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But I do read memoirs—most recently, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (2018), by Arne Duncan. All rhetorical questions, as I have no intention of taking electronic pen to paper. Department of Education in 1980.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Drake and Matthew presented their research at a teach-in on campus in February 2018. The recent student protests caught the attention of Robin Kelley, a professor of American history and African-American studies at UCLA. In response, a handful of other students from across the university decided to join the two Ph.D.

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History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Brooks, “Reconsidering Politics in the Study of American Abolitionists,” Journal of the Civil War Era 8:2 (June 2018): 291-317; W. Cook, “Seeing the Visual in U.S. Wilson, “Visual Culture: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?,”

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AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss. Ole Miss decided to take a different path.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

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. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

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Lauren Goepfert is a student in the Master of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University. Named the 2018 Madison Fellow for the state of Florida, she now teaches at Longwood High School on Long Island, NY.

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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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JANUARY 21, 2017

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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JANUARY 14, 2018

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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OCTOBER 29, 2018

High school students hold a banner while marching to the South Boulder Recreation Center to vote and turn in election ballots in early voting in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday October 25, 2018. And when white history is the standard, when history is told from the point of view of the white people, you might well believe, like failed U.S.

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JULY 15, 2018

July 11, 2018 – Washington, D.C. History has demonstrated these views to be dangerous. This a stained slice of American history. Judge Brett Kavanaugh meets with senators on Capitol Hill ahead of the confirmation hearings for his nomination as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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MAY 5, 2023

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. Where honest teaching about political events and history is considered divisive and may be criminalized? I wrote the above in 2018.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Unfortunately, the average score for white students on NAEP civics in 2018 was 16 points belowthe 178 needed to be deemed “proficient.”. White students also lack a good grasp of history — they scored 22 points lower than the minimum level of achievement or “cut score” on the NAEP U.S.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Authors of history textbooks writing about the failed insurrection of Jan. The influence of white supremacy on American history has largely been disregarded by past and present writers, especially in accounts of the Civil War. It’s a notion that has long been baked into history textbooks and social studies curricula.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

In 2018 he proposed cuts to the Child Care and Development Block Grant, a federal program that helps low-income families pay for child care, but ultimately approved funding increases passed by Congress in both 2018 and 2020. billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant. Nirvi Shah Teaching about U.S.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

As a senator in 2018, Harris sponsored legislation designed to reunite migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico In a speech to the American Federation of Teachers , Harris decried the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” laws passed by Florida and other states in recent years. They’re wrong,” she wrote on X.

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