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The Future of Democracy Depends on a Quality Civics Education

ED Surge

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said. School District.

Tradition 111
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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

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Professional Development or Summer Camp for Teachers? MAHG is both!

Teaching American History

Fans of game-based learning or historical simulations will have two options during the first week of on-campus classes, as Progressive Era and Indian Assimilation, Resistance, and Removal are both using a Reacting to the Past game alongside our more standard method of seminar discussions.

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WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 2.

Teaching American History

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. I study the stuff of culture and ideas and how those change. Archivist: Great.