The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

For decades, fights over racist historical monuments and markers have swirled in and around America’s public education system. About 140 public school buildings are still named after Confederate leaders, according to a 2018 analysis by Education Week. In June, a video featuring Louisiana activist Gary Chambers Jr.

Archiving 137

Archiving Museum History Primary Sources 137

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

We cannot create new understandings and narratives without recognizing the relative absence of Asian Americans from school curricula. Wayne Zhang is a graduate student at Northwestern University who will be teaching social studies next year at Amundsen High School in Chicago Public Schools. There are signs of progress.

American History 108

American History History Teaching Primary Sources 108

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

But there is no college here and no public school. Outside of local government and a prison, the primary source of jobs are the farms that have existed since before the Civil War. Many residents, Black and white, aren’t troubled by Issaquena’s lack of public schools because the population is so small.

Primary Sources 104

Primary Sources Public School Economics Tradition 104

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States.

Inclusive Curriculum 104

Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 104

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Purdy conducts a deep dive into the history of desegregation in Georgia with an examination of a prestigious Atlanta private school, which was part of a movement of “segregationist academies” (p. 4) in the 1960s, when public schools were required to racially integrate.

History 104

History Teaching Sociology Oral History 104

Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

A student is considered chronically absent if they miss at least 10% of the total school year, around 18 full days. In 2023, 26% of all public school students in the United States were chronically absent. One of the most pervasive issues is chronic student absenteeism.

Heritage 52

Heritage Primary Sources K-12 Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Parks had been caring for children in one setting or another since she was 9 years old and closely observed her mother, a Detroit Public Schools special education teacher. After graduating high school, she began working at a child care center for teen mothers. Of course, one of the most obvious solutions is more money.

K-12 82

K-12 Primary Sources Museum History 82

4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

All of these tasks require the kinds of thinking skills described by the College Board or Common Core, but 4QM students know why they are doing things like reading primary sources, comparing and contrasting two different places or two different times, or synthesizing information from a variety of sources.

Primary Sources 40

Primary Sources Social Studies Civics History 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

It encourages students to answer even the most challenging questions about our country’s past and present by engaging with primary sources to learn a more complete history of the United States and its constitutional democracy from multiple perspectives. The roadmap is now being put into practice in school districts across the country.

Civics 129

Civics Primary Sources Civic Engagement K-12 129

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

But despite those new expectations, most school districts in the state where the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till mobilized black Americans still use textbooks that give local civil rights milestones short shrift. Before 2011, Mississippi public school students weren’t required to learn about the Civil Rights Movement at all.

K-12 91

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 91

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School. The school is steeped in history: It was the first African American public school in Kentucky, and counts boxer Muhammad Ali among its alumni.

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

Nettie explains to her daughter the meaning of the high court’s ruling in the Brown Vs. Board of Education case that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. Wealthier neighborhoods to hoard wealth and maintain a racially separate school system through a financial structure based on property taxes. Supreme Court.

Charter School 99

Charter School Education Primary Sources Economics 99

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The tsunami of laws and Executive Orders attacking public school curricula mobilize a range of doublespeak, from divisive concepts to race scapegoating to psychological stress; many include the admonition that teachers may not teach students that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist.

Social Justice 98

Social Justice Primary Sources History Civics 98

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I think that the CRT tracking project out of UCLA has now shown that almost half of the students in the American public school system are subjected to one of these laws that criminalize teaching the truth about race or gender or sexuality. I love the ideas of picture books and primary sources for young children, too.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52