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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

Calls for book banning and censorship have become common. Since then, states such as Arkansas and Texas have also opposed the true teaching of the history of Black people in this country by dropping African American history courses and eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

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Local author explores Kentucky’s surroundings in new book

Life and Landscapes

The Sentinel-News: Local author explores Kentucky’s surroundings in new book While countless books have been written about the historic Fort Knox, Shelbyville native Ronald R. The story can be found in the back of “Surrounding Fort Knox” and is also sold as a standalone book. Van Stockum Jr.

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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

ED Surge

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

The group connects Muslim home-schoolers in Southern California by hosting events and providing resources, such as books and curriculum. All four Hidalgos love American history, and a dual-enrollment course allowed their 17-year-old daughter to earn college credit while sharing the class content with her brother and parents.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Without a doubt we would be living on Pinterest since it has dozens of pinboards – and tens of thousands of pins – related to history , including awesome resource sets from the Stanford History Education Group. million book images from the Internet Archive. . National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3

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Multiage classrooms put child development at the center

The Hechinger Report

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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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

he said, noting that fields like literature, anthropology and psychology also grapple with issues of race, gender and sexuality. Marissa Bellenger, one of Cassanello’s graduate students, was warned by a visiting professor teaching a lecture course on American history for which she is a teaching assistant. “He What’s next?”

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