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OPINION: Arts education must move beyond traditional models and embrace practical skills and hands-on learning

The Hechinger Report

Art history students in particular face growing difficulty in securing employment outside academic circles. art and art history education is in crisis : While 5,300 art history degrees were awarded in 2012, the number fell to just 3,500 in 2022 a 34 percent decline, The Nation reported. In the U.S.,

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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

The collection includes quick facts on the Palestinian Nakba (“Catastrophe”) ; Israel’s History of Spreading Disinformation ; the Nakba and Palestine Refugees ; Israel’s Environmental Apartheid in Palestine; and many more. In my capacity as a secondary history educator, I strategically incorporated a Democracy Now!