The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Oregon Public Broadcasting Hall — who graduated in 2021 with a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Oregon — is the language coordinator for the Coquille Indian Tribe. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. That’s because the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

The anti-CRT efforts to restrict how race is taught have clashed with initiatives in several states, including South Dakota, Oklahoma and New Mexico, to teach Native American history — which has often been left out of instruction — more accurately and fully. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

We need such discussion if, as Federalist 1 puts it, we want a government based on reflection and choice rather than accident and force.” He began looking for primary sources to flesh out the story of history, which led him to TAH.org and to its Master’s program centered around reading and discussing documents.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

He succeeded African Americans Ralph Bunche and Lucius Barker as president. and Grace Doherty Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs was marked by his contributions to political theory, public administration, and race and politics. He served as an endowed chair at the University of Virginia. UIS professor Matthew Holden, Jr.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 25, 2024

On this date (June 25 th ) in 1929, President Herbert Hoover signed the Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928, authorizing construction by the federal government of a gigantic dam on the Colorado River, just west of the Grand Canyon. Blackstone Publishing, 2021. David Owen, Where the Water Goes : Life and Death Along the Colorado River.

American History 98

American History Library Government History 98

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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.

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Archiving American History Library History 91

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Government is kind of leading from the rear here. It returned to full-time, in-person school for all students — with mandatory masking — for the 2021-22 school year. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. Resiliency.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. The district has been operating fully in person with masks optional since the end of the 2020-2021 school year. In the second year, you get a lot of time to do the governing. The students are adjusting. Of the $162.9

Oral History 114

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. 6 has been the notion that it was unprecedented and out of keeping with American values and the American experience. Such sentiments surely reflect opinions held by a wide swath of the American population. Moreover, many Americans see the Capitol itself as a sacred space.

American History 145

American History History Government High School 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. My coping mechanism to respond to some of the uncertainty in the larger system is appealing to government or quasi government agencies as well as personal physicians that can help me just know that I’m doing the right thing.

Oral History 113

Oral History History High School Public School 113

Students of History

JANUARY 6, 2022

The insurrection of January 6th, 2021 is something that will be taught in US History classrooms as long as American History is a part of high school. ” This must be discussed as part of your US History or American Government course.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In 2021, a Bucks County venture capitalist and longtime Republican funder concerned about COVID closures donated half a million dollars to school board races around the state. Also in 2021 came Pennridge’s first serious battles over diversity programs. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2021

Like so many of us, they believed the promise that 2021 was going to be a better year. In my view, this was an “insurrection,” a violent uprising against a government. In 1963, James Baldwin wrote, “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”

American History 131

American History Human Rights History Government 131

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Samantha Palu, a high school government teacher in South Dakota, came to school on Jan. 7, 2021, armed with a plan to talk to all of her classes about the attack on the U.S. government and African American history in Hamilton, Ohio. government and African American history in right-leaning Hamilton, Ohio.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

and African American history. Related: OPINION — The wrong roadmap for teaching American history. Kendi in a notice proposing that the chief federal grant program for history and civics education give priority to projects that incorporate diverse perspectives into teaching. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

Social Studies 121

Social Studies Civics History American History 121

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Department of Educations announcement led to immediate pushback from the South Carolinians fighting to give students access to inclusive instructional materials to the freedom-of-expression advocates at organizations such as PEN America and the American Library Association (ALA).

Library 60

Library Education K-12 History 60

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Trump’s 2021 budget proposal called for eliminating the federal Preschool Development Grant program and decreased funding for a federal program that helps low-income college students pay for child care. The Biden administration rescinded the commission, but Trump has pledged to reinstate it if reelected.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Pre-K In 2021, the Biden administration proposed a universal preschool program as part of a multi-trillion-dollar social spending plan called Build Back Better. Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s.

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