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OPINION: Florida’s governor and the College Board do not get to decide how we learn Black history

The Hechinger Report

Ron DeSantis or the College Board to curate and disburse Black history to us. As despicable and harmful as the Florida governor’s recent rejection of the pilot Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course was, DeSantis does not get to decide when and how we learn Black history. DeSantis’ playbook is plagiarized.

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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. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes.

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Renowned HBCU creates a ‘safe haven’ for Black feminist and queer studies

The Hechinger Report

Related Hechinger Reads: Teachers, deputized to fight the culture wars, are often reluctant to serve Lessons about Native American history are at risk of disappearing What do classroom conversations about race, identity and history really look like?

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. We’d have a variety of Social Studies simulations and games available to us. government as well.

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Inspired by front-line health care workers, record numbers apply to medical schools

The Hechinger Report

It’s unprecedented,” said Geoffrey Young, the AAMC’s senior director for student affairs and programs, who compares it to another response to a traumatic moment in American history: the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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

Political Science Now

They also talked to APSA Educate about their passion for civic education, social justice, scholarly analysis, and interest in studying political science at the undergraduate level. Some of my favorite classes that I’ve taken are AP American History and AP Government.

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In Memoriam: Dr. Boris E. Ricks, Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Passes Away

Political Science Now

Within this framework, he concentrated on key concepts such as power, conflict, social justice, equality, relative deprivation, and representation. 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.