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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.

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The Role of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Making Education Available to All

A Principal's Reflections

OER ranges from highly structured college courses (MOOCs) to less structured curricula from colleges and other institutes of learning (OpenCourseWare a/k/a OCW), to free online textbooks, and everything in between. I work in K-12 education, Nicole with college students, and Philipp primarily with adult learners.

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The habits of 7 highly effective schools

The Hechinger Report

TNTP , a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently. Everybody is trying to find ways to help students catch up after the pandemic.

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Schools on a screen: One tech-savvy school district has lessons for others going online

The Hechinger Report

He’s 89 years old, so this is the way to archive a community member,” Appelbaum said. Since 2017, students in Mineola have been introduced to coding through unplugged classes in pre-K, and by first grade, have been allowed to take the devices home. Pre-K student Elena Wagner earned a badge for knowing her ABCs.

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Teach the Struggle for Voting Rights

Zinn Education Project

” By Jim Peppler, Alabama Department of Archives and History A unit with three lessons by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca provides essential historical context for today’s struggle against voter suppression and for voting rights. Below are resources for teaching about voting rights. Voting Rights Unit Who Gets to Vote?

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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

The Hechinger Report

Using nationwide data from the Stanford Education Data Archive , the Civil Rights Data Collection and Project Implicit ’s white-Black implicit association test (IAT), we examined teachers’ racial biases and Black-white educational disparities.

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OPINION: Singing in the parking lot, and other pandemic strategies for music students

The Hechinger Report

Public and private K-12 schools are finding new ways to keep music teaching alive because they have to, said Johnathan Vest, a Tennessee music teacher. Many are then archived on Oberlin Stage Left on Demand and on Oberlin Backstage Pass, where the composer Viet Cuong’s “Electric Aroma (a most disagreeable noise) ” can be found.

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