public School Private School 107