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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

This summer, Creel joined a dozen other teachers from across the state at a weeklong training institute at the state’s Department of Archives and History. The book was valuable for state geography and basic vocabulary, she said, but using it to teach about the Civil Rights Movement was out of the question.

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