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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

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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APSA’s Summer Rise High School Intern Program: Meet the Cohort

Political Science Now

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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Consumers get more information about a purchase they once made on trust: college

The Hechinger Report

There is a consumer protection strand of American history, and now it’s higher education’s turn,” said Daniel Greenstein, director of education and postsecondary success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been pressing for better information to be made available to students and their families. Now AIR, the U.S.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

We are fighting over whether or not political parties that are in control of state government, in control of Congress, can control higher education,” Cantwell said. he said, noting that fields like literature, anthropology and psychology also grapple with issues of race, gender and sexuality. What’s next?”

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#TeachTruth Syllabus

Zinn Education Project

The tsunami of laws and Executive Orders attacking public school curricula mobilize a range of doublespeak, from divisive concepts to race scapegoating to psychological stress; many include the admonition that teachers may not teach students that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist. government.

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Column: Pop quiz: What state just banned an AP African American studies course?

The Hechinger Report

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.”

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New Education Department Officials Say Book Bans Are a 'Hoax.' Teachers Disagree.

ED Surge

The prior year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to combat offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating and the teaching of divisive concepts related to racism and sexism in the federal workforce or armed forces.

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