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ED Surge
MARCH 15, 2024
This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. Who would read their work? This pivot changed everything for students.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
For many of today’s students, the new program’s ideas and approaches to rethinking history and how it is taught are not radical. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out. Zeng and her friends never really ventured outside their Asian American bubble.
Teaching American History
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. Peters agreed. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote.
Teaching American History
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. He told her about the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University. “I found other people who were good at what they did, and learned from them.”
Teaching American History
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. I was raring to go!
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
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.
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