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Why Government Teacher Amy Messick Ran For School Board

Teaching American History

By August 2024 she would complete her degree in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, giving her time for such an endeavor. In 2017, she began taking occasional courses in MAHG, realizing she needed to get some refreshers. Some of them encourage her.

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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. School District.

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Should student protests try to change a campus or change society?

The Hechinger Report

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 effect, these students are seeking to change not just the culture on their campus but to use their school to change society. Pushing to divest.

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Resources for Teacher and Instructional Coaches – March 2021

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Here are some interesting reads for teachers and instructional coaches around recommendations around reopening, teaching culturally responsive teaching, and prioritizing student mental health. . Help your students see themselves when teaching American history.

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OPINION: America’s common narrative exists — and it must include Muslims and refugees

The Hechinger Report

But the consensus has also promoted individual freedom, political democracy, world peace and cultural tolerance, now growing into acceptance. Back in the District of Columbia, African-American history gained two sites. In 2017, American civil religion stands at a crossroads. Even Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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2023 Schedule & Syllabus

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History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Wilson, “Visual Culture: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?,” in The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader , eds. Reading: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Schwartz and Jeannene M.

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The feds want transparency on foreign gifts to U.S. universities. Here are the foreign universities that get U.S. money

The Hechinger Report

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.