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 91

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 91

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 133

Heritage K-12 Human Rights High School 133

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Oppression Olympics During this year’s Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders heritage month, Florida mandated public schools to teach Asian American history — while almost simultaneously banning African American history, criminalizing health care for transgender folks, and being added to travel advisory lists by the NAACP and other human rights advocacy (..)

Heritage 101

Heritage Education K-12 American History 101

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 109

Library Social Justice History Psychology 109

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 135

Advocacy Education Private School Leadership 135

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

Created in 2010 and housed at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the Costs of War project builds on the work of over 60 scholars, experts, human rights advocates, and physicians from around the world. Mona Chalabi’s Data Visualizations. Our work aims to bring an end to the occupation.”

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 82

Education Policy K-12 Education High School 82

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 116

Junior High Elementary School Human Rights Public School 116

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 67

Social Justice Advocacy Human Rights Critical Thinking 67

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

Cozying up to dictators who commit human rights violations. A Department of Education that favors the 10 percent of students in private schools over the 90 percent in public schools. Gassing (and worse) of peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights. Alienating our global allies.

Social Justice 144

Social Justice Government Humanities Human Rights 144

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Credit: Vanessa Leroy for The Boston Globe “The whole concept of race superiority and guilt over the past is concerning,” Cordelli said, citing a complaint and resignation from a Manchester public school employee over training that discussed white privilege. (“I But teachers and others around the state disagree with that point of view.

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 122

Archiving Heritage Public School Advocacy 122