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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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Teaching the Truth about George Floyd — and Our History

ED Surge

In order to create the systemic changes required to realize racial justice, we must transform ourselves into students and recommit to learning how our shared history influences modern practices. My organization, Facing History and Ourselves, and many others have been doing this necessary work.

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OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools

The Hechinger Report

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions. We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S.

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Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids — and ignites controversy

The Hechinger Report

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten 

The Hechinger Report

New Jersey is set to become the first state in the nation to mandate teaching media literacy to students of all ages as a bill with the requirement heads to Gov. A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. Subscribe today!

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Women’s History Month should have a place for teachers

The Hechinger Report

Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Given that teachers are charged with imparting the contributions of women to their students throughout Women’s History Month, a special place should be reserved during March for the women teachers who go unrecognized. “You They teach children to read, write, and compute.

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A researcher said the evidence on special education inclusion is flawed. Readers weighed in

The Hechinger Report

Ive never seen a properly implemented inclusion model in 22 years of teaching. Special education has such a history of seclusion and separation and segregation that having nuanced arguments is hard. She emailed me. The outcome of inclusion for students with SLD [students with learning disabilities] is frequently less than positive.

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