The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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Teaching 85

Teaching Education Government Tradition 85

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.

American History 52

American History Library History Government 52

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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Library Social Justice Pedagogy Humanities 249

Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

As the 2024 poet-in-resident at the magazine, she imaginatively reaches for new possibilities. For, I work extensively on Tanzanian heritage and human remains entrapped in Germany. Through poetry, I could imagine her human condition along with her categorization in history.

Archiving 77

Archiving Heritage Museum Anthropology 77

Anthropology News

MARCH 25, 2025

He went to Pine Ridge time and again and learned to dance, sing, and drum in the traditional styles and to speak Lakota fluently. He completed his PhD while working for the Boy Scouts of America as an editor and publicist for Boys Life magazine. Three Indian families adopted him: the Redcloud, Afraid of Horses, and White Calf families.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Tradition Cultures Humanities 52

Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. Traditional models of the market economy, he writes, are centered on the “production” of material goods and their “consumption.”

Anthropology 132

Anthropology Economics Sociology Archiving 132

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true.

History 111

History Teaching K-12 Artifacts 111

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.

Humanities 52

Humanities Museum Government History 52

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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Library Heritage K-12 High School 131

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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Charter School Advocacy Public School Government 87

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.

Elementary School 96

Elementary School K-12 Teaching Middle School 96

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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Elementary School Middle School K-12 Charter School 129

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.

Economics 87

Economics Social Justice Psychology Lesson Plan 87

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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Charter School Education Sociology Tradition 106

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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Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52

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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Human Rights Education Heritage Library 127