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.” I watch them spread their wings.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

Those programs primarily cater to individuals who lack expertise and experience in working with young children and want to upskill quickly, qualifying them for more senior and better-paying classroom teaching roles. So we really wanted to build a wealth of training to support directors or any administrator in that role.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

Ninety percent of schools have increased the number of substitute teachers on staff or are trying to, according to a July 2022 RAND report, but schools are struggling to find new hires, feeding into an overall perception of shortages. The teaching profession, according to CNN in early 2022, was “in crisis.” And on Aug.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Teaching the different forms of government seems easy enough – go over some definitions and provide examples, then quiz your students. Below is my dig-deeper lesson sequence for teaching the different types of government in my on-level Civics class. What are the Main Types of Government?

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 13, 2024

We were sad to learn last week that Mike Bisenius , a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program, has passed away after a brief, intense illness. Written in his own words, it shows his thoughtful, resourceful approach to teaching. Mike was a highly dedicated teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In high poverty schools, where student test scores are often low and there is pressure from state and local governments to raise them, data analysis can dominate weekly or monthly meetings among teachers. It’s a huge industry and there are major sales to schools,” said Hill in an interview afterward.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

State, Local, Tribal and Territorial (SLTT) government entities, with K-12 organizations representing the largest and fastest-growing segment. Over the past 20 years, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) has been committed to its mission of fostering collaboration and information sharing across 16,000 U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

So when Parks learned during a conference for student-government leaders about a program that teaches young adults to offer mental health support to their peers, she thought it would work well at Marshall—and even beyond, at colleges throughout West Virginia. The Bandana Project started at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

As advocates for music and arts education, we see an opportunity to continue to hold school and government leaders accountable, and to lock in investment in music and the arts as we build healthy, resilient communities. We need to keep our voices strong at this moment. students do not have access to music in their schools.

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ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

In 2022, only about 270,000 families (about 1.6 government invests in home visiting programs, and funding is set to expand. Then, in 2010, the federal government invested in home visiting programs for the first time with the creation of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting ( MIECHV ) program. “It

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. Being equipped as citizens goes beyond our ability to name the three branches of government or the history of political parties.

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ED Surge

MAY 29, 2024

It was during a trip to the grocery store in 2022 with her two young kids that somebody told Valencia about the home visiting program. Yet in 2022, only about 270,000 did. Beginning this year , the federal government will match $3 for every $1 in non-federal funds spent on home visiting programs, up to a certain amount.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Does a sixth-grade teacher have the same skills and tools to teach reading that a second or third grade teacher does? This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. I doubt that’s the case.”

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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. To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning. Timothy Walker is an American teacher, educational consultant, and the author of “ Teach Like Finland.”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

According to the June 2022 Learning Heroes survey Hidden in Plain Sight , more than 89 percent of parents believe that it is essential for families and teachers to work together to help overcome the pandemic’s impact on learning. Survey results are analyzed in the companion State of the Sector Report , released in the fall.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 30, 2024

States invested well over $10 billion in pre-K programs in 2022-23, and the federal government invested $11 billion in Head Start. Most preschool programs rely on curricula that do not match the current science of early learning and teaching. Close to half of all four-year-olds in the U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

These often have consequences in education, from an increase in cheating on assignments enabled by prose-spewing chatbots, to experiments that bring AI into classrooms as teaching assistants or even as students. In late 2022, the White House released a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” hoping that it would strengthen privacy rights.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Chris Nelson teaches preschool in rural Vermont, just a few miles from the Canadian border, but not in the school or child care center most people think of when they imagine state or locally funded pre-K. This story was originally published by The Daily Yonder.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Come Down The pandemic’s forced switch to remote instruction unlocked federal funding for K-12 schools, as the government made a temporary $190 billion jab available in the hopes that it would inoculate against the effects of COVID-19 on teaching and learning. Still, the district won’t be unaffected, Langford says.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. She also helped to create, implement, and now teaches in the Bachelors of Applied Science in Sustainable Practices degree at Cascadia.

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Doing Social Studies

JANUARY 27, 2022

This network of professionals has helped transform my teaching practice and feeds my teacher soul. As a member and current president of the Kansas Council for Social Studies, the working relationship between the professional Social Studies organizations in Kansas is one that I deeply cherish and am proud to be a part of. just a reminder.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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APSA Educate

DECEMBER 11, 2023

August 9, 2022 | Preparing Teaching Materials for the Job Market Sondra Richards (Professor of Government, Department Chair of Government, Criminal Justice, and Paralegal programs) discusses the key components of a teaching portfolio, its role in your job market application, … The post Pedagogy Workshop: Preparing Teaching Materials for the Job (..)

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society. They choose to be part of an intentional community that values the arts.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last year, I had the privilege of learning and leading as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a CCSSO National Finalist. Teachers of Color After student teaching on the US continent in a high school, I felt so isolated as the only Asian adult on campus. As I traveled across the nation, teachers shared their stories with me.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

A 2022 UCLA-MIT Press study found that higher education struggles to capture and leverage data for impact. While progress has been made in building open architectures and pipelines like LDRA, theres still much work ahead: Fostering Trust: Faculty need assurance that analytics are meant to support not judge their teaching practices.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. Lindblom based it on a summer seminar she attended in the early 2000s: the Presidential Academy, a forerunner of Teaching American History’s current programs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2023

Marraccini, an associate professor of school psychology at UNC’s School of Education Now, as the rate of young people experiencing mental health distress climbs, with in-patient mental health hospitalizations rising by more than 120 percent between 2016 and 2022 according to one measure, the need for school support programs has grown.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Researchers painstakingly pieced together data from a swath of government sources and news reports, cataloging more recent data from the 2021-22 school year for some states but having to reach as far back as 2014-15 for others. For 13 states, their search yielded no data about teacher vacancies.

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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.” This was the theme of the most recent cases the teachers read.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. And we hadn't even begun focusing on teaching and learning, it was just repairing relationships.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

At school you teach and support students. The typical teacher works a median of 54 hours a week, according to a nationally representative survey from 2022 administered by the EdWeek Research Center. I love teaching, but if things do not change, I will be looking for another job. At school you teach and support students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Between them, they earned too much to qualify for government help. “I Banner / The Seattle Times The dilemma is common in the United States, where high-quality child care programs are prohibitively expensive, government assistance is limited, and daycare openings are sometimes hard to find at all. The decision was wrenching.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2018

Employers in the United States, and countries worldwide, face a critical shortage of professionals trained in protecting corporate and government computer networks and systems from cyberattack. million cybersecurity professionals by 2022. “At million cybersecurity professionals by 2022. will grow 28 percent by 2026.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction on cleansing one’s hands. Wall signs and foot markers materialized in a thrice. A barrage of how-to videos were posted on websites the world over.

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