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Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook

Zinn Education Project

This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. But We Can’t Teach? Source: Alamy.In The Brown v.

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College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out

The Hechinger Report

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.

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A school year like no other: The class of 2021 played ‘the hand we were dealt’

The Hechinger Report

And they lived through perhaps the most divisive presidential battle in American history, culminating in rioters storming the Capitol in Washington, D.C. million teenagers were set to graduate from high school in spring 2021. That’s the entity that we would be better off without,” Jaden said in January 2021. Jaden Huynh.

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Do These Disappearing, 100-Year-Old Schools Hold a Vital Lesson for American Education?

ED Surge

His book, released in 2021, is currently the basis of a traveling exhibition. I have come out of this work with appreciation for the role that education has played throughout the sweep of American history. These days, race and educational opportunity still seem troublingly linked.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. It returned to full-time, in-person school for all students — with mandatory masking — for the 2021-22 school year. The requirements listed below relate to whether masks are required in school buildings. metro area.

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

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. Fourth graders got to have their traditional field day. The students are adjusting. Of the $162.9

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WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 2.

Teaching American History

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. appeared first on Teaching American History.