Civics U

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Immigration and immigration reform have been issues in past American history, and are still issues in American government and politics. This article will not enter that debate, but will review key elements in immigration history and law. This history can be found at [link]. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I taught my students to respect the power of civic engagement and social activism. 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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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

THE DRIVE FOR PROGRESS In American history early colonists’ and settlers’ desire and drive for progress was necessitated by the need to organize ways to survive, and fed by the opportunity to use the new territory that they took and occupied.

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

The idea of natural law and natural rights appeared in ancient Greek philosophy and was addressed by philosophers in various periods of Western history. They are an intrinsic part of human existence.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Only a third of American students are reading proficiently at grade level, according to national benchmark tests. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

I’m principal of a high school with a well-known name, only because it’s the site of one of the most devastating school shootings in recent American history: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. I’m also a mother, a neighbor and a witness to the enduring scars left by gun violence in our schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The ban was recently reversed in response to widespread criticism, but it is emblematic of an ongoing campaign by state and local officials around the country to dictate how K-12 and college and university educators and students address race, history and social justice. How can history teachers present the three-fifths clause of the U.S.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

He sat down with Ellen Tucker to discuss how teachers can use the volume in their government or civics classrooms. <I>Federalism</I>, with John Dinan appeared first on Teaching American History. John Dinan is the editor of our latest CDC volume, Federalism. The post What Documents Should I Teach? <I>Federalism</I>,

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today. Since its ratification, the U.S.

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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I thought about how interesting it would be for students to investigate how their school fits into the story of the United States, and I started to wonder how inquiry could help my students explore their community’s histories. Community history is a natural avenue for inquiry. oral histories). oral histories).

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. Nathan’s past students have created and led several civic and historical preservation projects.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

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. Several findings in the report have direct implications for Asian American safety.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I didn't know about the history of Hawaii and what we had done to have it become part of the United States. They might have been in AP African American history. When I learned this in my 30s, my brain was hopefully fully developed by that time. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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Doing Social Studies

JULY 23, 2020

Together with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Wichita is sponsoring a virtual webinar entitled “The History of Race Relations in America: the African-American Experience.” The webinar will include a live panel on Wednesday, July 29th, from 1:00-2:30 PM (CST).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. Many people believe that social media and smartphones have diminished our reading abilities. Others blame schools and teachers for “failing” our kids, but the data suggest otherwise.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Including American History, World History, Civics, and Geography. Requested Product Attributes. Compatible with MacBook Air laptops. Web-based preferred. Standards-aligned: 2010 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies. Next Generation Science Standards and 2005 Alabama Course of Study: Science.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom. government as well.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Primary documents give us unexpected perspectives on history. Landen Schmeichel sees this often when using documents in his Advanced Placement US History course at Legacy High School in Bismarck, North Dakota. Those ideas birthed what I would say is the greatest nation in human history.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He did, and Livingston soon found herself sitting in an introductory college course in US history. The next semester, she took two more US history classes, then realized she’d found her major. The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Related: Rewrite the history textbooks, or the white supremacist violence will continue. Students must be held accountable for learning the truth about American history and racism in this country. Students must be held accountable for learning the truth about American history and racism in this country. Biden’s $1.9

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

secretaries of Education and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is to “transform teaching of history and civics” in ways that (they hope) will diminish political polarization in this country. This is particularly true for learning our history. Their ambitious effort, endorsed by six former U.S.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Today, most of those schools have dissolved into history, and only around 500 still exist, in varying states of upkeep. And I was thinking about what I was going to do next, and I found myself at lunch with an African American preservationist, and she was the first person to tell me about Rosenwald Schools. And the story shocked me.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!” Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. Czarnecki says.

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Diane Ravitch

JUNE 1, 2024

My partner—a retired history teacher— thinks he should be required to spend 1,000 hours studying the Constitution, civics, and American history. What should be his punishment for the 34 counts on which the jury found him guilty? Please offer your idea. Here are a few suggestions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We must insist that the American History we teach in our schools includes discussions of the systemic racism that has defined and divided our country. I am a primary resource when it comes to American History and civil rights, particularly in education. The National Education Association presented me with the Carter G.

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Students of History

JANUARY 6, 2022

The insurrection of January 6th, 2021 is something that will be taught in US History classrooms as long as American History is a part of high school. ” This must be discussed as part of your US History or American Government course.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 5, 2023

Tim Slekar, Director of the Educator Preparation Program at Muskingum University in Ohio comments here on the recent report that NAEP scores in history and civics dropped during the pandemic. Where honest teaching about political events and history is considered divisive and may be criminalized? I wrote the above in 2018.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. Justice Kagan has argued eloquently for the importance of opposing official endorsements of religion in civic practices and memorials such as public architecture.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 22, 2023

Two subjects where I felt confident as a reviewer, in addition to reading, were history and civics. I was momentarily dismayed, but not surprised, to learn that the NAEP scores in history and civics had declined, as they had in reading and math, after the disruptions and closings caused by the pandemic.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Volunteers who came to Mississippi after the initial June wave often assisted the ongoing civic and practical education taking place in “Freedom Schools.” History this Week. The History Channel. The post 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer appeared first on Teaching American History. April 2020. Dittmer, John.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

history, I have had a growing unease in recent years about the relevance of my vocation. Related: OPINION: After shocking election, New York history teachers tries to alleviate ‘despair, anxiety or indignation ’. history teachers spend a lot of time and teaching energy focusing on the nation’s shortcomings — and for good reasons.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Chris Reid, a banker and vice mayor of Twin Falls and father with seven children in the public schools, said he was eager to help select the new English Language Arts curriculum and make sure materials were “age-appropriate” and not include “revisionist history,” LGBTQ themes or sexuality introduced “to younger-age children.” “My

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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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Diane Ravitch

JULY 4, 2024

In my school days, we learned only the positive spin on American history. As a college student and a graduate student and an adult, I learned about the dark side of our nation’s history. My mother was an immigrant from Bessarabia who would not tolerate a bad word against the country that took in her family.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Teaching civics is not only supposed to give people the basic skills to participate in a democracy, it should instill an appreciation of the fact that ignorance can be scaled up through policy. Unfortunately, the average score for white students on NAEP civics in 2018 was 16 points belowthe 178 needed to be deemed “proficient.”.

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