The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

Related: How to save the humanities? Fewer than one in 20 of all degrees now are in humanities disciplines traditionally associated with the liberal arts, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Leave this field empty if you're human: Small private liberal arts colleges also continue to close, most recently St.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. But I guess one of my thoughts is that if you look through human history, the idea of an artist as being a career or a revenue generator, I mean, that’s really the exception.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2018

[ Every week a ‘Monday Morning Message (MMM)’ email goes out to all doctoral students from a faculty or staff member in the CU Denver School of Education and Human Development. Unfortunately, traditional mechanisms for getting the word out about our work limit our overall visibility and impact. Here’s mine, slated for tomorrow. ].

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Lemuria, the ancestral home of humanity? In 1870, German biologist Ernst Haeckel suggested that Lemuria could be the ancestral home of humanity, as a way of explaining “missing links” in the fossil record of early humans. Interbreeding with animals eventually produced ape-like ancestors to some of the human races.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Listen to the interview with Julia Torres, Cicely Lewis, and Julie Stivers ( transcript ): Sponsored by Alpaca and Scholastic Magazines+ This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. Cover illustration, Life magazine, February 18, 1926, showing a well dressed old man dancing with a flapper. He still hopes to devise a plan that will eliminate future causes of war. Held, John, Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Antioch publishes the prestigious literary magazine The Antioch Review. The college motto: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”. Colleges and universities in general “tend not to be built for that, when you have layers of culture and hundreds of years of tradition behind you,” Manley said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

In 1950, amid the fervor of McCarthyism, the Yale Law Journal delved into a controversy between The Nation and The New York City Board of Education after the left-leaning magazine published articles critical of Roman Catholic church doctrine and dogma. The school board voted to remove The Nation from school libraries.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

In the window of a Morton Catholic outreach center, a sign in both Spanish and English seeks recruits: “Hang live birds for processing in a humane manner. That hasn’t worked very well, in part because it’s too cumbersome, in part because some of the Hispanic parents speak dialects with little resemblance to traditional Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Their imbalance rating is roughly four times that of traditional public schools. Leave this field empty if you're human: In many cases, school district lines are the more potent Confederate monuments that we still need to take down. “In the end, parents’ and students’ opinions are the only ones that matter. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Despite all his struggles emotionally, he remained on track academically. Newsweek magazine dubbed the city “ Murder Town USA ” in 2014. Elizabeth Warren’s plan would limit charter schools in favor of funding for traditional public schools. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The mural, which stretches the length of a football field, intersperses student artwork with text from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was inspired by a group of eighth graders who, in December 2012, just months after Yousafzai’s shooting, had attended a human rights conference in Canada.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I am co-facilitating today’s class with high school teacher, Prentiss Charney Fellow , and great all around human being, T. And so every child today gets taught that modern slavery is human trafficking, it’s a crime against humanity. Whitaker, who has been part of this series for a long time. It’s good to have you with us.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

Growing up, I was a fan of the comic strip Spy vs. Spy , a staple in Mad Magazine. We know that urban charter schools enroll a lower percentage of students with disabilities than nearby traditional public schools , and frequently have a lower percentage of English Language Learners as well. Pallas weighs in. Is that a “Yes”?

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