Studies Weekly

MARCH 14, 2025

It may seem simple, but the ability to use printed, colored text and images when teaching social studies is incredibly impactful, she explains. Unlike traditional textbooks, Studies Weekly removes barriers and allows for a dynamic, interactive approach to learning. The newspapers] draw students in with their visuals and text features.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

True, the Bill of Rights incorporated much of the English common law and the colonial due process tradition, but it also shed much of this traditions feudal and monarchical features. It also showed that between 1776 and 1791 Americans had developed their own, broader understanding of rights.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. In 1879 the Court stood by the centuries-old understanding of marriage , ruling that religious freedom was bounded by basic legal traditions embodied in the common law.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Related: In the wake of don’t say gay lgbtq students won’t be silenced Clearly, though, it takes a lot of courage to confront or speak out against this governor, a national leader in restricting what teachers teach in their classrooms. Books from a pilot African American studies course now banned in Florida by Gov. are systemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. Lengthening the school day or year isn’t a new idea.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. You’re stronger minded.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Hawkins sees teaching as team effort to that helps young people work and learn cooperatively.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. They might have been in AP African American history.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Literary groups like the Reading Room Society for Men of Colour and Wide Awake Society differed from the slavery, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights movement eras that I attributed to representing all of African American history. I began to wonder what else I didn’t know. Elephant knowledge is spreading.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 18, 2024

And that means the pinnacle of TAH’s professional development for teachers has arrived as well: our Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University in Ashland, OH. The four questions cover a variety of topics, eras, or themes in American history and government.

American History 52

American History Primary Sources Government History 52

Teaching American History

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the next few days, those who have completed all coursework for the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program may begin writing their qualifying exams, so as to graduate with their degrees this December. Yet discussing these documents in the interactive online class sessions energized their teaching practice.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

The goal is to stop tethering teaching to “seat time” — where students are grouped by age and taught at a uniform, semester pace — and instead adopt competency-based education, in which students progress through skills and concepts by demonstrating proficiency. According to Baesler, however, “We were too often teaching to a test.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The following documents tell the story of the changes of the party systems throughout American history. Given the traditional roles of parties, we must think seriously about whether a rejuvenation of the parties might be an elixir for our contemporary ills. Want more resources for your classroom?

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Government History American History Tradition 52

Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

While teachers still provide some instruction, students also get to take classes online, and they have the option of moving through the coursework at a faster pace than traditional school schedules allow. Youth are saying ‘this isn’t something I can teach myself, I need more direct instruction.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

The changes support a contention of high-school reformers nationally and some educators here: “The way we’re teaching students, it’s not working,” the Vista science teacher Allison Whitman said during a recent weekday before school ended for the summer. Betheny Gross, Center for Reinventing Public Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Yet multiage advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on an arbitrary birthdate range is illogical. Advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on arbitrary birthdate ranges is illogical.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

She was writing about the importance of revitalizing and teaching Indigenous languages, specifically the Nuu-wee-ya’ language and her tribe’s dialects. “I Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. SALEM, Ore. Jaeci Hall completed her dissertation in tears.

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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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C3 Teachers

APRIL 10, 2022

Don’t get me wrong, we believe that traditional methods are important as well. We were looking for a comprehensive survey of modern American history, from Reconstruction to the present in which we could highlight this hard history. You take this and then make it your own to serve your students that are in front of you.

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History Social Studies Sociology Professional Development 52

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Buffalo were disappearing from their traditional hunting grounds, and their people were hungry. Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland University’s Masters Program in American History and Government. Brady, New York. Other Cheyenne and Arapahos were tired of fighting.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

schools, as teachers attempt to make a traditional, Eurocentric curriculum personally interesting to a diverse student body. In the Colonial School District in New Castle, Delaware, educators are moving away from traditional textbooks and using open educational resources to bring more diverse perspectives into the curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2020

It probably means you’re not regularly talking with them about current events and they’re not getting a good education about American history in school. We teach our children every day to help them navigate the communities they live in. Early on, we teach them not to play with electrical outlets and to be careful near the stove.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 26, 2024

or remove beyond the Missisipi [sic]”—or, if Natives attacked white Americans, the Natives should be forcibly driven “across the Missisipi, as the only condition of peace.” The post Effects of the Louisiana Purchase|March 26, 1804 appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. Teaching Stories Teachers who received the hardback edition have shared their appreciation and teaching stories, including those below.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The political and social climate on some campuses has gotten so bad that colleges have to teach their students how to have a conversation. I teach history and social studies at New York University. Jon: Katherine Cramer teaches political science at Wisconsin. Jon: This is where we are, Kirk. I’m a historian.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Maitland Jones lost his job teaching organic chemistry at New York University after students signed a petition saying his course was too hard. You know, I’m an old timer, and I believe that there is value in, well, humanities, and a humanistic approach to teaching science. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

The Forum did hold presentations at the time about textbooks and preserving a Christian, Western view of American history. Members remember discussing social issues, though not necessarily Alabama history or Norrell’s book in particular, and dispute a characterization that Norrell was targeted by the founder of Birmingham’s chapter.

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History K-12 Library Social Studies 105

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As the new school year began this fall, battles around vaccine and mask mandates raged, school boards took up the thorny issue of how to teach students about race and Congress argued about how much to spend on children (and everything else). Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Fourth graders got to have their traditional field day. Steven Weber, associate superintendent for teaching and learning at Fayetteville Public Schools. The students are adjusting.

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Oral History History High School Public School 121

Teaching American History

OCTOBER 29, 2024

From secretaries of state to ballot counters, from faithful electors to congressional clerks, from election day to the certification of each state’s electoral votes, these Americans will carry on our tradition of free and fair presidential elections.

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Government American History History Tradition 97

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

history, I have had a growing unease in recent years about the relevance of my vocation. history teachers spend a lot of time and teaching energy focusing on the nation’s shortcomings — and for good reasons. Jim Cullen teaches history in the newly established upper division at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut.

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History Civics American History Library 129

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

She says she is deeply committed to computer-assisted teaching because it gives students with limited tech experience exposure to digital tools. It also allows her to teach students who arrive in her classroom with vastly different skill levels. District teachers such as Mallory Mattivi agree. But computers are expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2020

For much of American history, it was against the law to teach blacks how to read and write. He spent six years teaching in charter schools in Camden, New Jersey. Census data show that 70 percent of U.S. school counselors are white. (In The doctrine of separate but equal made segregation the law of the land.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Even though I personally do not like teaching virtually, seeing them still enjoy learning, even in what I think is a god awful way of learning, seeing them happy to learn this way, I think, ‘If you are happy, I am happy.’ Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School.

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