ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Danvers, a town about 20 miles north of Boston, has five small elementary schools. The switch to the town’s bigger middle school – where, for the first time, students walk the halls on their own between classes – can be a little scary. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

After piloting it last year, the public middle school expanded the concept to seventh grade, too, though it looks a little different with the older students. Seventh graders on Stony Brook School’s project-based learning team research how to take care of chickens ahead of an egg delivery. Instead of learning and taking a test.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Currently, I serve as the executive director of Thinking Nation , a nonprofit organization working to shift the paradigm of social studies education. For instance, last spring, I was in a middle school classroom engaging in one of our prompts that asked students to analyze how enslaved people resisted their enslavement.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year. The hope is that if kids can become proficient in reading early on, they’ll be much more likely to succeed in all of their subjects, from science to social studies, because students need to know how to read to learn the material. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The approach is more prevalent in some “pockets” of the country, Townsley says, particularly New Hampshire , Maine and Wisconsin , with more recent adoptions in schools in Connecticut , New Mexico and Oregon. Completing homework and meeting deadlines are important life skills that should be fostered at school,” he said.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2016

VUSD has a strong “School of Choice” program through which students may elect to attend schools like Vista Innovation & Design Academy (VIDA), where students are engaged in a middle school curriculum that emphasizes design thinking, STEM, humanities, and creative arts.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Hoang co-leads Burbank’s partnership with Turnaround Arts: California , a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that seeks to advance education in a select group of elementary and middle schools in the state. First graders are working with high school honors students to map kindness.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015. From first through fifth grade, each teacher taught fewer subjects, perhaps just reading or reading and social studies, but was responsible for more students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Educators throughout the state soon copied the model established by Hollenbeck and Milliken in their local schools. It’s outdoor school. Mike Shinkle, aka Kodiak, shop teacher at Crook County Middle School. But, as far as she knows, no other state is considering funding an outdoor school experience for all children.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The directors of the institute, Bob Holschuh Simmons of Monmouth College ( rsimmons@monmouthcollege.edu ) and Nathalie Roy of Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge, LA ( fabricatrix@gmail.com ), encourage applications from K-12 teachers of any subject that could incorporate hands-on Classics into its curricula.

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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

“It’s not just about understanding the facts—it’s about understanding the human impact, and that’s where real learning happens.” For example, in one of TCI’s middle school social studies video activities , students “fly” over the Silk Road in a simulation inspired by Disney’s Soarin’ Around the World ride.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Jill Henry, who graduated from Whitmore Lake High School in 1995, left a successful career teaching high school social studies in Wayne, Michigan, to return to her alma mater and help open the new high school in 2006. In the elementary school, art classes were cut. Or the human capital?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. It felt silly.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

Educators throughout the state soon copied the model established by Hollenbeck and Milliken in their local schools. It’s outdoor school. Mike Shinkle, aka Kodiak, shop teacher at Crook County Middle School. But, as far as she knows, no other state is considering funding an outdoor school experience for all children.

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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

“It’s not just about understanding the facts—it’s about understanding the human impact, and that’s where real learning happens.” For example, in one of TCI’s middle school social studies video activities , students “fly” over the Silk Road in a simulation inspired by Disney’s Soarin’ Around the World ride.

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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

“It’s not just about understanding the facts—it’s about understanding the human impact, and that’s where real learning happens.” For example, in one of TCI’s middle school social studies video activities , students “fly” over the Silk Road in a simulation inspired by Disney’s Soarin’ Around the World ride.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Joining social studies teacher groups on Facebook, she built her own professional learning community (PLC). “I The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. She found interesting geography lessons online.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Still, the path was winding and not limited to school. When Ta was in middle school — when the country was embroiled in the 2020 presidential election and reeling from COVID-19 — political questions seemed suddenly relevant for them. School also taught Ta to conduct research, which was helpful.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The standards, which went into effect this fall, introduce students as young as kindergarteners to the subject, not just in science class but in the arts, world languages, social studies and physical education. Cari Gallagher reads a book about Hurricane Sandy to her third graders at Lawrenceville Elementary School.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the State Education Department had rejected 35% of the social studies textbooks submitted for review because of leftist content. The DeSantis administration objects to any references to “social justice” or negative references to capitalism. history and world history courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2019

Same with climate change: Some extreme weather events occur regardless of whether humans are pumping extra carbon into the atmosphere. All told, 37 states recognize human-caused climate change in their science standards, says the National Center for Science Education. Related: The silence of school leaders on climate change.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But human observations are time-consuming and expensive. One team of scientists is focused on a type of question that middle school English teachers ask students. Related: How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world. Humans found slightly more, a 3.9 percent rate of authentic questions.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Our humanity matters, but our unique experiences also matter. So much emotional energy is expended attempting to reconcile the disempowering moment in order to reclaim our humanity. I’ll sometimes smile, look them in the eyes and respond sweetly, “Human. And we’re not just one homogenized, stereotypical group. What are you?”

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

Being in a small school, they needed help taking on extra elective sections, so I also started teaching eighth grade art in my fourth year. Finally, this year, I’ve added sixth grade math, so now I have a hand in all three grade levels at our middle school. What has been the most challenging and rewarding part of your job?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist, I often find myself in settings where discussing Palestine, or even mentioning my identity as a Palestinian American, presents more challenges than when I worked in the field of human rights and law. It is what inspired them to pursue a career in education.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Courtney Bennis High School Social Studies Teacher, Virginia Beach, Virginia A huge “Thank you!” I currently have pictures of the students’ final products on display in the hallway of our school for the rest of the student body to see and read. Thank you, @ZinnEdProject , for helping me teach my students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

I teach history and social studies at New York University. In fact, the problems we’re seeing, the patterns of behavior that we’re watching on campus now in really vivid form, are very fixed patterns of human behavior. If you’re a student or a parent, it can be confusing. Robert Cohen: My name is Robert Cohen.

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Civics Cultures Political Science Advocacy 91

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. Allyson Saladino High School Social Studies Teacher, Ridgewood, New Jersey I used the lesson titled, How Red Lines Built White Wealth , in order for students to learn about red lining and institutionalized racism.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities.

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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. Maria, 13, left rear, is a student at Morton Middle School. The Tupelo School District, in the northwest corner of the state, has found the approach to be effective.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

middle school work on a Reconstruction lesson. To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

Conditions havent improved for social studies teachers since. One of Trumps first executive orders claimed schools use radical indoctrination to imprint anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies on children. The AHAs report came out at the end of 2024, before President Donald Trump took office.

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