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Activist students go to summer camp to learn how to help institute a ‘green new deal’ on their campuses

The Hechinger Report

This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. In his freshman world geography class, he said, students sometimes felt overwhelmed by the climate catastrophe, leaving them depressed and despairing. “It

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

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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Social Studies Strategies for Building Background Knowledge

Social Studies Success

History, Geography, and International Baccalaureate History of the Americas. Kydra Hubbard is an Instructional Coach with over 14 years of experience in social studies education. Kydra has taught a variety of subjects, including U.S.

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Activism in/as Scholarship

All Things Pedagogical

I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.

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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

And it will differ from programs in military studies at colleges around the country, which focus on strategy, military systems and the history of warfare. He said veteran studies is more about the long-term impacts of war than the logistics of arming and deploying forces.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

Students first learn about Mississippi history in fourth grade, and that’s the first time they are supposed to delve deeply into the history of the movement to end racial segregation and discrimination. The Civil Rights Movement is a case history of what it means to be American, and what it means to exercise constitutional rights.”.

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