Teaching American History

MAY 28, 2024

Naturalist John Muir, whose popular magazine articles had done much to bring about the 1890 Congressional act creating Yosemite National Park , was unanimously named president of the new organization. Johnson began urging Muir to write a series of articles for the Century that would persuade Congress to designate the area as a national park.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. My intent as an UGRR participant was to stretch my local history knowledge and to sharpen my historical-geographical thinking skills.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

million words to Wikipedia, worked on over 4,200 different entries, and created 531 entirely new articles in a range of topics related to Political Science. In a course on African Politics , students created new articles on Voting rights in Nigeria as well as Child soldiers in Uganda.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin. Marie Vander Kloet just published an excellent article on those in equity roles that do academic development or faculty development work. You should take it; it is a good reflective tool to identify levels of privilege.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2016

Therefore, any idea that not liking reform is somehow a refutation of black educators in charter schools is a terrible interpretation in the face of history. The Boston Globe recently published the article, “Donors Behind Charter Push Keep to the Shadows.” They aren’t saying change isn’t needed. The report found: “A new $2.3

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MPSA

JUNE 11, 2021

Despite its millions of articles, Wikipedia still consists of glaring content gaps. They greatly expanded the article on the Tunesian National Dialogue Quartet , a group of four civil society organizations that sought to strengthen and solidify that country’s democratic processes following their Jasmine Revolution of 2011.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

The work in that preparatory meeting was to take all the little pieces—the subtle and not-so-subtle nuances, the histories, even the apparent gaps—of an applicant’s self-narration of their life and help shape it into terms intelligible for the limited allowances of asylum law.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018. Later on, Ta opened an email from their school that mentioned the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a state-level group that was started in 2012 to bring students into the advocacy process.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Liebell’s scholarship lies at the intersection of history, politics, law, and philosophy – areas that have sharpened her keen eye for identifying gaps in the information available to the public. “I As part of our [Wiki Scholars] class, we looked at the number of people who read articles,” said Liebell.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

However, the thefts continued after the woman identified as the culprit left the sorority, and she would later recant her confession, attributing her suspicious physiological reactions during the test to a repressed history of sexual abuse. In later life, Larson would turn against his invention, calling it a “ Frankenstein’s monster.”

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. Independence or Catastrophe?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. If we don’t make the most of this chance,” he said, “we’re not going to get another one.” “It Then there was the curriculum.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

They supported—and used—Truth in their advocacy. In 1863, when she profiled Truth for the New York Independent , Gage probably needed the commission her article earned. ” The post The Many Lives of Sojourner Truth appeared first on Teaching American History.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

This article was originally published by The Markup , a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. Securly is one of the most popular web filters, used in more than 20,000 schools, and its “sexual content” category covers “websites about sexual health and LGBTQ+ advocacy websites.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Parents described how their children couldnt tell the difference between North and South America and, despite BIE regulations requiring Native culture in all curriculum areas, the students never had a class in Havasupai culture, history or language.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. There is a linguistic limit, though; the journal only runs articles in English. and elsewhere.

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