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Rev Up Your AmRev Curriculum

NCHE

Following up on last year’s successful RevEd Teacher’s Summit, we welcome participants to this year’s two-day summit as part of the For 2026: Contested Freedoms conference organized by the Omohundro Institute, William & Mary, and The Colonial Williamsburg.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

Education Department is finally set to go into effect in 2026. Jon: Sarah Igo chairs the American History Department at Vanderbilt and is an intellectual historian. Sarah Igo: What that means is I study the history of ideas rather than, say, public policy or economic development or wars or that kind of thing.

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Politics, Pressure and Poor Sources: History Teachers Have It Tough These Days

ED Surge

With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects. We have trained students to see these sites put out by the federal government as really reliable narrators to American history.

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What education could look like under Harris and Walz

The Hechinger Report

Walz also was behind Minnesota’s child tax credit increase in 2023, and successfully pushed forward a statewide paid family and medical leave law that takes effect in 2026. — Harris provided the tie-breaking Senate vote that temporarily increased the child tax credit during the pandemic and has proposed making that tax credit permanent.

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