ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. They taught Welch that history is made up of “little moments” in people’s lives.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2022

A little over 50 years ago, a student teacher in Minneapolis hit upon a novel idea to engage his eighth grade American history class in a unit on westward expansion. In that moment, a previously tedious history unit came to life.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Many also found community online, by following Asian American educators publicly sharing their learnings and resources (e.g.,

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I didn't know about the history of Hawaii and what we had done to have it become part of the United States. The cool thing right now is our students are coming with a totally different K-12 education. They might have been in AP African American history. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Today, most of those schools have dissolved into history, and only around 500 still exist, in varying states of upkeep. Washington was born into slavery in Virginia, attends Hampton College and becomes an educator. The list of notable alumni includes longtime U.S. And his cause is what only later becomes known as “civil rights.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. ii] Kim and Hsieh describe the following “polarizing binaries of Asian American representation”: yellow peril perpetual foreigner model minority Erika Lee, Ph.D., Asian Americans were often celebrated “for holding the formula for success” (p.

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ED Surge

JULY 11, 2022

The result is that clicking on a course content listing from Lumen—whether it’s “ Boundless Accounting ” or “ African American History and Culture ” or another course—will likely send you off to Course Hero, where it’s being hosted. History II. In May, Course Hero quietly began putting the content on its site.

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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.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

An overall majority of participants said situations like the discussion of same-sex marriage rights, LGBTQ American history or a teacher having a photo of a same-sex partner on their desk were appropriate for high school — but answers differed by political party.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A spokesman for the South Carolina Department of Education called the lawsuit meritless in a statement to The 19th. The agency will continue to seek meaningful opportunities to build bridges across divisions, honor the richness of our shared history, and teach it with integrity, all while ensuring full compliance with state law, he said.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2024

In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, more women exited the labor force than men, a phenomenon that had never occurred in American history. But its impact on the ability of parents, especially mothers, to participate in the labor force has finally received more attention. Part of the reason was that child care options disappeared.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Biden signed an executive order on AI in October 2023, which directed the Education Department to develop within a year resources, policies and guidance on AI and to create an “AI toolkit” for schools. Walz spent part of his early career teaching in small rural schools, including on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. —

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