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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

Some parents are really worried about Covid and their child getting sick, but one of the main reasons is about culture. We want them to know a lot about their culture.”. If you know your culture, if you know where you come from, you’re stronger,” she said. What we’re trying to do is revive our culture,” she said. “So

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2023 Institute Faculty

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Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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2023 Schedule & Syllabus

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History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Wilson, “Visual Culture: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?,” in The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader , eds. Reading: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Schwartz and Jeannene M.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

Formally, he was the director of a place that we hold very dear, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The most important thing they did is they redefined their crime, not as crimes of nationality, of an innate culture. Her solution was not to denigrate the cultures of these people. Thanks, T.

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

The Hechinger Report

Vance, meanwhile, made education culture war issues central to his 2022 run for Senate. On his campaign website, he pledged to cut funding for state universities in Ohio that teach critical race theory and “to force our schools to give an honest, patriotic account of American history.” — C.P.

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What education could look like under Harris and Walz

The Hechinger Report

During his time as governor, Walz signed legislation last year to make college tuition-free for Native American students in Minnesota and required K-12 teachers to complete training on Native American history. In 2013, as California state attorney general, she sued Corinthian Colleges, Inc.,

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