ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Meanwhile, almost 40 percent of the American public still contest the results of a free and fair election, and with the 2024 federal election around the corner, political polarization in the United States seems neverending, leaving democracy in an arguably fragile state. To reach every student in the U.S.,

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the next few days, those who have completed all coursework for the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program may begin writing their qualifying exams, so as to graduate with their degrees this December. The post MAHG Qualifying Exam Tips – Fall 2024 appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The application will be open September 9-29, 2024. TAH Teachers at a Multi Day Seminar in Angel Island, CA in August 2024. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers.

Historic Sites 52

Historic Sites Museum American History Professional Development 52

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He passed away suddenly on September 5, 2024. His scholarship focused on the study of government, politics, and political actors, with an emphasis on their origins, foundations, and interactions with groups and individuals. Governance Reform Project, collaborating with researchers from several Los Angeles universities.

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Political Science Social Justice Leadership American History 41

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

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.

History Education 52

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

He has contributed to many college-wide projects, including rewriting the colleges academic dishonesty policy, and has served in faculty governance as Chair of the Del Mar Faculty Council. Johnson is a tenured Instructor in Political Science, History, and Geography at Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead, MN.

Political Science 64

Political Science Geography Sociology Professional Development 64

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

That money came through a federal program that pumped $24 billion in grants to child care centers across the country to keep them running during the pandemic — part of the single largest investment in child care in American history. It’ll just be more like quicksand than a sudden drop-off.

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K-12 Advocacy American History Library 123

Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” Visited on-site June 2024. Malik Ali, a James Madison Fellow and 2017 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, is Tukman Distinguished Teacher of History at the Branson School in Ross, California.

American History 98

American History Archiving History Museum 98

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. We live in a time right now, in 2024, where things don’t have to make sense.

Primary Sources 98

Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

Diane Ravitch

JULY 4, 2024

In my school days, we learned only the positive spin on American history. As a college student and a graduate student and an adult, I learned about the dark side of our nation’s history. My mother was an immigrant from Bessarabia who would not tolerate a bad word against the country that took in her family.

American History 123

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The prior year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to combat offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating and the teaching of divisive concepts related to racism and sexism in the federal workforce or armed forces.

Library 60

Library Education K-12 History 60

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

On January 8, 2024, historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad joined educators Jesse Hagopian and T. Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. Now none of this makes sense.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

According to his 2024 campaign website, if reelected, Trump would “completely overhaul federal standards on school discipline to get out-of-control troublemakers OUT of the classroom and INTO reform schools and corrections facilities.” Trump’s 2024 platform advocates undercutting some of the protections teachers unions support.

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K-12 Education Private School Charter School 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Biden administration announced significant rule changes to Title IX in 2024 that undid some of the changes the Trump administration made, including removing a mandate for colleges to have live hearings and cross-examinations when investigating sexual assaults on campus.

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