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2023 Institute Faculty

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She was director of exhibitions at the New York Public Library, and previously a senior content developer and interpretive planner in the New York office of the museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, where she worked on the development of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, along with other international projects.

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WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 1

Teaching American History

Keene at MAHG 2021 Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. For Europeans, World War I was devastating.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. School administrators have set a goal of giving every student in the district a computer by 2018.

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Tim Slekar: Drop in History and Civics Scores is “Fake News”

Diane Ravitch

Tim Slekar, Director of the Educator Preparation Program at Muskingum University in Ohio comments here on the recent report that NAEP scores in history and civics dropped during the pandemic. I wrote the above in 2018. There were no headlines about the dismal state of teaching and learning American history and civics in 2018.

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OPINION: Donald Trump and the white achievement gap

The Hechinger Report

Teaching civics is not only supposed to give people the basic skills to participate in a democracy, it should instill an appreciation of the fact that ignorance can be scaled up through policy. Unfortunately, the average score for white students on NAEP civics in 2018 was 16 points belowthe 178 needed to be deemed “proficient.”.

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