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Teaching American History
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Amy Livingston never expected to find a vocation in teaching America’s story. She never expected to teach at all. When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
I regularly offer a course at my university called Teaching the Holocaust: History and Memory. Others separate out Israel as a legal issue or a human rights issue. Good teachers, however, know how to manage fraught conversations by grounding them in facts, allowing students to debate and teaching students to disagree respectfully.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2024
million people , about 82 percent of whom are of Norwegian ancestry, across a space roughly the size of Montana. Programs must be rooted in values including forgiveness, equality, solidarity and respect for human worth. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report To be sure, there are important contexts behind each country’s approach.
Sapiens
OCTOBER 2, 2024
schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. On the bus, Lewontin turned his attention to humans. His results have been replicated time and again over the last 50 years, as datasets have ballooned from a handful of proteins to hundreds of thousands of human genomes.
Anthropology News
MARCH 28, 2025
Foreign residents and Japanese of mixed ancestry try to pass as Japanese to avoid the stigma of being a foreigner. Hamza attributed hisdifficultyin securing a teaching job to Japanese assumptions about race and ethnicity: In Japan,there isa kind of complex that only whites andWesterners can be nativeEnglishspeakers. It was a struggle.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 29, 2020
CASABLANCA, Morocco — I grew up with a Black father of Puerto Rican and Caribbean ancestry and a white mother, in an overwhelmingly white area of Western New York. If human prejudice runs that deeply in Americans and those trusted to protect and serve us, we still have a lot of work to do. I am used to standing out.
Anthropology News
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Remaining also are the human stories of those harmed by racism. Now comes the AAAs second public education project: Understanding Migration , and another fantastic exhibition called World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration. They have much to teach us and the world about this topic. And maybe they never did.
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