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NCHE Partners with the Library of Congress

NCHE

The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). As of February 2025, NCHE serves as the director of one of the Librarys newest regional granting entities, the Great Plains Region.

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A System for Meeting Absent Students’ Needs (and Everyone Else’s Too)

Cult of Pedagogy

In 2018, approximately 15 percent of American students were considered chronically absent ; in 2022, that number had risen to 28 percent. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading.

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It’s 2018, not 1918. Basic skills are not enough.

Dangerously Irrelevant

schools opening , Library of Congress. The Des Moines Register’s editorial on student retention is lazy and irresponsible. Smoking, steroids, illegal drugs, and 3rd grade retention? Image credit: N.Y. Related Posts. Holding back our children. Which schools are the true ‘miracles?’ ’ My son is 8. He’s a maker.

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PROOF POINTS: The literacy secret that Dolly Parton knows: Free books work.

The Hechinger Report

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was one of the book giveaway programs that obtained “impressive” results for early childhood literacy in a May 2020 analysis by international researchers. Imagination Library, launched by American country music star Dolly Parton, mails a new book a month from birth to age 5.

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Closed Schools Shine Light on the Value of Edtech Coaches

Digital Promise

Multiple surveys (for example, this 2018 survey from PWC ) report that many teachers in the United States do not have enough experience, resources, or training to use technology in the most effective ways, especially in low-income schools.

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States want adults to return to college. Many roadblocks stand in the way

The Hechinger Report

By the summer of 2018, it had been more than 30 years since Maronda Mims had started her college journey. She used her smartphone as an internet hot spot, and when it failed, if she didnt have time to go to the library for internet access, she said she fell behind.

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PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

The Hechinger Report

An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study across approximately 30 countries found that teens who said they most often read paper books scored considerably higher on a 2018 reading test taken by 15-year-olds compared to teens who said they rarely or never read books.

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