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

Teaching American History

Amy Livingston, Chancellor High School, Fredericksburg, VA. Grade school had bewildered her. School administrators and teachers never picked up on Livingston’s hearing problem, and she remained in special ed until she graduated from high school. She never expected to teach at all. This was December.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

Jenna Saykhamphone, a senior at Annandale High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, helped start an equity team at her high school to fight stereotypes both inside and outside her school in suburban Washington, D.C. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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