Civics U

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Immigration and immigration reform have been issues in past American history, and are still issues in American government and politics. This article will not enter that debate, but will review key elements in immigration history and law. Some of these also have a bearing on current issues and decisions.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Without a doubt we would be living on Pinterest since it has dozens of pinboards – and tens of thousands of pins – related to history , including awesome resource sets from the Stanford History Education Group. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom. government as well.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2016

Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. GAO found that these schools were the most racially and economically concentrated. Jennifer Riley-Collins is the executive director of the ACLU of Mississippi.

History 63

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

The three countries share more than a common language: For several decades, their governments forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families and relocated them to distant boarding schools. Children there regularly encountered humiliating, and sometimes violent, treatment as a means to suppress their Native American identity.

Teaching 143

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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” The fast-paced survey covers American history from Columbus to the present day.

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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” The fast-paced survey covers American history from Columbus to the present day.

Government 85

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. A careful reading of the Constitution reveals what American democracy “looks like structurally.”

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Teaching American History

MAY 21, 2024

This class will help students understand the complexities and nuances of a pivotal time in American history. Students will examine the writings of leading black intellectuals and activists about human equality, slavery, self-government, the rule of law, emancipation, colonization, and citizenship. Instructors: Eric C.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families. The federal government has a very limited set of carrots and sticks to encourage diversity.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 23, 2024

He would be quoted in Thomas Weld’s “American Slavery As It Is” (1839), explaining how sugar planters worked their enslaved to death because it was economical to replace them with new African captives. The post Elizabeth Blackwell, Female Pioneer in Medicine appeared first on Teaching American History.

American History 98

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

School leaders have solicited donations from local manufacturing plants, energy firms, even the federal government. One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. million into schoolwide technology upgrades.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases.

Teaching 52

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mississippi was the site of the most notorious lynching in the early civil rights movement, the killing of Emmett Till in 1955, and had the highest rates of lynching in the country — violence meant to impose social, economic, and political intimidation. The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.”

American History 93

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Teaching American History

MARCH 19, 2024

Teaching American History’s Documents and Debates volumes present s American history as a series of topics. As the 1928 presidential race drew to a close, the Republican candidate, former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover outlined the Republicans’ governing philosophy, which he credited with producing the prosperity.

History 52

History Teaching American History Government 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

And she says while some of these schools are doing better than others, she’d like to see the federal government hold them all accountable under the so-called Gainful Employment Rule. Jon: Sarah Igo chairs the American History Department at Vanderbilt and is an intellectual historian. Kirk: Intellectual historian?

Humanities 69

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

There are objective and subjective truths that we must uphold in spite of a federal government that disavows or ignores them. And this year, you must do this with schools closed, amid a terrifying pandemic and an economic crisis the likes of which we haven’t seen in a century. Related: Donald Trump and the white achievement gap.

American History 107

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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 133

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

Primary Sources 98

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Private banks and colleges would make those decisions together, Sam Clovis, a co-chair of Trump’s campaign and an economics professor at Iowa’s Morningside College, said in an interview. China and other economic rivals add them. Anthony Carnevale, director, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

Anthropology 71

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

In 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, which allotted an additional $3.5 The government does have regulations that these entities must follow, but revoking their recognition would require a lengthy Education Department review.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2024

Small business owners told Goldman Sachs they’d like to see government support for improving their options. Currently, the federal government allows businesses to get up to $150,000 back on their taxes for providing child care for their employees. It’s an economic issue for our economy, for businesses to be able to thrive.

Advocacy 127

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

During his time as governor, Walz signed legislation last year to make college tuition-free for Native American students in Minnesota and required K-12 teachers to complete training on Native American history. The shortfall is “immoral,” Harris told members of the National Education Association at a 2019 candidates forum.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

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