The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. These ideas have revived interest in E.D. Hirschs Core Knowledge curriculum, which gained popularity in the late 1980s.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson is an English teacher by training, but he has embraced the “digital humanities,” teaching students how to code to answer questions about books, speeches, news coverage, rap lyrics and more. The post Students analyze rap lyrics with code in digital humanities class appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Subscribe today!

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 30, 2024

Teacher Tips: A Better Way to Think About Social Studies Jan. 30, 2024 • by Debbie Bagley Some of the best teaching advice I received from my mother, a teacher of 30+ years, was a different way to look at Social Studies. Every subject, discipline, and activity teaches Social Studies.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

It's the year 2023, and teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. Between the students, administrators, parents, and the community, social studies teachers are feeling pressure from all directions. Another trend in social studies education is the emphasis on project-based learning.

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Social Studies Teaching Historic Sites Primary Sources 52

Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

In the five classrooms I’ve had in my career, I’ve discovered the must-haves that make my social studies classes run smoothly. While many of these are universal tips for any middle or high school classroom, several are social studies-specific. Things that go way beyond classroom décor.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 14, 2025

2 In Studies Weekly, the task of reading grade-level text is modeled with plenty of scaffolding that the student can then use to approximate the task on their own. Human-recorded audio has synchronized highlighting so that the students can see reading modeled and bring general and domain-specific vocabulary into their oral vocabulary.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 11, 2025

Register Robert Cohen is professor of History and Social Studies in New York Universitys Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Professional development credit certificate provided upon request for attendees. He is an affiliated member of NYUs History Department.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. He has long argued that U.S.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

The novel being annotated is The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer Discussion and Feedback Students wrap up and review their annotations. Circulate and observe each group , helping students deepen their thinking by asking questions and making connections between the annotations. link] Lloyd, Z.T.,

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Luckily, there are tons of incredible sociology lessons to ensure students explore the underlying social forces that shape human behavior. Sociology is such a fun course as it allows students to examine social issues and question prevailing norms. It is so neat to explore social forces that shape human behavior!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Grade inflation struck all high school subjects, ACT found, but it was highest for math, followed by science, English, and social studies. Grades continued to rise in math and science even as grade inflation stabilized in English and social studies. points, while English and social studies rose by 0.22

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. Parent concerns.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Keep scrolling to check out each of the following simulations: Early Humans Survival Simulation, Persian Empire Simulation, Nile River Simulation, Mohenjo Daro Simulation, Silk Road Simulation, Ancient Greece Panhellenic Games Simulation, Roman Empire Archaeological Simulation, and Knighthood Simulation!

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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. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes. A lot of times, social studies gets a bad rap.

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History Museum Social Studies Geography 128

Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

This has generated some of the most challenging discussions I’ve seen in my class. — Lena Amick, social studies teacher, Baltimore This widely used lesson was revised last year in collaboration with Taíno community members. I LOVE how “the system of empire” is one of the options for students to blame or defend.

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History Social Studies Humanities Cultures 143

Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

She also acknowledged that historically, AI has often reflected its human creator’s biases or discriminatory ideas: “I feel that AI is not being monitored or regulated to be free of implicit bias and I worry about how it is being developed and used. Christian Scott, Social Studies Educator and Tech Coordinator (Massachusetts).

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

In her book Humanly Possible , Sarah Bakewell writes about being human as culture, morality, science, optimism, and more. Bakewell opens with a musing on the Roman playwright Terence’s line about humans. “I In Bakewell’s way of thinking, this double meaning to both entertain and provoke is so very human.

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Humanities Human Rights Social Studies Cultures 40

Digital Promise

APRIL 30, 2019

Within these eight key concepts, teachers of science, math, language arts, social studies, and art have found intersections with what their students are expected to know and know how to do. The foundations of computational thinking are abstraction, decomposition, pattern recognition and testing and debugging.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Cueing. For years, educators have felt pressure to cut time for science, social studies and the arts in order to carve more time for the basics: reading, writing and math. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Social Studies Research Elementary School Teaching 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

More than a dozen states don’t have any language in their science standards about human-caused climate change, according to the National Center for Science Education. It’s more ambiguous as to the causes of climate change, and the human role in causing climate change, than some other states,” she says. They raise cattle.

