Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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American History 52

American History Primary Sources History Government 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 27 percent of children in Louisiana lived below the poverty level in 2014. That means a family of four with two children survived on $24,008, the income level at which a family is considered to be extremely poor by the federal government. Photo: Della Hasselle.

Primary Sources 82

Primary Sources Advocacy Government Education 82

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

Like the majority of parents in her income bracket, Haskins gets no government help covering that cost. In fact, the federal government provided child care subsidies to just one in six children eligible to receive them in 2015, according to the U.S. More than half ( 53 percent ) are eligible for some form of government benefit.

Government 137

Government Primary Sources Elementary School Humanities 137

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Students are suddenly eager to talk politics and government, but the hyper-partisan reality beyond school walls makes it hard to pull off these discussions in class. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips. President Lyndon B.

Civics 89

Civics Education K-12 Primary Sources 89

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

A coup backed by the US government and conducted by Sanford Dole resulted in Queen Liliuokalani’s deposal, according to smithsonianmag.com. government orders to go to an internment camp, as they were called then, saying it was unconstitutional. Unfortunately, she was also Hawaii’s last sovereign ruler. In 1944, the U.S.

Heritage 59

Heritage Teaching K-12 Museum 59

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. And I’m not even sure she actually was asked; it wasn’t a leading question.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52