The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

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. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. For many of today’s students, the new program’s ideas and approaches to rethinking history and how it is taught are not radical.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers. The post Preparing for a One Day Seminar appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We created the resource Short Nonfiction for American History: The American Revolution and Constitution because historical events are full of controversies, mysteries, and dramas that engage and excite students of all ages.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Half American chronicles the lives of African Americans who fought in World War II and in the war against racism in the United States. Courtney Bennis High School Social Studies Teacher, Virginia Beach, Virginia A huge “Thank you!” I really enjoyed the book and wanted to share it with my students.

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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. Constitution PD.4.C.3 Government: PP.2.USG.2

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While they're sometimes belittled, worksheets are an excellent tool for helping students analyze primary sources or better understand a historical event through a secondary source. Each US History unit also include thorough 9-page worksheets packets for every unit in the curriculum.

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Future of History

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Here’s how Sarah Cooper taught her 8th grade social studies class today, as the nation went about determining a presidential winner. Unlike the day after the 2016 election, “I’m feeling not so much shock as the need to shore up my teaching and once again dig into difficult topics.” The post The Day After: How Do We Teach Now?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We can plan events like we always had before. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. The school has lost a bunch of teachers, but three of my son’s core subject teachers — English, social studies and science — have all left since Christmas.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2023

More than 10,000 teachers signed up to access people’s history lessons in 2023 , bringing our full registration at the Zinn Education Project to more than 160,000 teachers from every state in the country!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

The anti-CRT efforts to restrict how race is taught have clashed with initiatives in several states, including South Dakota, Oklahoma and New Mexico, to teach Native American history — which has often been left out of instruction — more accurately and fully. The post States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Related: Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies? This is particularly true for learning our history. To understand America today requires examining the major events in our past that define our national character (for good or for ill). Is American history education the problem?

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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. On the Wednesday following the A.P.

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Students of History

JANUARY 6, 2022

The insurrection of January 6th, 2021 is something that will be taught in US History classrooms as long as American History is a part of high school. Of course, it can be difficult to maintain the right perspective when teaching events that are so recent. The embedded video is Jordan Klepper's piece from the Daily Show.

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Teaching American History

MAY 21, 2024

With each class lasting one week and with teachers coming from all over the country, it’s a bit like a summer camp for social studies teachers! Events culminated in the 1830s with open conflict and the forced removal often called “The Trail of Tears.” appeared first on Teaching American History. MAHG is both!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history and its legacy today.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“I felt like it was my social responsibility to go out and speak,” she said. 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.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Like previous generations of Black students, you must not only master language arts, social studies, math and art, you must do so while still demanding equal treatment and funding for schools, diverse teachers, safe and healthy learning conditions and rich curricular offerings, including the study of Black people’s contributions to American history.

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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.”. Then, he said, he felt targeted by the Eagle Forum.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 5, 2023

Where honest teaching about political events and history is considered divisive and may be criminalized? Slekar writes: “In the 1930s, George Counts dared the schools to “build a new social order” comprised of an active, critical citizenry, challenging industrial society’s inequities through boldly democratic education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Capitol and other seismic events with their students. Parents, meanwhile, are increasingly pushing back when they hear of teachers discussing current events with students. But I don’t place my dislike at the forefront of my discussion of the events of the day. government and African American history in Hamilton, Ohio.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

and African American history. Chris Tims, a social studies teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, says he won’t stop teaching the 1619 Project, despite political pressure. Americans have been arguing over what to teach children about U.S. Related: OPINION — The wrong roadmap for teaching American history.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Event Recording Recording of the full session, except for the breakout rooms. Because everyone who studies fascism knows that fascists are always democratically elected to then destroy democracy. And of course, history and social studies teachers. I will be at future classes.

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