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OPINION: New York City’s new middle school admissions will test white parents

The Hechinger Report

This policy change creates a real test for more affluent white parents who say they live in New York City because of the diversity and then send their children to segregated schools. The New York Times podcast “Nice White Parents” illustrated this process at several points in the long history of just one school.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom.

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OPINION: From one white parent to another: Don’t pick schools because they’re selective and mostly white

The Hechinger Report

I remember another white parent, when she learned that my son was not going to the most selective, predominantly white middle school in our district, looking at me in disbelief and saying, “I thought he had high tests scores?”. In his middle school mind, being selective in and of itself did not make a school “good.”

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The pandemic is speeding up the mass disappearance of men from college

The Hechinger Report

And even if young men resolve to go to college later, he said, history shows that “their chances of actually coming back to higher ed are probably slim to none.”. Pedro Hidalgo, a senior at the University Park Campus School in Worcester, Massachusetts. Now he plans to get a degree in sociology.

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What happens when teachers run the school

The Hechinger Report

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

Williams was just 14 when Marcovitz told her she could be part of something historic at Sci Academy, the charter high school he was opening on the east end of town. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. Plus, she had little to lose. psychology class.

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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies. Glenn Youngkin.