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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. 25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. The primary source. We let the people of history tell their own story.

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How does an NCHE Colloquium come together?

NCHE

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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The Impact of a Teacher

Studies Weekly

When surveyed about the characteristics of an impactful teacher in 2017, Terada expressed that people rarely mentioned academics or test scores. We actually learn much more effectively in a state of positive emotion than we can learn in a state of negative emotion. That has huge implications for what you do in schools.

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In Philadelphia, a symbol of police brutality comes down, and a monument to black student protesters will go up

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

Their ire was reserved for the state, which they saw as the primary source of subsidy funding. billion for the Child Care and Development Fund, the single largest increase in the fund’s history. Also, Congress did not provide the funding to make the required quality improvements until 2018 when it approved an additional $2.4

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Making America whole again via civics education

The Hechinger Report

Tim Matthews, a middle school history teacher outside Boston, uses iCivics games to teach the Constitution, which his class calls “the rulebook.” Last fall, the folks at iCivics anticipated a 20 to 30 percent bump in game plays, in line with what happened in the election year of 2012.

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

The Hechinger Report

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history when black lives mattered.”.

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