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NCHE Partners with the Library of Congress

NCHE

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). These regional grants will help fund projects that expand and explore innovative methods of teaching and learning with Library of Congress materials.

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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten 

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The post One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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How Teacher Prep Programs Are Stepping Up Efforts to Recruit Students

ED Surge

Department of Education launched an unusual marketing blitz. It includes a TV ad that encourages people to go into teaching, especially to promote more diversity in the teaching profession. Teaching is a journey that shapes lives. Are you ready?” We tackle those questions on this week’s EdSurge Podcast.

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A shocking number of young people can’t separate fact from fiction online

The Hechinger Report

For example, when presented with a tweet made from a liberal advocacy group, half of the students judged the tweet without bothering to click the link to read the source of information presented to advance the advocacy group’s claim. The research also asked students to judge the voracity of claims made on social media.

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America’s Teachers Aren’t Burned Out. We Are Demoralized.

ED Surge

As educators, we would tell our students they could become anything, while simultaneously teaching them in a school building that had no soap in the bathrooms, broken computers and a nurse for half a day, only on Fridays. Every day, as a 40-year-old, I struggle with these losses and imagine what it’s like for the 14-year-olds I teach.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The Right has declared war on teaching the truth about structural racism and sexism and on LGBTQ+ youth. This is a national call. The group can be any size.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. The educator-led events received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. Attend meetings, vote, run for office. Sign up today.