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The Future of Democracy Depends on a Quality Civics Education

ED Surge

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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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University.

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Apply Now for NEH Summer Institutes 2024

Zinn Education Project

Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds summer institutes for teachers. These are tuition-free opportunities for K–12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics. The institutes featured below are a few of the ones that could be of interest to people’s history educators.

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The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member!

ASHP CML

Currently ASHP/CML is a major partner in several federally funded National Endowment for the Humanities projects and works with WNET on a history gaming series for middle-school students.ASHP/CML also oversees the Graduate Center’s New Media Lab, a facility for students and faculty to produce digital projects.

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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

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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OPINION: The wrong roadmap for teaching American history

The Hechinger Report

A group of more than 300 historians and education experts published their answer — a “ Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy.” 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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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

In the following weeks, Cousineau recounted, the teachers drafting the American Studies course were told to halt their work, high school English teachers were told to stop writing a new humanities course, and a middle school reading curriculum set to receive final approval was pulled.