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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

With the internet, students can access primary source documents, research just about anything, and support their own understanding with explanations accompanied by video, animations, or other helpful visualizations. school and library to the internet. Access Resources. Use Professional Tools.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. Students will need to craft a research question, read relevant sources and synthesize what they learn in a short paper. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. Yet at the beginning of 2014, Ruth Cady became pregnant.

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Where to Find Stuff on tah.org: Document Page

Teaching American History

When our site pops up in the search results, and they click on our site, they see that we have thousands of primary source documents, many accompanied by introductions and study questions. Most teachers discover our database when searching for a specific document. in the TAH bookstore.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

The teachers learned about the Tougaloo Nine , a group of students from historically black Tougaloo College in Jackson, who staged read-ins at the white-only Jackson Municipal Library in 1961. In a 2014 report, the group said the state had improved somewhat, covering 50 percent of recommended content. And not just in February.

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

Zinn Education Project

You are often limited in your ability to teach certain topics by the dependence upon primary sources rather than secondary sources. I mean, one of the big problems with the so-called AP African American Studies curriculum was the debate over what was a primary source versus secondary source. 11, 1972: D.C.