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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). About the Teaching with Primary Sources Program (TPS) The Teaching with Primary Sources program has been the Library of Congresss premier educational outreach program.

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Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

The Hechinger Report

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Credit: Image provided by Patty Topliffe Poor reading skills are a nationwide issue.

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For Native Americans, Unequal Child Care Funding Leaves Tribes in Need

ED Surge

The center worked with the National Indian Child Care Association to analyze 184 tribal child care plans submitted to HHS for the 2019-2022 fiscal year. The high school graduation rate among Native students rose from around 52 percent in 2013 to a high of 84 percent in 2019, she says.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

2019) The most common tropes of the history of the institution of enslavement — what we learn in school (if not banned) and in movies — is that white women’s participation was limited to being innocent bystanders. She retells history with expert analyses of historical artifacts, primary sources and thorough research.

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Creating Performance Levels Descriptors to Support Inquiry in the Post-COVID Classroom

C3 Teachers

In 2019, I wrote about how I began my year pre-assessing student performance on the skills central to the IDM: (1) making evidence-based arguments. After 2019, and in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on student learning, I altered how I consider student performance on their pre-assessment.

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Fresh Food, Dance Class, and Nap Mats: What's Lost Without Federal Money for Child Care

ED Surge

In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. Revenue and Subsidies Gale’s primary source of revenue is what she collects from the families who use her center, with some additional funding from the state for families who qualify for a subsidy.

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The Nationwide Reading Struggle

Studies Weekly

The 2022 Stanford National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that math and science reading test scores dropped significantly between 2019 and 2022. Now, with schools back in-person, many teachers are seeing the toll the pandemic took on students’ reading abilities.