2016 American History Social Studies 
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 27, 2020
Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 1, 2018
Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report.
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Teaching American History
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. Social studies teachers must lay the groundwork by earning students’ trust.
Future of History
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Here’s how Sarah Cooper taught her 8th grade social studies class today, as the nation went about determining a presidential winner. Unlike the day after the 2016 election, “I’m feeling not so much shock as the need to shore up my teaching and once again dig into difficult topics.” The post The Day After: How Do We Teach Now?
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2018
To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. history and social studies curriculums. The program was also offered in 2016 and 2017.
Diane Ravitch
MAY 5, 2023
Slekar writes: “In the 1930s, George Counts dared the schools to “build a new social order” comprised of an active, critical citizenry, challenging industrial society’s inequities through boldly democratic education. There were no headlines about the dismal state of teaching and learning American history and civics in 2018.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 25, 2021
The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. Most Americans were appalled. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence.
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