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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. To connect students to important historical events that have shaped America and the world, we often must go to the source. The primary source. Connecting Kids to History Studies Weekly uses primary sources to share real accounts.

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Charter school leaders should talk more about racism

The Hechinger Report

The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy found that local governments provide nearly half of the funds for local school districts. Property taxes are not only a key source of school district funding, they are the primary source of revenue for the communities they sit in. Federal and state revenue streams fill the remainder.

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Broken system: Child care subsidies ensure low-quality, limit access

The Hechinger Report

Like the majority of parents in her income bracket, Haskins gets no government help covering that cost. In fact, the federal government provided child care subsidies to just one in six children eligible to receive them in 2015, according to the U.S. More than half ( 53 percent ) are eligible for some form of government benefit.

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Making America whole again via civics education

The Hechinger Report

Students are suddenly eager to talk politics and government, but the hyper-partisan reality beyond school walls makes it hard to pull off these discussions in class. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips. President Lyndon B.

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

The Hechinger Report

Most of those gains were lost, however, in 1877 when the federal government pulled troops out of the South. Once the federal government left, a backlash began. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The program was also offered in 2016 and 2017. Board of Education decision.

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