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‘We’re being attacked’: Florida teachers speak out

The Hechinger Report

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. Florida Gov.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

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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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.

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APSA’s Summer Rise High School Intern Program: Meet the Cohort

Political Science Now

They also talked to APSA Educate about their passion for civic education, social justice, scholarly analysis, and interest in studying political science at the undergraduate level. Read her interview discussing her experience with civic education and civic engagement at the high school level here.

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2023 Institute Faculty

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Visiting Lecturers and Session Leaders Louise Bernard is the director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. Bogart is professor emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University. Aston Gonzalez is associate professor of history at Salisbury University in Maryland.

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60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer

Teaching American History

Volunteers who came to Mississippi after the initial June wave often assisted the ongoing civic and practical education taking place in “Freedom Schools.” Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. The post 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer appeared first on Teaching American History. I Question America: 1963-1964.” Jackson, MS.

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

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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