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Rev Up Your AmRev Curriculum

NCHE

Looking for fresh ways to teach about the American Revolution? Want to connect with fellow classroom teachers and museum educators? Looking for advice on how to navigate teaching inclusive history during this time of divisive rhetoric? Sessions will be led by dynamic classroom teachers and museum educators.

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‘We’re being attacked’: Florida teachers speak out

The Hechinger Report

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics.

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. 175,340 Asian American students (comprising 16.6%

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How sexism and old-fashioned ideals hurt child care operators

The Hechinger Report

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. By comparison, 76 percent of the K12 teaching force is female, and 20 percent are people of color.).

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

History 98
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Mississippi’s darkest days on display in new museums

The Hechinger Report

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. What happened to Emmett Till was brutal, but the tragedy has been sanitized in Mississippi textbooks and in discussions of this state’s violent, racist history. The museums are vast, engaging and traumatizing. An exhibit at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

The students have visited places such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Temple University and a coffee factory. Ninth-grader Layla Stevens, 15, visited the National Museum of Jewish American History on one RWL trip. A key component of the curriculum is a weekly field trip called “real-world-learning,” known as RWL.

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