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NCHE Partners with the Library of Congress

NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). NCHE is currently accepting Notices of Intent to apply for funding, and anticipates granting all funds by May 2025, for projects that will end no later than May 2026.

Library

Library Primary Sources Museum Historic Sites

Rev Up Your AmRev Curriculum

NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Want to connect with fellow classroom teachers and museum educators? Looking for advice on how to navigate teaching inclusive history during this time of divisive rhetoric? Sessions will be led by dynamic classroom teachers and museum educators.

Museum Education

Museum Education Museum K-12 American History

Prentiss Charney Fellows 2024–2026

Zinn Education Project

JULY 30, 2024

We are thrilled to announce our second class of Zinn Education Project Prentiss Charney fellows for the 2024–2026 school years. The fellowship offers support for a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together for two years. The goal: to enforce an unjust, unsafe status quo.

History Education

History Education History Teaching Education

College Uncovered: Tag, You’re In!

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

With declining birth rates and growing skepticism about the value of a degree, higher education is facing an enrollment cliff, set to hit hard in 2026. In this season, we’re standing on the precipice of the demographic cliff and exploring the changing higher education landscape. Kirk] Some quick history.

Archiving

Archiving High School Leadership Economics

OPINION: Banning legacy admissions will deliver another blow to the children of Black alumni

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

The federal Department of Education is investigating whether legacy preferences at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania constitute civil rights violations, and Yale president Peter Salovey said during a panel discussion last October that officials are deliberating the future of legacy admissions there.

History

History Education

Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Each year, the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

Teaching

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Library

Rebuilding the Transatlantic exchange on Learning & Teaching: The Active Learning in Political Science (ALPS) Blog Receives the 2024 APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award

Political Science Now

AUGUST 23, 2024

A growing set of teaching resources is posted there, often with very frank observations about whether an educator’s tool was effective or not. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. The blog reflects an inclusive approach to voices and communities, focusing on empowering early career academics. Air Force Academy.

Political Science

Political Science Pedagogy Teaching Civic Engagement

It used to be a notoriously violent prison. Now it’s home to a first-of-its kind education program

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The Hechinger Report California has been a leader in prison education programs, starting with a 2014 rule authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated. Offering prison education programs is key to community safety.” I’m trying,” she tells them.

Education

Education Leadership Government Teaching

OPINION: A better democracy starts in our schools

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Over the last few decades, our education system has consistently prioritized educating for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills. The United States spends $54 per student on those subjects, but only 5 cents per student on civics education. Or do we continue to be a country divided by race, education and class?

Civics

Civics Economics History Government

College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Instead, they’re working, socializing or partying and, as a result, show limited gains in critical thinking — the hallmark of American higher education. Between us, we’ve been covering higher education for years. And that has consequences for how much they learn in higher education. I’m Kirk Carapezza with GBH.

Humanities

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures

A smaller Nation’s Report Card

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2025

As Education Secretary Linda McMahon was busy dismantling her cabinet department, she vowed to preserve one thing: the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nations Report Card. Also cut were fourth grade science in 2028, 12th grade science in 2032 and 12th grade history in 2030.

Government

Government High School History Leadership

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

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Raised by educators in this tribal village at the base of the Grand Canyon, she started kindergarten a little ahead of her peers. Siyuja, now 22, wiped tears from her face as she sat alongside her mother and grandmother the educators of the family one afternoon last year in the Havasupai Tribal Council chambers. SUPAI, Ariz.

Education

Education Elementary School Government K-12

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

ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2025

As Head Start leaders wait for the White House to release its fiscal year 2026 budget, which is reported to include a proposal for the outright elimination of Head Start, rural providers reckon with the resulting consequences their communities will endure. But its worth noting the original planning committee did have a vision.

Government

Government Heritage K-12 History

NAEP, the Nation’s Report Card, was supposed to be safe. It’s not

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2025

But both sides have long backed the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which is also called the Nations Report Card. Its a very delicate instrument, said conservative education commentator Chester Finn, who formerly chaired the governing board that oversees the assessment. Risky things are happening.

Government

Government Civics Research History

What education could look like under Harris and Walz

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Education vaulted to the forefront of conversations about the presidential race when Democratic nominee Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate. He has championed investments in public education: For example, in March 2023, he signed a bill to make school meals free to all students in public schools. Harris, a former U.S.

K-12

K-12 Education Public School History

Social Studies Network

NCHE Partners with the Library of Congress

Rev Up Your AmRev Curriculum

Trending Sources

Prentiss Charney Fellows 2024–2026

College Uncovered: Tag, You’re In!

OPINION: Banning legacy admissions will deliver another blow to the children of Black alumni

Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Rebuilding the Transatlantic exchange on Learning & Teaching: The Active Learning in Political Science (ALPS) Blog Receives the 2024 APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award

It used to be a notoriously violent prison. Now it’s home to a first-of-its kind education program

OPINION: A better democracy starts in our schools

College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

A smaller Nation’s Report Card

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

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

NAEP, the Nation’s Report Card, was supposed to be safe. It’s not

What education could look like under Harris and Walz

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