ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning. The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library. He passed out copies of the image to each member of the class. No internet.

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JUNE 11, 2024

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. But educators around the country continue to pledge to teach the truth about structural racism. Dancer at Juneteenth celebration in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carol M.

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MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” Given the Library of Congress’s mission to connect its archives with others across the nation, we were excited to add another dimension to the current Library of Congress resources for teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Eventually, and unexpectedly, the school board voted to keep him on as superintendent. “A

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Library of Congress. Board of Education decision. Library of Congress. Board of Education case that racial segregation in education and “separate but equal” were unconstitutional, Elizabeth Eckford and her peers enrolled in the all-white Central High School. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. Let’s take maps, for example.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 11, 2024

In preparation for the 2024 Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute in Richmond, VA, Amy Livingston is reading Doris Bergen’s War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust. Spanning five centuries of Latino experience in the US, the book will enrich her knowledge of American history as a whole.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! When Eleni Saridis taught the founding era in her U.S.

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MARCH 14, 2025

renowned political scientist, distinguished educator, and cherished mentor, passed away on January 26, 2025, at the age of 93. ’s dedication to education, public service, and social justice. Mary Coleman and John Matthew Holden, with additional contributions from The HistoryMakers website and the APSA. Dr. Matthew Holden Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

For decades, fights over racist historical monuments and markers have swirled in and around America’s public education system. About 140 public school buildings are still named after Confederate leaders, according to a 2018 analysis by Education Week. The focal point was the city’s Board of Education building.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

A supportive and engaged group of educators. We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Controversy, Consensus, and Compromise in the American Founding, at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, AZ. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, TX. Augustine, FL.

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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. In 2010, Nathan was named Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. So, you need to design a CBA?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

On windswept fields outside Fargo, North Dakota, a bold experiment in education has begun. Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. — We’ll do whatever we have to do for testing.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. You wanna buy a college education? At least, that’s how things turn out for the average American graduate, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. Of course you do!

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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.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 18, 2025

” Today, it’s hard to imagine how many American women in the early twentieth century, especially lower-income, less-educated women, were ignorant about birth control. Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress. The post Margaret Sanger: The Woman Rebel appeared first on Teaching American History.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Reading: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2021); Lucretia Giese, “Winslow Homer’s Prisoners from the Front: an American History Painting?”

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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. course targeted by Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You cannot attend public schools, visit the public library, eat in restaurants, enjoy public parks, go to churches or attend movie theaters. The idea behind CRT is that racism is not a matter of individual bigotry, but is systemic in America, embedded in our educational system, our system of justice, our economy and society.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

27) Library of Congress, Miscellaneous Items in High Demand. He studied briefly at Wilberforce University and in 1937 moved to New York City, where he furthered his education at City College of New York. Washington D.C: Recently I was planning to go from Louisville to Nashville by bus. In 1941 he accepted A.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. We’re doing everything we can,” says Mr. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

That money came through a federal program that pumped $24 billion in grants to child care centers across the country to keep them running during the pandemic — part of the single largest investment in child care in American history. It’ll just be more like quicksand than a sudden drop-off. “It Democratic Gov. It’s been a community.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

At the meeting, reading a prepared speech from her cell phone, Saykhamphone shared the cotton gin story and told board members that “for me to truly appreciate American history and my Black and Asian history, standards should not be watered down.” Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Concurrently, civil rights activists in Mississippi participated in a series of “Wade-Ins” to integrate public beaches, “Read-Ins” to desegregate public libraries, and “Pray-Ins” at all-white churches. The post 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer appeared first on Teaching American History.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

The Founder’s Library at Howard University in Washington, DC. The abolitionist, statesman and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass said that denying a person an education means adding another link in the chain of their servitude. People who know American history, specifically black history, don’t ask if we need HBCUs.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

“There was always a group or two that wanted [social studies books] to stay as we had had it previously,” said Ed Richardson, who led the state department of education at the time. “No No matter what has happened since then to correct that part of history.”. It was not an intellectual process. Credit: Rebecca Griesbach/AL.com.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

And because education was second only to safety for Faris’ parents, when they finally reached Kentucky in February, they immediately enrolled Faris and his younger sister, Rana, in school. The two schools share the gym, cafeteria and library. But was GEO International the right response? Here the teachers slow down. In the U.S.,

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MARCH 7, 2024

As part of our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle series , historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad joined educators Jesse Hagopian and T. One of the most striking things, if you’re an educator, is just to simply show the level of prosecutorial discretion afforded during the Trump administration. Hagopian: Incredible research you did on that.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

Capitol last week, my instinctive response — before the despondency I felt at the desecration of American democracy, or the anger that would later have me shouting at my television set — was historical. Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images. I scrolled through my memory for comparisons. Contemporary U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Department of Education ends Bidens book ban hoax. In fact, educators say theyve been subjected to censorship for years. In fact, educators say theyve been subjected to censorship for years. We have experienced what we say we have experienced. We have witnessed what we say we have witnessed.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

All of this reached a boiling point last April, when Pennridge hired a brand-new consultancy firm called Vermilion Education. Its “ 1776 Curriculum ” for grades K-12 has been criticized for revisionist history, including whitewashed accounts of US slavery and depictions of Jamestown as a failed communist colony.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

On January 8, 2024, historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad joined educators Jesse Hagopian and T. Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. This was so enlightening. Thanks, T.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Education vaulted to the forefront of conversations about the presidential race when Democratic nominee Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate. He has championed investments in public education: For example, in March 2023, he signed a bill to make school meals free to all students in public schools. Harris, a former U.S.

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