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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. Over the past two decades, the FCC through its E-Rate program has connected just about every U.S. Access Resources.

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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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One of the worst states at caring for low-income babies and toddlers

The Hechinger Report

According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 27 percent of children in Louisiana lived below the poverty level in 2014. According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

After selling her business in 2014 for $500 million, she has launched new companies and invested many women-owned businesses. Start a 60 day FREE trial for Studies Weekly Online to gain access to K-6 social studies curriculum, primary source videos, and more.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

So when one student says she plans to study the Bermuda Triangle, the professor recommends that she ask a librarian—maybe the one who talked to the class earlier in the semester—to help her curate a reading list of secondary sources. As for primary sources, the professor suggests looking for a map, or a ship’s record, or a diary entry.

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Shaking Up High School Math

Achieve the Core

They were our primary source of relevant information, after all. One year, we all wanted to watch the final four basketball games during class, so we wrote some math problems about basketball and then we had to watch them. One widely cited study of a group of Northern California school districts found that 44.3 Enter badging.

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Making America whole again via civics education

The Hechinger Report

According to Paula McAvoy, a co-author of The Political Classroom (2014) and program director of the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “the main challenge teachers face is finding resources that are current, present multiple and competing views, and are at the right reading level.”.

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