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The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. A quarter of Americans were unaware that the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech. This is an issue of how we teach American history.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Washington University in St.
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NCHE
JUNE 25, 2023
The National Council for History Education stands in support of history teachers in Florida. The social studies standards focused on African American history, recently approved by the Florida Board of Education, sanitize historical acts of violence against Black Americans.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 11, 2023
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.
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. In July, Ajith and three of her friends testified before the Texas State Board of Education, demanding changes to the way students are taught.
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 8, 2024
While I was aware of segregation and racism in the military at this time, and the response to returning veterans like Isaac Woodard, I hadn’t realized all the ways African Americans were discriminated against, particularly with regards to the violence shown towards them and the efforts to keep them from fighting in Europe and the Pacific.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 28, 2021
Related: Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies? This is particularly true for learning our history. Is American history education the problem? The post OPINION: The wrong roadmap for teaching American history appeared first on The Hechinger Report. citizenship exam.
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