Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. decided in 2021, upheld a student’s right to free speech outside of school hours and off of the school campus.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. Dancer at Juneteenth celebration in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carol M. But We Can’t Teach? This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Consider the NHRC’s use of the phrase “licit and illicit” in principle 1. Princeton University Press. Watters, A. Teaching Machines.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

States do not report this information to the federal government. In most cases, we received data from 2017-18 to 2021-22. In the case of Vermont, however, we did not have data for 2021-22 and in North Carolina, we had data only for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. In fact, some states don’t even collect it from their districts.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. OAKLAND, Calif. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

We can do this by taking field trips to local museums and historical sites, inviting experts into our classrooms, participating in programs like Empatico that connect students worldwide, creating robust class libraries and using content-rich curriculums across subject areas to build student knowledge. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then. Each student represents money from the city, state and federal governments. Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. After that, Kailani stopped attending math.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

This computing device return-and-repair ritual looks different from the end-of-year textbook and library book return that was a staple of decades past. Well over 90 percent of surveyed students reported that they had access to a school-issued device in the fall of 2021. But it’s increasingly common. There are early signs of progress.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

These past few months I have been working with educators whose Rainbow Library books have been seized by administrators. These same funders of over a hundred partners are behind Project 2025, a 900-page, conservative extremist mandate to roll back civil rights at all levels of Federal government. Why should we all be alarmed?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School inhabits a single-story brick building with a “little free library” in the front yard and a “discovery garden” in the back. A proposed ban on corporal punishment at the federal level, introduced in both chambers of Congress in 2021, highlights it as a strategy for making paddling obsolete.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

To the surprise of many students and parents, public colleges in every state in the country except Louisiana use for-profit debt collection agencies to retrieve overdue tuition, library fees and even parking fines. If tuition were affordable, they say, students wouldn’t be stuck in the vise of debt collection agencies in the first place.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

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Teaching American History

APRIL 30, 2024

This blog post, written by faculty member Sarah Morgan Smith , was first posted on January 19, 2021. An online resource guide at Library of Congress, U.S. For each president, library staff have collected primary materials illustrating what made his inauguration unique. The Secretary was going on: I must speak or nobody would. “Mr.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. The i-Ready Assessment at Columbus shows improvements in on grade-level reading from the fall of 2021 to the winter of 2022, said Cardenas, the school’s principal.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

2022) and teaches courses on the World Wars and Modern America for the Master of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University. Jennifer Keene at 2021 Summer MAHG Some of the documents you curated for this volume are well-known but perhaps not well understood. 1926) Library of Congress. Held, John, Jr.

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Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Youngstown State University in Ohio, for instance, axed Italian, religious studies and other majors in 2021 , then six more three years later. Holly Buroughs sits in front of the Jackson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Do I leave?” “Is Is it worth it?”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Such awareness has also inspired a surge in federal, state and local governments discussing solutions and infrastructure upgrades. At the state and city level, Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan signed an Executive Directive in June 2021 to create the Michigan High-Speed Internet Office. million Michigan households (31.5

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

During the 2021 legislative session, there were over 50 bills introduced targeting transgender youth participation in sports as well as bans on gender-affirming healthcare. In May 2021, at the peak of the debate over Texas’s HB 25 , calls from the state to the national Transgender Lifeline Crisis Center increased 71.6 State officials.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

By the time school restarted in person here in the spring of 2021, Perry estimated her grandsons had missed out on almost a full year of academic learning due to their lack of reliable broadband access. Families spent the school day in fast-food parking lots, outside libraries or on top of mesas trying to catch a signal.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The federal government has also gotten involved, putting up about $16 billion toward the cause of connecting those across the U.S. 31, 2021, and of those who have, over 90 percent of them already had internet. “It We need state and local governments to step up, and state and local governments are stepping up.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

But Dee said, between fall 2019 and fall 2021, enrollment declined by 2.5 Sent home in March 2020, the youngest children went back part-time in April 2021; for the vast majority of middle and high school students, schools didn’t reopen for 17 months, until August 2021. At the leading edge of this national trend is San Francisco.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Now red-state governors increasingly use the takeovers to undermine the political power of cities, particularly those governed by Black and Hispanic leaders, according to some education experts. “I’ve The school’s 2021-22 accountability score — that C rating — is taped to the building’s glass front door.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In 2021, the Biden Administration established the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program (BEAD) and the Digital Equity Act (DEA) to address the widening digital divide that the Covid pandemic exposed. Bridging this gap is a complex task that demands comprehensive strategies. So, what does all this mean for learners like Maria?

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

and Grace Doherty Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs was marked by his contributions to political theory, public administration, and race and politics. Matthew Holden – Modern Era, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, State of Illinois Matthew Holden Jr.: 653 – 657 The Matthew Holden, Jr.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. What started as a part-time gig for a couple of students in 2021 now keeps her busy six days a week. The federal government funneled millions of dollars into schools up until recently, in hopes of turning the tide of falling scores and keeping students on grade level.

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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. Boulder Dam, between Arizona and Nevada, Sept.

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A 2021 study by scholars at University College London found that university students are more at risk of anxiety and depression than peers who do not attend. Opt for cost-effective alternatives like open-access texts and library resources to alleviate stress and remove barriers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In the COVID-19 Data Dispatch’s “Opening” series , we profiled five school communities that successfully reopened during the 2020-2021 school year. More districts are now working to set up regular testing programs for fall 2021, using fu nding from the American Rescue Pla n , Cogan said. Require masks, and model good masking for kids.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Lindsey Kimery, the coordinator of library services for Metro-Nashville Public Schools, said she has “no hidden agenda other than that reading was my favorite thing.” What I try to convey is that a library is a place for voluntary inquiry.” What I try to convey is that a library is a place for voluntary inquiry.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

They have not been able to borrow books from the library, take field trips or participate in hands-on learning activities. As part of the March 2021 American Rescue Plan, the government is providing $122 billion in funding for pre-K-12 institutions in order to address the many impacts of Covid-19.

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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. 2022) and teaches courses on the World Wars and Modern America for the Master of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

And economists wonder how long the government will be able to support these costs, especially with a new law looming that will limit the amount of money states, or Länder — which operate the universities — can borrow. enrollment tuition-free by 2021 for students from families with incomes of as much as $125,000.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Other recent entries to the index include Amy Tan’s novel about the Chinese-American daughter of an immigrant mother, “The Kitchen God’s Wife” (1991); Terry McMillan’s romance novel “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” (1996); and Ellen Oh’s novel inspired by her mother’s experiences during the Korean War, “Finding Junie Kim” (2021).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Many we selected because they had made headlines for banning library books; others we chose because government records showed they had purchased web filters or because they were mentioned by students interviewed for this article. The Markup requested records from 26 school districts. schools censor the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The number of book bans in schools and libraries nearly tripled during the 2023-24 school year to more than 10,000, across red and blue states, according to a recent PEN America report. In a 2023 Washington Post investigation , researchers analyzed all book challenges filed in the 2021-22 school year across 37 states. Do your homework.

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