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60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer

Teaching American History

Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America? The post 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer appeared first on Teaching American History. Malik Ali teaching.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Many colleges and universities are grappling with their historical connections to slavery. based, actively working to address issues of race and inequality on college campuses and “the complicated legacies of slavery in modern American society.”. Vitter in June 2017, six sites were chosen.

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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

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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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

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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A professor’s proposed Black History Month course for one student: President Donald Trump

The Hechinger Report

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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STUDENT VOICE: Lost on campus in the Supreme Court’s shuffle?

The Hechinger Report

classrooms in the fall of 2017. Leave this field empty if you're human: Justice Kennedy twice supported the inclusion of race in the admissions program at the University of Texas. This a stained slice of American history. Roughly 75 million students entered U.S. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Question the President

Zinn Education Project

presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery. As Howard Zinn explained, “Jackson was a land speculator, merchant, slave trader, and the most aggressive enemy of the Indians in early American history.” Children’s books put students on a first-name basis with the presidents.