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How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

The Hechinger Report

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. In July, Ajith and three of her friends testified before the Texas State Board of Education, demanding changes to the way students are taught.

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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. Maybe my students would write their own textbooks like those at Beachwood (OH) Middle School.

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

ASHP CML

Keep reading for the job description and application information. Please go to [link] more information. The Assistant Director will report to the Executive Director. ASHP/CML also leads other programs at the Graduate Center such as the New Media Lab.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

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.” Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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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

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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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

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.