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JULY 30, 2018

Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

Back in the District of Columbia, African-American history gained two sites. Memorial opened in 2011, and 2016 saw the National Museum of African American History and Culture , in a dark building across the street from the shining white obelisk of the Washington Monument. The Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2020

Since early 2017, students at Harvard have been pressing school administrators to sever the school’s financial ties to companies that support what they call the prison-industrial complex. In fall 2017, Harvard Ph.D. In 2017, black people went to prison at a rate that was nearly six times higher than white people. “We

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Political Science Now

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He also served on the Teaching and Learning Conference Program Committee from 2012 through 2017, helping to organize the structure and content of the meetings. He began attending in the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference in 2008 and served as a track moderator starting in 2011-2014 for the Diversity, Inclusiveness, and Equality Track.

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History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Reading: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2021); Lucretia Giese, “Winslow Homer’s Prisoners from the Front: an American History Painting?”

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MARCH 26, 2021

Help your students see themselves when teaching American history. Here are some helpful tips on how to properly discuss race when teaching American history. . Additionally, school staffs should be trained in trauma-informed practices, Dirsmith said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

based, actively working to address issues of race and inequality on college campuses and “the complicated legacies of slavery in modern American society.”. In 2017, Georgetown University acknowledged that it owed its existence to the slave trade; it apologized for selling 272 slaves in 1838 to finance the university.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Students on the campus of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. government since the 2017 budget year. taxpayer money has gone to foreign universities since the 2017 budget year. million to foreign universities since the 2017 budget year. Photo: Scott Peterson/Getty Images. Foreign gifts to U.S. million in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. The program was also offered in 2016 and 2017. history and its legacy today.” The materials can be downloaded free.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 25, 2025

Early in his first term, President Donald Trump signed the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017 , establishing March 29 as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. The so-called police action in Vietnam evolved over time to become the most challenging war in American history. President Lyndon Johnson visits with U.S.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Malik Ali, a James Madison Fellow and 2017 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, is Tukman Distinguished Teacher of History at the Branson School in Ross, California. The post 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer appeared first on Teaching American History.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Spring 2017. This course is an introduction to the histories of African Americans for those who talk favorably about “departed” black heroes like Ben Carson but find it difficult to recognize a black president. Session 1: Field Trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture with U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

classrooms in the fall of 2017. This a stained slice of American history. We are losing a crucial voice for affirmative action, LGBTQ rights and abortion rights — and many unanswered questions remain. Roughly 75 million students entered U.S. Students are no longer sitting idly by.

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As Howard Zinn explained, “Jackson was a land speculator, merchant, slave trader, and the most aggressive enemy of the Indians in early American history.” 02, 2017 “When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, dont forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.”

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Authors of history textbooks writing about the failed insurrection of Jan. The influence of white supremacy on American history has largely been disregarded by past and present writers, especially in accounts of the Civil War. 6, 2021 must not ignore the event’s white supremacist underpinnings.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

With respect to Native students, Trump as president released a “Putting America’s First Peoples First” brief outlining his promises to Indian Country, including access to college scholarships for Native American students, creating new tribally operated charter schools and improving the beleaguered agency that oversees K-12 education on reservations.

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