ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. EdSurge spent a morning with the teachers as they toured Smithsonian museums in small groups. The teaching seed was planted in Autumn Rivera’s psyche when she was quite young. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig.

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Museum Education Historic Sites History 140

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Courtesy of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University. President Nixon addressing a joint session of Congress; WHPO-9299-07; 6/1/1972.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I really did not expect to make it home,” she said during a recent conference on teaching difficult topics in the current partisan political environment, particularly in Florida. Before she left her house that evening, she printed out her will and put it on the table, along with a letter to her family. “I Florida Gov.

Civics 145

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” With Francis’s help, we began to frame a colloquium to focus on the pre-19 th century period and chose the title, “ Uncovering Lost Voices in American History.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Research evidence certainly backs a phonics approach when first teaching kids how to read words but students need a lot more than word recognition to become good readers. who started kindergarten in 2011.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Malik Ali teaching. Malik Ali, a James Madison Fellow and 2017 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, is Tukman Distinguished Teacher of History at the Branson School in Ross, California. “I Question America: 1963-1964.” Jackson, MS.

American History 98

American History Archiving History Museum 98

Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Some of our topics include: Security, Self Determination, and Empire: The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, TX. Augustine, FL. Click here.

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Historic Sites Museum American History Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out. KELLEN ZENG. Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. “At

History 109

History Heritage K-12 American History 109

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

December 31, 1935) State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Senate reduced the number of proposed amendments from 17 to 12. By supporting freedom of conscience, free speech, and enhanced rights of due process of law, Americans appealed beyond their traditions to their own distinctly American ideas. Shermans view prevailed.

Government 98

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

He has written for and consulted with museums and galleries, and was co-curator of the acclaimed exhibition Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Ramsey will be in conversation with Jesse Hagopian.

History 52

History Museum American History Leadership 52

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The students helped research and re-fresh APSA Educate’s Teaching the Russia-Ukriance War Resource Collection. Some of my favorite classes that I’ve taken are AP American History and AP Government. I participate in clubs like Model UN and Peace Makers and Problem Solvers with the Marshall Legacy Institute.

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High School Civic Engagement Civics Social Justice 50

ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Visiting Lecturers and Session Leaders Louise Bernard is the director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. Aston Gonzalez is associate professor of history at Salisbury University in Maryland. He is a scholar of nineteenth century African American history, politics, and visual culture.

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Museum American History History Library 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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 K–12 teaching force is female, and 20 percent are people of color.).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

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. course targeted by Gov.

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History American History Teaching K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

Masterman High School, the rising junior was doing research for a proposal to convince the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to erect a marker to commemorate the walkouts, when thousands of local students marched to protest racial injustice more than 50 years earlier. It was the summer of 2019, and Nia was 15.

Archiving 139

Archiving Museum History Primary Sources 139

Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Whereas I worked for many decades now with Native American communities in the U.S. So, if I was going to make, develop an op-ed around Native American history and culture I’ve written books, received grants and so on, I’m well prepared to make that argument. No actual expertise in that area. south west.

Anthropology 121

Anthropology Archaeology Artifacts Heritage 121

ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Tuesday, July 11 – Sessions at Metropolitan Museum of Art The War in Oil, Bronze, and Plaster Session 1 - Reflections on the previous day. Reading: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Lunch on own.

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Museum American History Library History 52

Zinn Education Project

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

On November 12, the National Museum of African American History and Culture hosted a conversation about the new graphic history , Freedom Was in Sight. Jessica Rucker, Kate Masure, Maya Davis at NMAAHC on Nov. By Robert Stewart, Smithsonian. The Zinn Education Project co-sponsored the event.

History 52

History Museum American History Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. Most Americans were appalled. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence.

Teaching 140

Teaching Civics American History Controversial Topics 140

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history. When slavery is covered in history class, the teaching of black benign servitude too often goes along with ideas that the Ku Klux Klan is a Christian organization exhibiting principles like loving thy neighbor.

History 91

History Multicultural Education American History Heritage 91

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history. When slavery is covered in history class, the teaching of black benign servitude too often goes along with ideas that the Ku Klux Klan is a Christian organization exhibiting principles like loving thy neighbor.

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History Multicultural Education American History Heritage 49