The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

The era following the Civil War, Reconstruction , gets short shrift in high school and is rarely mentioned at all in elementary. Black representatives were elected to state and federal government, public schools were made available (for all children), and many (though tragically only a fraction of) formerly enslaved families were reunited.

History 75

History Elementary School Library Civics 75

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

In the connected gym, San Francisco Unified School District families can set up beds on the floor each night, as part of the Stay Over Program. We will not fix homelessness until the federal government believes that housing is a human right,” Ronen said. Credit: Marissa Leshnov for the Hechinger Report. But it’s something.

High School 145

High School Elementary School Middle School Human Rights 145

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

School, district-based, or statewide book study Regular meetings to discuss chapters and create individual and/or collective action plans around each of the book’s five sections. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Library 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

But despite those new expectations, most school districts in the state where the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till mobilized black Americans still use textbooks that give local civil rights milestones short shrift. Before 2011, Mississippi public school students weren’t required to learn about the Civil Rights Movement at all.

K-12 94

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 94

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Disaggregating People of Color As a Black researcher, educator, and professional committed to intersectional racial justice, I observe that learning about the humanness of people with whom I research puts much of the racial division in context of a broader history of Eurocentrism and imperialism. White supremacy does so much to all of us.”

Heritage 101

Heritage Education K-12 American History 101

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For parents applying to the dual-language program at Rochester, New York’s public school No. In 2011, one mother filed a complaint with the Cambridge Human Rights Commission, alleging that Amigos no longer served the Hispanic community. The number of dual-language public schools in the U.S.

Heritage 136

Heritage K-12 Human Rights High School 136

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This is evident in recent campaigns to ban books that mention homosexuality, race or gender, along with today’s disputes over how much control parents should have over what children are being taught in public schools across the country.

Library 112

Library Social Justice History Psychology 112

ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

Education 128

Education K-12 Advocacy Government 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

“Betsy DeVos has been a total disaster for students’ civil rights for four years as Education Secretary and gets no credit now for resigning 13 days before inauguration,” The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights , the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights coalition, said in a tweet.

Advocacy 137

Advocacy Education Private School Leadership 137

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The median income is about $33,000 and almost a quarter of the population is considered to be living in poverty, a poverty that is concentrated in households sending children to the county’s public schools, where the vast majority of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. Some in town think schools should use it more often.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Public School High School Government 145

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Too often the school curriculum in the United States has told young people — explicitly and implicitly — that some lives matter more than others. We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.”

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2018

Allowing DACA recipients to get higher education and better-paying jobs translates into them paying more taxes — which in turn helps pay for the state’s public school system and other government services, said Andrew Lim, director of quantitative research at the New American Economy. million in state and local taxes.

Education Policy 87

Education Policy K-12 Education High School 87

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

In January, Rosa Bermudez filled out her “Power Plan” for a safe, healthy relationship to technology, one of her early assignments from Stansbury Elementary School. The work was among her first in English, and in an American public school. public schools, experts from MPI wrote in a September policy brief.

Junior High 121

Junior High Elementary School Human Rights Public School 121

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2017

Eight transgender people have died this year, and 22 transgender people died last year in the United States because of violence , according to the Human Rights Campaign. People are dying at the intersections of ignorance, gender, race and sex. It was the most ever recorded, according to the advocacy group.

Social Justice 70

Social Justice Advocacy Human Rights Critical Thinking 70

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With coronavirus cases soaring and schools facing teacher and technology shortages, DeVos has spent the last few months urging public schools to open, under threat of losing federal money, while at the same time calling for immediate relief for private schools. It’s not that parents don’t want options.

Public School 142

Public School Leadership Charter School Tutoring 142

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2020

On whether or not we’re going to restore fundamental human decency to our nation. Attempts to deny women the basic right to choose what happens with their own bodies. Xenophobia, nationalism, and the denial of the humanity of others – particularly Black and Brown people – around the globe.

Social Justice 144

Social Justice Government Humanities Human Rights 144

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Cordelli told me he was concerned about teachers indoctrinating students and schools promoting critical race theory. Since November of 2021, only one charge related to the divisive concepts law has been filed against a teacher, the state said in response to a Hechinger Report/Boston Globe Magazine public information request.

Teaching 145

Teaching Social Studies High School History 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

over Labor Day weekend, a sign shows the group’s concern about the culture of American public schools. At the first Moms for Liberty summit, in Tampa in 2022, attendees were invited to a well-choreographed unveiling of the dangers facing children in public school — and an urgent call to get involved. Think of it.

Archiving 126

Archiving Heritage Public School Advocacy 126