Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.” I watch them spread their wings.”

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 12, 2023

Understanding the recent past This has got me thinking about some lessons I’ve observed over the last year or so which have touched on late C20th history – the Fight for Rights in 1960s and 70s Britain at Key Stage 3 or the Making of Modern Britain at A Level, for example. Teaching History 135 , 50-57. References Counsell, C.

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History Leadership Teaching Economics 52

Anthropology.net

MAY 6, 2024

In the heart of Central Italy lies a region steeped in history, where the whispers of the past offer invaluable insights into the present challenges of wildfire management. Valley of Calci after fires in September 2018. Read more

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. She liked the people and the culture and the history. You know how Ms. Nonetheless, she was watching.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

His particular focus and subsequent publication about the Gimi concerned their medical beliefs and practices, but not until 2018 did Nansi and Len publish their beautifully illustrated Among the Gimi: Fieldwork as Personal Experience. Leonard Glick published two books based on his research on Jewish history and Judaism.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. History and Civics scores for eighth-grade students sounded an alarm: scores have dropped by an average of five points since 2018 and nine points since 2014.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

2024 A Global History of Ancient Games Board games have been part of human culture for millennia. The research, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , offers fresh insights into this ancient game and its cultural significance. The Fifty-Eight holes board from Çapmalı W. Crist et al.,

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Archaeologists do not in any noteworthy way direct armies, shape economies, write laws, or imprison or free people from bondage (McGuire, 2018). style='mso-element:field-begin'> TOC o "1-4" h z u Archaeology of power and identity: the political use of the discipline.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Unlike their Finnish counterparts, Japanese teens improved upon their 2018 PISA scores in every subject despite the Covid-19 disruption. The study also indicated that — for the first time in its history — virtually all first-graders owned phones, including phone watches. Japan, another high-achieving nation, has also done this.

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K-12 Charter School Government History 144

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Excavations starting in 2018 unearthed artifacts and charcoal samples, enabling precise radiocarbon dating. Dating back to the Late Preceramic Period, this plaza predates iconic structures like the Great Pyramids of Egypt and Stonehenge, marking it as a significant milestone in architectural history.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. In a state where almost one-third of residents are Black, in 2018, only 8 percent of students at the flagship university were Black and only 3 percent were Black men.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

While overregulation occurs across linguistic contexts, the specificity of the #NoSaboKid is co-constitutive with histories of immigration from Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to Anglophone countries like the United States. In taking a lead from Salva and L.A.,

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Digital Promise

MARCH 18, 2021

Since launching in March 2018, MY World 360 ° has screened 31 immersive stories at UN events around the world. Leading up to the SDG Global Festival of Action , we’re thrilled to announce a new MY World 360 ° playlist featuring immersive storytelling and design projects from across the globe.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Missouri Western State University eliminated majors, minors and concentrations in English, history, philosophy, sociology, political science, art and other subjects. Spending on higher education fell in 16 of the 20 most rural states between 2008 and 2018, when adjusted for inflation.

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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

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. But James Ramos, who is the first Native American to serve in the California legislature, doesn’t think the law goes far enough.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2024

I cried the day I gained acceptance to Wesleyan University in 2018. No matter how much I told myself that I belonged, the insidious history of Wesleyan, from its pictures to its architecture to its racial makeup, was a haunting reminder that while I may have gained entry into this world, Black people generally do not.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2024

Their fearful reactions will widen the already concerning inequities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic students; the degree completion gap between Latino and white students increased between 2018 and 2021. Feedback from professors in areas such as history and philosophy strengthened the guidelines, adding valuable perspectives.

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ED Surge

JUNE 20, 2023

It was 2018, on the first day of seventh grade. In 2018, I believe the fall of 2018, because we had found that students having cellphones was interfering with student learning. I sat down with my school’s history and debate teacher, Mr. Kossof, to get his take. It was boiling, and there was lots of disgruntled chatter.

History 103

History High School Research Education 103

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

And the California State University system as a whole is one of the biggest remote educators in the country; more than 150,000 students took online courses there in the 2018-19 academic year. A history with online education made this spring’s transition easier for some schools.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In 2018, I attended a workshop where I talked with a game-app developer. This is history in the making, and it is exciting to be a part of it! This is history in the making, and it is exciting to be a part of it! Did we have failures? Absolutely. There was always something to improve, something that went wrong.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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Museum American History History Library 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Discussions of tribal culture were limited to a few isolated craft projects during a history unit and inaccurate portrayals of Indians at the “First Thanksgiving,” he recalled.

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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 120

ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. College enrollment has been on the decline, dropping 7 percent between 2010 and 2018. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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Tradition EdTech Research Education Policy 132

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The history of scientific exploration is plagued by the explicit biases of those who perform research in their institutions and therefore hold power. As of 2018, membership was still only 9 percent female. History proves otherwise. Black Lives Matter, demanding conversations around racism at research institutions.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 25, 2024

Riverhead Books, Reprint edition, 2018. The post Water Rights in the West: The Hoover Dam appeared first on Teaching American History. David Owen, Where the Water Goes : Life and Death Along the Colorado River. Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water , Penguin: Revised Edition, 1993.

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American History Library Government History 88

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The burned remains of the Paradise Elementary school as seen Friday, November 9, 2018, in Paradise, California. 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. Credit: Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo.

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Education Elementary School High School K-12 142

ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. From 2018 to 2023, the college recorded a 39 percent increase in Monmouth County high school students enrolling in its college-level courses. That push is evident at Brookdale.

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High School K-12 Sociology Psychology 141

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

2019; Kleekamp & Zapata, 2018). The Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy Framework , developed by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad, is an equity model that can support the development and evaluation of an anti-racist curriculum that celebrates the identities, histories, and accomplishments of culturally and historically marginalized people.

Cultures 135

Cultures Education Professional Development Library 135

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Even in less expensive areas, child care workers have never had much wiggle room on finances; a 2018 survey in Minnesota found 55 percent worried about bills and 24 percent worried about food. We already knew that caregivers who provided child care for the most vulnerable families were likely to come from a history of trauma.”.

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Education Economics History 120

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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Heritage History High School Humanities 87

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While the percentage of white students has steadily decreased nationwide in recent decades — from 54 percent in 2009 to 47 percent in 2018 — nearly 80 percent of public school teachers are white, according to the most recent federal survey. In 2018-19, 45 percent of new teacher hires in Highline were people of color.

High School 145

High School Cultures Leadership Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

They graduated from Amherst College in 2018. Kyndall Ashe, 2018 graduate of Amherst College. If you’re wondering if you can say the N-word, Black at Tulane has a detailed Instagram story explaining the history of the word and who should and shouldn’t say it.

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