Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The best civics teachers also help students learn the skills they need to protect their rights. Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

His mother chaired the university’s history department. Gallot graduated from Grambling in 1987 and leveraged his HBCU degrees (Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990) to become a state representative for the area in 2000 and state senator in 2012 before being installed as the tenth president of GSU in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

But, with an eye toward local accountability and sustainability, the program demanded that the bulk of the heavy lifting, both financial and strategic, be done through a collaboration among city and education officials, community organizations, civic groups and local philanthropy. The real Say Yes story will be told in 20 years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Related: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson. The teacher, Charlotte Dial of Success Academy charter school in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, was suspended and investigated in 2016, but she returned to her post a week and a half later, according to a New York Times report. Students need their own hashtag.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

The 2016 election and the tumultuous start to Donald Trump’s presidency, which hits the 100-day mark next week, have presented civics teachers in red, blue and purple states alike with a double-edged sword. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Last fall, after the university’s admissions team worked to craft a more intentional recruiting plan, officials say they enrolled the most diverse freshman class in LSU’s nearly 160-year history. In 2016, 44 percent of Louisiana’s high school graduates were black. Percentage point change, 2015–2016. Flagship institution.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It also gives students – in our case predominantly Black, Latino and Asian – a better understanding of the importance of civic engagement for addressing social and racial inequities, especially relevant during these times of political polarization and protest.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there. Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there. High School in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward. What would it have been like without Katrina?’”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, it took two months longer to hit that dubious target. Just as it’s easier for students to learn French by speaking it in France, we need civics, literature and science to be practiced in communities rocked by nonsensical violence. As of May 31, there were 300 shooting victims in New Orleans.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A group of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP Boston Branch, the Greater Boston Latino Network, the Asian Pacific Islanders Civic Action Network and the Asian American Resource Workshop, as well as three families of color, are intervening in the lawsuit to try to uphold the new admissions process.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In 2013, 7,758 were enrolled, and in 2016 that number fell to 3,944. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics. In the last three years, the total number of aspiring teachers enrolled in any kind of preparatory program in the state has dropped by half.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When the AP United States history students at Aragon High School in San Mateo California, scanned the professionally designed pages of www.minimumwage.com , most concluded that it was a solid, unbiased source of facts and analysis. “I Northport, N.Y., Photo: Janis Shachter. They got duped.”.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In recent years, a number of states have passed civics testing mandates to pressure students to become more civically active. And how useful is civic education for those who chose to get involved? One idea that’s taken root is forcing students to take a civics test as a requirement for high school graduation.

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Diane Ravitch

JUNE 20, 2021

“This study is not an indictment of the students—they did what they’ve been taught to do—but the study should be troubling to anyone who cares about the future of democracy,” said Joel Breakstone, director of the Stanford History Education Group and the study’s lead author. “We The kids can do it,” Wineburg said. “We

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Including the Electoral College in your civics and government class is essential. This has happened five times in US history, twice in the last 25 years—the 2000 and 2016 elections. In 2016, three million more people voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump. You can check out this complete PBL-style project here.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

Voting Wars,” an investigation of voting rights and election participation, is the 2016 project of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program, a national multimedia, investigative reporting project produced by the nation’s top journalism students and graduates. It suffocates the civic impulse. Census data. Photo: Lily Altavena/News21.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

These kinds of head-scratching, politically ignorant actions lay bare the very reason that people need a quality liberal arts education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. By the time the final emergency manager pulled out in 2016, the district was broke.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 22, 2023

Two subjects where I felt confident as a reviewer, in addition to reading, were history and civics. I was momentarily dismayed, but not surprised, to learn that the NAEP scores in history and civics had declined, as they had in reading and math, after the disruptions and closings caused by the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

On Tuesday, millions of Americans went to the polls to elect the next president, ending what has been one of the most vitriolic campaigns in history. We also have a deep belief that children can learn about the history of this country — its triumphs and mistakes — to create a better future.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 5, 2023

Tim Slekar, Director of the Educator Preparation Program at Muskingum University in Ohio comments here on the recent report that NAEP scores in history and civics dropped during the pandemic. Where honest teaching about political events and history is considered divisive and may be criminalized? I wrote the above in 2018.

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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. 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. history and democracy depends on where you live, however.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Teaching civics is not only supposed to give people the basic skills to participate in a democracy, it should instill an appreciation of the fact that ignorance can be scaled up through policy. Unfortunately, the average score for white students on NAEP civics in 2018 was 16 points belowthe 178 needed to be deemed “proficient.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

government and African American history in Hamilton, Ohio. Mark Gomez, a history and social studies curriculum specialist for the Salinas Union High School District, works in Monterey, a predominantly blue county in California. Mark Gomez, a history and social studies curriculum specialist for the Salinas Union High School District.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

It’s about putting a face to the other side,” said Daniel Lewis, a junior who led a day-long Policy Challenge on March 30 for Tufts CIVIC, which stands for Cooperation and Innovation in Citizenship and is described as a “multipartisan discussion forum.” Then came verbal guidelines. Keep an open mind.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Related: After shocking election, New York history teacher tries to alleviate ‘despair, anxiety or indignation’. This civics lesson was a common one in classrooms Wednesday, whether they were embedded in relevant subjects or squeezed into other parts of the school day. Read more about the 2016 Election.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

That proportion was up by more than 8 percentage points from 2016 , and has been closing in on the voting rate for adults of all ages. Tisch College of Civic Life. “It More than half of Americans ages 18 to 24 turned out for the 2020 general election , according to the U.S. Census Bureau. You’re seeing a generation of activists.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

To the relief of many, it appears that this time — unlike in 2000 and 2016 — the candidate who got the most votes nationwide also won the presidential election. Textbooks and mainstream civics curricula make the same mistake, stipulating the brilliance of the framers, the democratic nature of our system and the infallibility of the U.S.

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