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5 Top Trends for Teaching Social Studies in 2023

Students of History

It's the year 2023, and teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. One way to do this is to incorporate a variety of primary sources into lessons, including documents and speeches from underrepresented groups. If you have been in the classroom the past few years, you know just how rough it has been.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

You can’t skip the slavery unit, or you can’t think to skip Harriet Jacobs’ primary source of her narratives of a slave girl, where she’s talking about being sexually harassed by slaveholder,” she said. The historical site, about 12 miles away from Norfolk, is a popular field trip destination.

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