Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. In their view, teaching American history as a story of “oppression and victimhood” misrepresents the past and divides the country along racial lines.

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Social Justice Education American History K-12 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

They watched as the police murder of an unarmed Black man reignited the country’s fight for racial and social justice. And they lived through perhaps the most divisive presidential battle in American history, culminating in rioters storming the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

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Charter School High School Social Justice Tradition 122

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: ATLANTA – As more and more attempts to restrict discussion of gender and race in K-12 schools across the country take hold, where do the ideas go?

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K-12 Social Justice American History History 144

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. history and its legacy today.” and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 107

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The Truth About How We Teach the Past The Florida Department of Education approved a rule that teachers may not define American history as something other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence. Donate to bring these lessons to more classrooms.

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