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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

Teaching American History

To make clear that black schoolteachers would serve in equivalent roles to those of white teachers, the Human Relations Committee proposed to school officials that teachers for the entire fourth grade class during the 19661967 school year be drawn from Reid School. For a history of Rosenwald schools, see Thomas W.

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How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

The Hechinger Report

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. Ankita Ajith can recall learning about slavery, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. It could also help resolve the internal conflicts that many Asian Americans experience when dealing with their sense of identity. KELLEN ZENG. Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. “At

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Only a third of American students are reading proficiently at grade level, according to national benchmark tests. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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‘We’re being attacked’: Florida teachers speak out

The Hechinger Report

Kathleen Gates, a retired teacher who had taught for many years at Brooksville Elementary School in the Hernando County School District, described preparing for that school board meeting as if she were going into battle. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S. Florida Gov.

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OPINION: We can’t become a nation of equal learners until we become a nation of readers

The Hechinger Report

But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. Others blame schools and teachers for “failing” our kids, but the data suggest otherwise. Many people believe that social media and smartphones have diminished our reading abilities. Mississippi Learning.

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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

ED Surge

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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