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OPINION: How best do we teach kids about Holocaust horrors? Show them what it was like

The Hechinger Report

Standing in a recreated virtual space helps users learn something qualitatively different from simply looking at a photograph, reading primary source material or listening to survivor testimony. Michael Haley Goldman is the director of Future Projects at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Why Our Students Aren’t (and Can’t Be) Historians

4QM Teaching

That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. In other words, that’s what they expected to see in a high-functioning social studies class. Question Two) — is most appropriately addressed by interpreting primary sources. Plan it out. Story first!

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Call for Applications: 2024-2025 Hellenic Research Fellowship Program

Society for Classical Studies

Currently numbering over 80,000 volumes and 500 linear feet of personal papers and institutional archives, it comprises a large circulating book collection, journal holdings, electronic resources, non-print media, rare books, archival materials, art, and artifacts.