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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

He told her about the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University. Because of her husband’s latest career move, she is now teaching 11 th grade US history and 12 th grade government at Chancellor High School in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Now she wondered how to earn a teaching credential.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

Saykhamphone, who has Laotian and Nigerian ancestry, said there are not many other Black or Hispanic students in her accelerated International Baccalaureate (IB) classes, even though 85 percent of the student body is Black, Hispanic or Asian. “I Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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