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What’s Your Summer Reading?

Teaching American History

Tina Boudell will read American Colossus by HW Brands, which chronicles the rapid industrialization of America in the latter half of the 19 th century and Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era , by Thomas Leonard. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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When personalized learning includes skateboarding: One suburban district’s dramatic transformation

The Hechinger Report

One of the risks of personalized learning is that we move away from the traditional classroom, which is a one-size-fits-all model, to a different one-size-fits-all model, just this new version has bean bag chairs and computers.’’. Betheny Gross, Center for Reinventing Public Education.

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Multiage classrooms put child development at the center

The Hechinger Report

Yet multiage advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on an arbitrary birthdate range is illogical. Advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on arbitrary birthdate ranges is illogical.

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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

Reading the book Half American has changed my perspective on teaching about World War II. I had always heard the traditional narrative of how the home front came together to support the war effort, but the stories told in the book showed me the myriad ways this was not true for African Americans.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. He’s definitely turned around. This year’s been great because we’re all back in the building and I get to see [my students] every day, but there’s definitely a learning gap and a social, behavior, social awkwardness gap going on.

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

Next year will be a better year, definitely. I’m definitely worried about mental health, and there’s a lot of kids that have depression and they joke about it a lot: “Oh, yeah. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Our district has realized some of our challenges.

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The Bill of Rights

Teaching American History

Wilson had argued that any list of rights might be seen as definitive, thus limiting the rights of citizens rather than protecting them. True, the Bill of Rights incorporated much of the English common law and the colonial due process tradition, but it also shed much of this traditions feudal and monarchical features.