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TAH Multiday Prompts Discussion of Partisanship, Then and Now

Teaching American History

Invited to attend a TAH multiday seminar on the Cold War at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, social studies teacher Cade Lohrding was thrilled. Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

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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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

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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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

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. She started off with a list of myths.

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