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TAH Multiday Prompts Discussion of Partisanship, Then and Now

Teaching American History

Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas. Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas, provided a substitute teacher so that Lohrding could fly on a Friday into Burbank Airport in time for the seminars opening reception and dinner that night.

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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

Teaching American History

Still, to those orchestrating the integration process, this first year of limited integration succeeded well enough, and plans were made to send other carefully chosen black students into the elementary and junior high schools in September 1965. 4 [October 1988], 387 444.)) Watch for Part 2 coming in March 2025!

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Moten’s grandmother remembers her time at Roberts Vaux Junior High School fondly: the sewing classes, cheering at basketball games and swaying during dances in the gym. Ninth-grader Layla Stevens, 15, visited the National Museum of Jewish American History on one RWL trip.

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