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Humanities Social Studies Teaching Government 134

Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Seventy-seven percent of students said they were most likely to encounter advanced technology in “tech” courses as compared to social studies (21 percent) or language arts (13.4

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2021

We need to read texts by Asian American authors in English classes and learn about Asian American history and community leaders in social studies classes. Of these students, only one had an Asian American high school social studies or humanities teacher.

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High School American History Social Studies Leadership 124

Teaching American History

MAY 21, 2024

With each class lasting one week and with teachers coming from all over the country, it’s a bit like a summer camp for social studies teachers! Students will examine the writings of leading black intellectuals and activists about human equality, slavery, self-government, the rule of law, emancipation, colonization, and citizenship.

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Professional Development American History Economics Social Studies 111

ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When we study a time and place that is unlike our own, we learn to listen better, we build empathy for diverse perspectives and experiences, and we become better people. Currently, I serve as the executive director of Thinking Nation , a nonprofit organization working to shift the paradigm of social studies education.

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Civics Education Civic Engagement K-12 129

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

While jobs increasingly require the processing power of computers along with human creativity and expertise, our education system is preparing only some students with these skills, while systematically excluding others.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Social Studies 141

ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

As a high school social studies teacher, my job includes helping students learn to use evidence to present arguments, engage in civil discourse and take informed action to bring about change. This idea has been critical for me as a social studies teacher, but it goes beyond the social studies classroom.

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American History World History Social Studies History 133

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Social studies is typically considered the most suitable subject area for developing citizenship skills and knowledge. Instead, social studies classes should be providing students opportunities to make connections between their lives and the knowledge they learn in class.

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Civics Social Studies Critical Thinking History 88

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

Instead of staying with the same two teachers in the same room for most of the day, students have one teacher for a combined science and math class and another for a humanities class that brings language arts and social studies together. And their understanding goes beyond memorizing facts.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2018

Ann Marie Lynam, seventh-grade social studies teacher, Baldwin Schools, Long Island. Lynam teaches seventh-grade social studies five periods each day, to students with severe special needs, to a mix of general and special education students, and to kids who are academically advanced. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

What does AR look like in the humanities? The McGraw Hill program is releasing a social studies and language arts component that integrates the two content areas. It gives humanities a relevant context.” Each of those perspectives is actually the testimony from the trial of the different witnesses on the scene.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

But they had success with English, science and social studies. Although the study took place in England, Taylor sees lessons here for U.S. I can imagine algorithms more accurately analyzing how class time is spent from audio and video recordings, eliminating the need for human observers to code hours of instructional time.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 5, 2015

One of my doctoral students’ dissertations at the University of Minnesota , for instance, found that overzealous school filtering prohibited student access to online content essential for satisfying state Social Studies and Health curricular standards. Image credit: Save the Internet Net Neutrality protest , Steve Rhodes.

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Library Leadership Social Studies Humanities 89

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Too few parents and teachers are talking about race, gender and other identity traits with children often enough, which means they are missing out on critical opportunities to teach children to become tolerant of differences from an early age. Sign up for our Early Education newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Psychology Elementary School Humanities Social Studies 112

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

Kids this age are “practicing who they are in relation to a complicated social world, with hierarchies, rules and nuances,” said Ronald Dahl, the director of the Institute of Human Development at the University of California-Berkeley. Teachers say they can see the toll social isolation is taking on their students.

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Middle School Psychology Humanities Social Studies 145

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Whether deciphering patterns in numeracy and geometry, developing computational models to simulate weather patterns in a science class, or mapping human migration patterns in social studies, computational thinking has the power to accentuate and heighten existing disciplines.

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