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Social Studies Soundtracks: Using Music to Teach Social Studies

Studies Weekly

Social Studies Soundtracks: Using Music to Teach Social Studies May 2, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER At first glance, social studies and music might seem like two separate subjects, but they can come together harmoniously to make learning more engaging and memorable. Have them present it like a campaign rally!

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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

The Hechinger Report

To make Ohio an attractive option for businesses and jobs, the state is pushing for 1 million more adults to get a certificate or degree by 2025. Turner attended Ashtabula’s high school, Lakeside High, where almost every student is economically disadvantaged. Gonzalez, whose parents are Mexican immigrants, speaks Spanish.

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National Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call Highlights

Zinn Education Project

It is important to understand] the concept of how you suppress people to exploit them economically. These same funders of over a hundred partners are behind Project 2025, a 900-page, conservative extremist mandate to roll back civil rights at all levels of Federal government. Why should we all be alarmed?

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Teaching Irish American History

Studies Weekly

10, 2025 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER You only need to walk into a store and see St Patricks Day decorations to know Irish Americans have profoundly impacted our countrys culture. Most of these immigrants traveled from Ulster a province in northern Ireland to escape religious persecution and economic hardship.

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OPINION: Latinos find the deck stacked against them in this state

The Hechinger Report

The state faces a looming deficit of more than two million individuals with degrees or credentials by 2025. Higher education has always been regarded as both a vaccine against and an antidote to social and economic stagnation — and this is true more than ever as increasing numbers of jobs require college degrees.

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Head Start’s Future Is Uncertain. Rural Americans Aren’t Ready for What Happens Next.

ED Surge

The program, which turned 60 this year, was earmarked for elimination in Project 2025 the governing playbook by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation that is guiding the current administrations cost-cutting policies. There are families that ask, Are you closing? or Should I be worried?

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

The agency oversees law and justice across Indian Country, as well as agriculture, infrastructure, economic development and tribal governance. Tourism provides an economic bedrock for the Havasupai economy, though many families rely on government assistance. Vides, the teacher, struggled with his decision to quit. public schools.

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