Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Peters agreed.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. While earning his Master’s degree, Hawkins taught a project-based government course. “My We’re good.’”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Even as a higher education becomes among the biggest investments Americans make, the information available about what students and their families are getting for their money remains stubbornly sparse and often inaccurate and even misleading. Propelled by rising costs, and pushed in part by outside forces, that’s beginning to change.

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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. Government: PP.2.USG.2

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history. Reading through each letter at the start of the year informs me of what motivates each student. We developed a strong relationship based on understanding each other’s backgrounds and values.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

His scholarship focused on the study of government, politics, and political actors, with an emphasis on their origins, foundations, and interactions with groups and individuals. Governance Reform Project, collaborating with researchers from several Los Angeles universities. In 2023, he played a key role in leading the L.A.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Documentation depends on the information families can access to prove their lineage.

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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. State Archives!! :

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

At the beginning of our unit on the WWII, I talked to the students about how the war, like many events in American history, impacted people in different ways and our goal was to see the war with new eyes through specific groups of people who lived it. I really enjoyed the book and wanted to share it with my students.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2018

A 2015 survey by the Council of State Governments Justice Center found that only 13 states provided educational services for kids inside juvenile justice facilities that were comparable to those provided for kids outside of them. Its implementation has coincided with the rapid rise in course completions and diplomas awarded.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Families had weathered a series of blows: decades of government disinvestment; the vanishing of businesses along the commercial corridor in the wake of the Columbia Avenue uprisings of the civil rights era; the exodus of working- and middle-class residents; and the ushering in of drugs and gun violence and tough-on-crime laws.

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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.

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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. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

They argue that their general Roadmap is meant to “inspire and inform” curriculum and standards authors, and they thus do not endorse any particular curriculum. Is American history education the problem? The post OPINION: The wrong roadmap for teaching American history appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Government is kind of leading from the rear here. So I don’t know where to get any information from. I kind of just get my information from around, you know, just from what my parents and teachers tell me.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 30, 2024

The first Presidential inauguration in American history entailed careful planning, with much behind-the-scenes negotiation. He abhorred those whom he saw applying too aristocratic a veneer over the inauguration ceremonies and, by extension, the new government. The Secretary was going on: I must speak or nobody would. “Mr.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

government since the 2017 budget year. universities are getting new scrutiny as the government says it’s worried about foreign meddling, with the U.S. The department gave Harvard and Yale 60 days to produce a list of contributions they receive from foreign governments and other donors, an order U.S. Foreign gifts to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

Most of those gains were lost, however, in 1877 when the federal government pulled troops out of the South. Once the federal government left, a backlash began. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. history and social studies curriculums. history and its legacy today.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2017

Jelani Cobb, the New Yorker columnist tweeted , “The biggest indictment of the way we teach American history is that people can look at #Charlottesviille and say ‘This is not who we are.’” In an Associated Press story , DeVos said Washington (aka the federal government) has a responsibility to “set a tone.”

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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. Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

There were bombings that people “just had to get used to” as the conflict between the government and ISIS spread. His lesson on the Civil Rights movement during his American History class on a March afternoon relied on photographs with short text portions to help the discussion. They lived in a town about 35 miles from Baghdad.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene at MAHG 2021 Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. For Europeans, World War I was devastating.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. 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.

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Teaching American History

MAY 14, 2024

Judging by its approval ratings over the past decade, Congress has lost the support of the American people. Once considered to be the great American contribution to constitutional government—being governed by our own consent through elected, representative lawmakers—Congress is now the most disliked part of our political system.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

King understood that our rights are not given to us by the government, but are ours by the grace of God,” the governor said. This suppression of Black history is going to become a national thing if DeSantis and people who support him gain control of the federal government and the White House.” are systemic.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And you must do all you can to fight for the education you deserve, one that will prepare you to be informed citizens, activists and leaders. There are objective and subjective truths that we must uphold in spite of a federal government that disavows or ignores them. Related: Donald Trump and the white achievement gap.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Youngkin positioned himself as the defender of ordinary parents fed up with what they perceive as government overreach. government created these policies. In the weeks leading up to the election, Youngkin posted a meme of his Democrat opponent captioned: “Scary Terry [McCauliffe] will keep parents out of their kids’ schools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2021

In my view, this was an “insurrection,” a violent uprising against a government. Reminding students to consider the source of their information, and that all media has some bias, is a critical first step. Subsequent conversations can focus on media literacy. As so many others have pointed out, the events of Jan.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

There are a few problems with those debates, says Morgan Polikoff , one of which is that they’re not particularly informed by evidence about what people want for public education. On the topic of “same-sex penguin adoption,” 79 percent of Democrats and 40 percent of Republicans said it was appropriate for high school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Samantha Palu, a high school government teacher in South Dakota, came to school on Jan. The kids also know that I’m going to be fair about the information that I share with them and that I’m very particular about my facts.” government and African American history in Hamilton, Ohio. Capitol the previous day.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

At the new board’s first meeting in January 2022, members of its new majority attacked proposed AP World History textbooks for not focusing enough on the “meat and potatoes of history,” and complained that elementary social studies didn’t adequately “focus on the greatness of America.” Then there was the curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The largest student protests in American history were in May of 1970, following the Cambodian invasion and the tragic shootings of student protesters at Kent State and Jackson State. And so you have to start with the basic building blocks. Vannakota says these initiatives share a simple goal to promote healthy debate.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

He emphasized that the main idea is to give borrowers better information about whether they’ll be able to pay back their loans. That information just isn’t available at most schools, said Mamie Voight, director of policy research at the Institute for Higher Education Policy in Washington. I’m skeptical of our ability to predict.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. It also reminded me about the information in the documentary 13th.

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