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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history.

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OPINION: Why it’s time to discard old stereotypes about Asian American parents and education

The Hechinger Report

Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools. So what’s the harm in the positive stereotype of Asian American parents valuing education more than other parents do? Natasha Warikoo is professor of sociology at Tufts University and a former Guggenheim fellow.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Without a doubt we would be living on Pinterest since it has dozens of pinboards – and tens of thousands of pins – related to history , including awesome resource sets from the Stanford History Education Group.

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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

Duncan devotes three of the 10 chapters in his book to the Race to the Top competition, the basis for my claim that he has been the most influential Secretary of Education in American history. Gates Professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Hard History in Syracuse City Schools

C3 Teachers

You can address history, economics, sociology, you know all the facets of social studies. Some of the major goals were to address history told from multiple perspectives and told through a culturally responsive lens. You can do that through the Inquiry Design Model. We don’t use that word lightly in the district.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

That was apparent in January when the Board of Governors for Florida’s state university system, in approving regulations for the new anti-DEI law, also removed sociology from the list of courses that meet general education requirements. (On On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”)

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

Jeffrey Jackson, a professor in the sociology department at Ole Miss, is a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Context, which spearheaded the creation of the plaques. Related: Black students are drastically underrepresented at top public colleges, data show.

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