Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He completed his dissertation, “Black Elected Officials, Leadership Style and the Politics of Race: Los Angeles, 1963-2003,” under the mentorship of the late Dr. Michael Preston, WPSA’s first African American President. Within the American Political Science Association, Dr. Ricks held a number of leadership and committee positions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Sandra Stone, author of the 2004 book “Creating the Multiage Classroom” and a consultant on the topic, believes multiage education could be “more valuable” for older children “given the wider range of growth, both physical and emotional, as they are finding out who they are.”. Related: High school should be more like preschool.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Our fathers, along with other leaders in our church, had attended a meeting in neighboring Mecklenburg County at which the Reverend Martin Luther King and other members of the Southern Christian Leadership Council spoke. Ellen Tucker, a longtime blog contributor for Teaching American History. The post Implementing Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

At the meeting, reading a prepared speech from her cell phone, Saykhamphone shared the cotton gin story and told board members that “for me to truly appreciate American history and my Black and Asian history, standards should not be watered down.” Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The first photo shows a young black woman walking with school books cradled in her left arm. To answer these questions, we must look beyond the photographs and focus on a singular figure in the story of the Little Rock Nine, an African American woman named Daisy Bates. New York: Pocket Books, 1994. Kluger, Richard.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

In Henrico County Public Schools, near Richmond, Virginia, the district is building new libraries and stocking them with books whose characters reflect the demographics of the student body. Tapping into students’ cultures in the curriculum fits, logically, into efforts to personalize learning.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2023

In 2023, we: Produced the first-ever Climate Crisis Timeline and a critique of how textbooks lie about Reconstruction Provided resources and advocated for the need to teach about Palestine and Israel through the lens of history Developed and updated lessons on Reconstruction, environmental justice, and labor Organized a national day of action to protest (..)

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We’re ready to have a really difficult year in the books,” said Eric Gordon, who leads the high-poverty Cleveland Metropolitan School District. The Philadelphia school district is among many nationwide facing a leadership change. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Whitaker to discuss his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. You write about how that census was then used in the 1890s by the statistician Frederick Hoffman in his book, Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro. And she publishes a book called Southern Horrors.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

First, strengthen history curricula at the state level, which — for better or for worse — is where the authority rests to control curriculum. We know that, with the right leadership, states can get high-quality, well-sequenced textbooks and other curriculum materials adopted in their public schools. citizenship exam.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

That year, books by two Black women authors were removed from the ninth-grade English curriculum, and one unit of English instruction, “Dreams and Oppressions,” was changed to remove the word oppressions from its title, reframing the course to focus on personal obstacles rather than systemic discrimination.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 22, 2025

Finally participants were able to share refreshments and food together and exchange banned books by authors that write about everything above and more. Participants were encouraged to bring used books for a banned books swap. More More Teach Truth Day of Action events have included a history walking tour.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. Most Americans were appalled. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 1, 2025

Despite the fact that President Biden and congressional Democrats entered 2024 with accomplishments like infrastructure reform, caps on prescription drugs, and one of the strongest economic rebounds in American history, 66 percent of voters still felt that Democrats had accomplished little or nothing.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 1926, he originated the celebration of Black History Week and is the author of 16 books about African Americans. Last year Vice President Mike Pence commemorated the start of Black History Month (BLM) by acknowledging Abraham Lincoln, a white man, for submitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history. Worse, this lack of recognition is reflected in national policy, racial inequities in compensation, and the discounting of black leadership. Kendi, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for nonfiction.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. She’s really the first person, and she publishes a book called Southern Horrors. Du Bois’s work on Reconstruction.

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