Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

The first camera was invented many years after the conclusion of the American Revolution. How might photographs have changed our understanding of the people, places, and events of the American Revolution? How do you think American history would have changed if President Washington refused to give up the power of the presidency?

Social Studies 130

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For many of today’s students, the new program’s ideas and approaches to rethinking history and how it is taught are not radical. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out. Raylan Li, 15, is excited to become a co-president of the Asian Culture Club this fall.

History 105

History Heritage K-12 American History 105

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. And so on… .

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.”

Education 80

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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Almost ten years ago, I started off teaching and I truly believed that I didn’t need to teach Black History Month or any other cultural month (Hispanic Heritage, Native American History Month, etc.) Frustrated, I asked myself, “how is this celebrating the richness of historically oppressed peoples and cultures?”

Heritage 52

Heritage American History Pedagogy History 52

C3 Teachers

JULY 1, 2024

If you are having students read a secondary source detailing the events that led Europe into global war in 1914, have them create a timeline of these events in a detailed way so that they understand the sequence of events. What kinds of tasks are the sources asking the reader/viewer to participate in? Let’s be more specific.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources American History Government History 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

But the consensus has also promoted individual freedom, political democracy, world peace and cultural tolerance, now growing into acceptance. Back in the District of Columbia, African-American history gained two sites. Usually, that consensus goes unnoticed, or is told in negative terms, as a story of oppressors.

Museum 51

Museum World Religions American History History 51

C3 Teachers

JULY 1, 2024

If you are having students read a secondary source detailing the events that led Europe into global war in 1914, have them create a timeline of these events in a detailed way so that they understand the sequence of events. What kinds of tasks are the sources asking the reader/viewer to participate in? Let’s be more specific.

Primary Sources 40

Primary Sources American History Government History 40

Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It might depend on whether or not what you’re writing about is tied to a specific news event. Whereas I worked for many decades now with Native American communities in the U.S. If it is accepted the editor will typically ask for the first draft within about 4 weeks. No actual expertise in that area. south west.

Anthropology 103

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We can plan events like we always had before. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. There’s just so much that’s been shaken up in our country, in our culture, in our education system. Ben Lawson , band and choir director at Redmond High School.

Oral History 108

Oral History History High School Public School 108

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

American History 144

American History History K-12 Cultures 144

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

This is particularly true for learning our history. To understand America today requires examining the major events in our past that define our national character (for good or for ill). Indeed, the local Civic Learning Plans its supporters propose would just further fragment the history our students learn. citizenship exam.

American History 90

American History History Teaching Civics 90

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

Teaching American History

MAY 21, 2024

Instructor: John Moser (Ashland University) Course Materials: Syllabus , Course Packet , Game Book 610: American Foreign Policy (June 23 – 28) Students examine events and issues in the foreign policy of the American republic. Often these events are portrayed as inevitable and depicted in simplistic terms.

Professional Development 106

Professional Development American History Economics Social Studies 106

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I never took a course in African American history during that time, the late 1980s and early 90s, despite being enveloped in Blackness in my neighborhoods, churches and schools. My knowledge of Black history came as sprinkling rain, a paltry amount that was never enough to have a significant impact.

Heritage 97

Heritage Cultures K-12 American History 97

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Woodson started Negro History Week in 1926 with hopes that black people would be proud of their heritage and that mainstream America would recognize the contributions of its black residents. Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history.

History 88

History Multicultural Education American History Heritage 88

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history and its legacy today.”

Teaching 105

Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 105

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Woodson started Negro History Week in 1926 with hopes that black people would be proud of their heritage and that mainstream America would recognize the contributions of its black residents. Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history.

History 49

History Multicultural Education American History Heritage 49

Zinn Education Project

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

On November 12, the National Museum of African American History and Culture hosted a conversation about the new graphic history , Freedom Was in Sight. The Zinn Education Project co-sponsored the event. The post New Graphic History of Reconstruction in D.C. By Robert Stewart, Smithsonian.

History 52

History Museum American History Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And in one IB history class, she said a teacher had students pick cotton seeds off cotton plants to demonstrate the efficiency of the cotton gin, in an attempt to include multiple perspectives in his class. That conclusion is a marked contrast to Florida’s recently approved and controversial African-American history standards.

History 88

History American History Ancestry Pedagogy 88

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

We should embrace a democratic culture of informed debate and the democratic values of diversity, inclusion and equity, even when others seem willing to cast these aside in exchange for power. I’m encouraging you to put the events of 2020 into the context of our legacy. Black people are not a monolith.

American History 122

American History Cultures Social Studies Economics 122

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

From the 1990s on, the question of how good your history is became secondary to how completely did you conform to Alabama culture,” Flynt said. The Forum did hold presentations at the time about textbooks and preserving a Christian, Western view of American history. Then, he said, he felt targeted by the Eagle Forum.

History 98

History K-12 Library Social Studies 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Giving students the opportunity to practice this important American cultural norm gives our students the edge in college and in life.

Charter School 111

Charter School Private School Tradition Public School 111

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 140

Teaching Civics American History Controversial Topics 140

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Event Recording Recording of the full session, except for the breakout rooms. Formally, he was the director of a place that we hold very dear, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The most important thing they did is they redefined their crime, not as crimes of nationality, of an innate culture. Thanks, T.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52