Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

Hes concluded that Reagans optimistic, good-humored leadership style blunted partisan fights. Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas. He switched to 6 th through 12 th grade social studies education after concluding that politics had grown too ugly.

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Junior High Library K-12 Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. Logan Dubin, eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 134

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it. Schools superintendent Dennis Dupree came to the city 12 years ago, promising innovation.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

For the first few years, white students refused to elect black students to the homecoming court and to leadership positions, for example. Sumner Hill Junior High, now the district’s ninth-grade school, used to be a majority-black school before the district incorporated it into its zone. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 76

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.” Black and white students shared school leadership positions and leads in the class plays. The private school now has a manicured campus and around 700 students, K-12, the vast majority white, 1.6

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

The board is currently reviewing the state’s K-12 health standards, which mention suicide prevention parenthetically. Currently 12 states, including Texas and Vermont, require that education on suicide awareness and prevention be included in the curriculum, according to an email from Gibson. He said kids need more resources.

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Education K-12 High School Advocacy 134

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. But in an era of bold, no-nonsense school leadership, the standards plan put Gist on the map as a rising star in education. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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