Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University. The post Secrecy Encourages Careful Deliberation appeared first on Teaching American History.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

On September 13, 2017, UVA renamed the medical education and research building formerly known as Jordan Hall as Pinn Hall. 13, 2017, the University of Virginia renamed the medical education and research building formerly known as Jordan Hall as Pinn Hall, after renowned black physician Vivian W. Pinn, Senior Scientist Emerita NIH.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Prehistoric Advantage of ADHD Traits For most of human history, Homo sapiens lived as hunter-gatherers. Fossil evidence indicates that our species has existed in this mode of life for at least 288,000 years, which accounts for approximately 95% of our evolutionary history. Biological Sciences , 291 (2017). Brannon, E.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Tibetan community in Vancouver includes approximately 700 people, more than 200 of whom migrated from four settlements in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to Canada through a federal refugee resettlement program between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Tibetan parents in Vancouver decided to organize efforts to care for their heritage language.

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Becoming a History Teacher

MAY 26, 2024

It does make sense to ask about substantive concepts in a subject like history where there is no ‘canon’ of knowledge. Interview Intentions It has left me pondering what the interviewers were looking for in an answer. What was their intention behind this question? Did they mean for its purpose to be opaque?

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” With Francis’s help, we began to frame a colloquium to focus on the pre-19 th century period and chose the title, “ Uncovering Lost Voices in American History.”

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

Of particular note is his interest in exploring political history and American political development through the lens of the Congress. David Greenstone Award from the APSA Politics and History Organized Section. He has also received the Philip E. He is also the co-author of Partisan Hearts and Minds, which was published in 2002.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy has developed extensive external partnerships with leaders of other associations such as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she has served on the Science and Human Rights Coalition Council since 2017. Dr. Kimberly A.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

14,385: This is the average amount spent per Black pupil in public school, compared with $14,263 per white student, according to a 2022 analysis of 2017-18 data by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. The next year, the school made it official, finally holding an integrated event. But the A.P. course, an elective, became ensnared in politics.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

Schools have a long history of policing Native students’ graduation attire, often citing longstanding policies that all students must look alike and that deviations from the standard cap and gown are distracting. In 2017, Montana became the first state in the nation to protect Native students’ right to wear regalia.

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 11, 2023

Paleoanthropology is a scientific discipline dedicated to illuminating our evolutionary history. 2017) Paleoanthropologists’ business is in death. Unsuspecting students from all backgrounds learn about the selection pressures that shaped our evolutionary history. ” Elife 6 (2017): e24232. From (Hawks et al.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

I am excited to join at this critical time in Digital Promise’s history as we embark on setting ambitious goals and designing bold solutions to achieve better educational outcomes for historically and systematically excluded students.”.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I visited Colleton County High School in 2017 and was thoroughly impressed with students’ deep engagement in their courses, many of which were project-based as part of the New Tech Network. I had not learned of this fascinating portion of our state’s history until after graduating from the University of South Carolina. Former Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2019

Then I took a class with Gene Woods, following the Facing History and Ourselves curriculum. For instance, we learned in the Facing History curriculum about the Holocaust in which six million Jewish people were among those murdered. The history we were learning about was my history, too. I didn’t talk to anyone.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

A prominent anti-vaccine campaigner, Heckenlively made world news in 2017 when he was denied entry to Australia for a lecture tour to encourage parents to stop vaccinating their children, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. This story also appeared in USA Today. Data show many of the 69,000 U.S. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

percent in 2017. In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. percent in 2017. The high school dropped from a Level 1 school in 2015 to a Level 3 school in 2017 on the state report card, which looks at standardized test scores.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Brayton is now 29, a civil engineer and mother of two, the first in her family to attend college – she graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2017 – and to own a home. Ross never allowed her to give up and pushed her to apply for scholarships and attend college. Someone simply took the time to notice and believed in me.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

It was startling, Nia thought, how studying history could leave her feeling the same heaviness she’d felt scrolling social media after police had killed Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald, young Black people of her own generation. Tatiana Bennett was studying the history of hip-hop. Credit: Courtesy of Helen Gym.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2020

Over 800,000 early childhood educators have earned this credential in its 45-year history. That’s why, in 2017, we introduced the CDA Gold Standard, which affirms the quality of training and professional development programs across the United States. Related: Our fragile child care ‘system’ may be about to shatter.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Creating a Song In the summer of 2017, rapper Cardi B dropped the Diamond-certified single, “ Bodak Yellow ”, and my students couldn’t get enough of it. For Black History Month , students were not permitted in the school building due to public health guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In 2016, The School for Creative Studies, in Durham, North Carolina, prevented black students from wearing traditional head wraps, or geles , a symbol used to represent the students’ connection with Africa — during Black History month, no less! School districts are not the only entities hiding their racism behind laws that provide cover.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

One hard-hit district is Plumas, which encompasses Greenville, a mountain town that burned virtually to the ground in the Dixie Fire, the second-biggest blaze in state history. Nationwide, 6,444 schools are located in counties at high risk of flooding, according to a 2017 Pew Trusts report. We should not wait until disaster strikes.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2023

When I first ran for school board in 2017, I was concerned about climate change personally but honestly didn’t understand what role I could play as a school board member. We also have a responsibility to ensure those improvements happen equitably and don’t perpetuate the climate injustice that already plagues our nation’s cities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report It also places the Rodriguez sisters on opposite sides of history: Ashley applied to college when schools in many states could still consider race, while Emily can expect no such advantage. percent in 2017 to 9.2 We have so much history behind us as people of color,” Emily said. “So

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art. Yet higher education has also kept building.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

Credit: Image provided by Nick Chiles Vivid memories of that day came flooding back to me in the fall of 2017, when we dropped Mari off for her freshman year at Yale — 11 years after her first encounter. percent , the lowest in recent history. The overall acceptance rate for the class of 2027 was 4.35 percent; Asian students, 22.8

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

1EdTech inherited Open Badges from Mozilla in 2017. Your history course may not specify that you are gaining skills in research, writing and evaluation logic. One of the original concepts of microcredentials came from Mozilla’s drive for open recognition of skills through badges.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

9, 2017 — just weeks before Stone was to begin his senior year at the small Roman Catholic college in northwest Detroit — he got an urgent call from a friend telling him to check the college’s website. It was the best example of mission-based education,” said Anne White-O’Hara, 64, a history professor who taught at Marygrove for 31 years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

history standards as well. Eighth-grade math scores fell three points since the last time NAEP was administered in 2017. Department of Education called Algebra I the gateway course to all higher math study. The troubling trend continued with state English and math tests aligned with the new, weaker standards.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2022

A study in The Journal for Community Health found that the rate of death by suicide among Black girls ages 13 to 19 rose 182 percent between 2001 and 2017. Creating positive school climates in which Black students’ identities are celebrated beyond Black History Month and Juneteenth. These numbers demand action.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With a focus on diverse life histories, the project shows how one crisis can cascade into another, morphing into a constellation of social, interpersonal, aspirational and financial losses. In 2017, Ricardo lost his job due to the devastations of Hurricane Maria.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. CPRS grew out of then-First Lady Michelle Obama’s “ Reach Higher ” initiative, and recommendations were published in a January 2017 report, “ The State of School Counseling: Revisiting the Path Forward.”

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