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

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. 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. My desire to know exploded. King, Ph.D.,

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example.

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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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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. Sue Duncan’s “main currency,” though, was not the teaching of literacy or mathematics, but “love.”. Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.

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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. Thank you, Nick.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

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Careers at Community Colleges: Applying to Jobs at 2-Year Institutions

Political Science Now

Johnson is a tenured Instructor in Political Science, History, and Geography at Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead, MN. in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and French and an M.A in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center.