Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year So many times we hear that teachers are superheroes, and I really want to disagree with that, because I'm not a superhero. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig. I'm a human being.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The three-week program took teachers from across the country on a study tour of Philadelphia, Gettysburg, and Washington, DC, discussing with leading scholars three eras in history—the Founding, the Civil War, and the mid-twentieth century Civil Rights movement—all of which tested Americans’ commitment to their principles of liberty and equality.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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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. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” In Carson v.

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” In October 2022, we realized that funds in our TPS grant would enable us to offer an additional colloquium in the spring of 2023.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A widely-published writer, he’s the author, co-author, or editor of four music history books and many essays and articles. On Black Music, Pasts and Present (2022) is his latest book. The post The History of Black Music — A Love Supreme appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Ramsey, Jr. Who Hears Here?

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 24, 2024

Jarvis Givens is a professor of education and faculty affiliate in the department of African & African American studies at Harvard University. As an interdisciplinary scholar, he specializes in 19th and 20th century African American history, history of education, and theories of race and power in education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022 as part of the Voices of Change project, EdSurge Research convened 80 Asian American K-12 educators in a series of virtual learning circles to listen to their stories. Many also found community online, by following Asian American educators publicly sharing their learnings and resources (e.g.,

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. Faculty member Dan Monroe at a One-Day seminar in Spring 2022 Although One-Days are designed to fit around a teacher’s busy schedule, it is important to spend some time preparing for the day.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Oregon joined this list, beginning with the 2022-23 school year, when then-Gov.

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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I thought about how interesting it would be for students to investigate how their school fits into the story of the United States, and I started to wonder how inquiry could help my students explore their community’s histories. Community history is a natural avenue for inquiry. oral histories). oral histories).

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

His new book, “Surrounding Fort Knox, Including Southern Indiana,” showcases Van Stockum’s journey through the counties around Southern Indiana and Fort Knox and details the area’s rich natural and cultural history. If there are any places where a map doesn’t show the road very well, that’s where I’m going,” Van Stockum said.

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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

THE DRIVE FOR PROGRESS In American history early colonists’ and settlers’ desire and drive for progress was necessitated by the need to organize ways to survive, and fed by the opportunity to use the new territory that they took and occupied.

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Strange Maps

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In 2022, Wyoming had a population of just over 581,000, ranking dead last among all states. For most of American history, Wyoming was a not a destination in itself, but just so much more ground to cover on the long trek to more promising lands further west. Also, that rectangle is vast and empty. Wyomingians per square mile (2.3

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. The post ‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III appeared first on The Hechinger Report. The students are adjusting. You can certainly see the growth that’s happening.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. What Does Research Tell Us About Asian American Educators’ Experiences? ii] Kim and Hsieh describe the following “polarizing binaries of Asian American representation”: yellow peril perpetual foreigner model minority Erika Lee, Ph.D.,

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. After sending the essay to the Chronicles of Oklahoma in late 2022, she forgot about it. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!” Czarnecki says.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2023

The women’s college received 13,614 applications for the fall of 2022 – a 48 percent increase over the 9,179 who applied in fall of 2019, according to a spokesperson for the college. Application figures suggest increased interest in Spelman over the past few years.

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Facing Today

JUNE 17, 2022

“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers” (1963) Over the last year, we have seen an explosion of debate within the public sphere about how to teach young people about the past.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

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.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

Johnson is a tenured Instructor in Political Science, History, and Geography at Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead, MN. He has served APSA as Chair of the TLC Program Committee (2015), and as co-Editor of the Journal of Political Science Education (2016-2022). He holds a Ph.D. She holds a B.A.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. 25, 2022, in Orlando, Fla.

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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. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. For Europeans, World War I was devastating.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

What we heard was that January 2022 proved to be one of the most challenging months of the pandemic yet in many school districts as they were forced to close schools that could not operate safely due to stunningly high staff absence rates. Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And in one IB history class, she said a teacher had students pick cotton seeds off cotton plants to demonstrate the efficiency of the cotton gin, in an attempt to include multiple perspectives in his class. Samuels/The Hechinger Report Virginia’s rewrite of its history curriculum started off with heat and discord. Credit: Christina A.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The administrator had been working to hire more staff with $4,000 Giggles & Wiggles had been receiving monthly since 2022. Combined with a tuition increase, the funds helped raise wages by $2 to about $14 an hour on average in the fall of 2022, but it still wasn’t nearly enough to attract job candidates to the center.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

A 2022 Georgia “Parents’ Bill of Rights” requires that schools provide parents access to classroom and assigned materials within three days of a request. The Idaho curriculum law, embraced by the state’s conservative legislature, went into effect in July 2022. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The law was paused indefinitely after the 2022 survey. Those removed from the general education roster include courses on the Holocaust, African American history, womens studies and religion (particularly Eastern religions). Such bias is often attributed to the humanities.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Its “ 1776 Curriculum ” for grades K-12 has been criticized for revisionist history, including whitewashed accounts of US slavery and depictions of Jamestown as a failed communist colony. As of early 2022, it had the highest number of January 6 arrestees of any locality, according to local media.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2024

Lori Chavez-DeRemer, said the idea came out of roundtables with small business owners conducted in 2022. In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, more women exited the labor force than men, a phenomenon that had never occurred in American history. Part of the reason was that child care options disappeared.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

His campaign website says he plans to reverse any gender-affirming care policies implemented by President Joe Biden, who signed an executive order in 2022 encouraging the Departments of Education and of Health and Human Services to expand access to health care and gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ students. The outcome of Kennedy v.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

In a speech to the American Federation of Teachers , Harris decried the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” laws passed by Florida and other states in recent years. 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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