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.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Civics Archiving Government 52

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.

Primary Sources 67

Primary Sources Archiving Library American History 67

ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

They might have been in AP African American history. And in high school I wasn't taught those things. The cool thing right now is our students are coming with a totally different K-12 education. They might have already learned about what oppression is on a short-term basis through TikTok.

K-12 120

K-12 Pedagogy American History History 120

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. He told her about the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University. The post Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story appeared first on Teaching American History.

Teaching 52

Teaching Geography Ancestry Primary Sources 52

ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She was director of exhibitions at the New York Public Library, and previously a senior content developer and interpretive planner in the New York office of the museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, where she worked on the development of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, along with other international projects.

Museum 40

Museum American History History Library 40

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. She also pursues her own research. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!” Now she sees herself preparing students for lives of civic engagement.

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments. Research about the effect of technology on children’s lives is, in fact, mixed. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms.

K-12 94

K-12 High School Library Elementary School 94

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Social emotional learning (SEL) — tools and strategies that research shows can help students better grasp academic content — has become a new lightning rod for the far-right across and is often conflated with Critical Race Theory or CRT. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

Elementary School 98

Elementary School High School Civics Pedagogy 98

ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

Polikoff and his fellow researchers at the University of California, where he’s a professor of education, set out to find what Americans think about topics that have been roiled in controversy over the past several years. “I But when it comes to the average American? The study is based on survey responses from 3,905 U.S.

Education 145

Education Controversial Topics Civics Elementary School 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The largest student protests in American history were in May of 1970, following the Cambodian invasion and the tragic shootings of student protesters at Kent State and Jackson State. Kirk: One idea picking up steam is to promote civic dialog in and out of the classroom. Kirk: That’s Raj Vannakota. They understand this.

Civics 87

Civics Cultures Political Science Advocacy 87

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. There were no headlines about the dismal state of teaching and learning American history and civics in 2018.

Civics 40

Civics History Social Studies American History 40

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.

Teaching 139

Teaching Civics American History Controversial Topics 139

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Exit polls conducted by the research firm Edison Research show that President Donald Trump received 57 percent of the total number of ballots cast by white voters. Unfortunately, the average score for white students on NAEP civics in 2018 was 16 points belowthe 178 needed to be deemed “proficient.”.

Civics 131

Civics American History Leadership History 131

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

government and African American history in Hamilton, Ohio. In his research, Journell found that students don’t care where their teachers stand politically as long as they feel like they aren’t being pressured to think a certain way. government and African American history in right-leaning Hamilton, Ohio.

Controversial Topics 111

Controversial Topics Social Studies Government American History 111