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The Future of Democracy Depends on a Quality Civics Education

ED Surge

Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. 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.

Civics 131
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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

Related: The (mostly) Republican moms fighting to reclaim their Idaho school district from conservatives A Hillsdale employee until early 2023, Adams worked on its charter program and to promote the college’s 1776 Curriculum. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.