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Waiting for the traveling teacher: Remote rural schools need more hands-on help

The Hechinger Report

He first signed up for a college-credit world history class with Mitchell, who is also employed by a nearby community college to teach the course. But Lovejoy, a soft-spoken student with sandy-brown hair, is attending Rice University in Houston this fall on a scholarship. And that’s just what he did.

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

ED Surge

From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history. My wife and I chose Aniefuna because in studying Black history, we learned that our land was never lost.

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‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. Despite high numbers of cases , the parish school board planned for in-person instruction for the 2020-2021 school year: All pre-K through sixth graders in person; seventh through 12th graders on staggered days. Morgan was nervous.

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Kids Don’t Learn What They Aren’t Taught

4QM Teaching

Test scores fell after the year of interrupted schooling in 2020-21, and anyone who was in the classroom during the 2021-22 school year can testify to the fact that students who were not in school the year before missed a lot of learning about positive school habits and behaviors. But that’s a different blog post.

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Unearthing the Origins of Plantation Slavery on São Tomé

Sapiens

THE FOREST-SHROUDED ESTATE On an island 300 kilometers west of mainland Africa, in 2020, our small team began down a barely visible path flanked by shoulder-high, shimmering capim grass. São Tomé’s role in this devastating and transformational history is largely unknown—some people have never heard of the tiny nation.

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OPINION: Yes, Virginia, there is a national implication, and education equity is at its heart

The Hechinger Report

It also means schools doing more to emphasize the importance of values like curiosity and empathy, and offering lessons that provide “mirrors and windows” for all students to see and understand the many contributions to world history and cultures of those like themselves, and those different from themselves.

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Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies?

The Hechinger Report

” The day before the 2020 election, he created a commission that produced “ The 1776 Report ,” a counterpoint to “The 1619 Project.” At this point, I’m going to be very hesitant,” said Catherine Mein, an Iowa world history teacher. “At At the end of the day, this is my job, it pays the bills.