Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. ” Ms.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The basal regions—the parts responsible for basic survival instincts—still govern fundamental behaviors such as territorialism, reproduction, and fight-or-flight responses. History provides ample evidence of this dynamic. Pantheon Books. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13391

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.”

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 13, 2024

We were sad to learn last week that Mike Bisenius , a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program, has passed away after a brief, intense illness. Last fall we ran a story about Mike, who’d been named 2023 North Dakota History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Foundation.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 23, 2025

52 years ago, Philip Larkin was commissioned to write a prologue to a UK government report, How Do You Want To Live? Therell be books; it will linger on In galleries; but all that remains For us will be concrete and tyres. This is from a piece by Bill Scott of the University of Bath. HMSO, 1972). Most things are never meant.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2025

The modern scientific concept of solidarity is frequently traced to the French sociologist mile Durkheim, who, in his seminal 1893 book The Division of Labour in Society , distinguished between mechanical and organic solidarity. Durkeim investigated mechanical solidarity not by reading history, but by reading ethnographies.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

They are rallying to defend the right to teach truthfully, to protest book bans, and to defend LGBTQ+ rights. Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. There is also Decoration Day. Source: Alamy.In

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher. The books are archived here.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is also a Research Associate at the Center on the Politics of Development at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow at the Governance and Local Development Institute.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. million book images from the Internet Archive. .

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. Professor Dunn’s first book, Complex Justice (2008), examines the 1995 case of Missouri v.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. While I share their nostalgia for a time in the history of public education when that might have been true, the damning performance by the nation’s 12th graders in U.S.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This process is often not straightforward and indeed medicine has changed its mind over history as to what the aetiologies (causes) of various diseases are and even as to what the body looks like. Throughout most of history this interaction is what doctors have based their diagnosis and treatment pop. Armstrong, D. Foucault, M.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 5, 2024

We offer free lessons for these fabulous books. Let us know how you use any of the lessons and we’ll send you a people’s history book in appreciation. We feature lessons and discussion questions to connect students to the critical wisdom contained in this book. Listen to a conversation we hosted with Smith about his book.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

The authors of the report observed that there seemed to be a spillover effect from states that have passed new laws restricting topics like race and gender, to states where no such laws are on the books. Related: How do we teach Black history in polarized times? I just wanted to hit my books, get my degree,” she recalled.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Consider the NHRC’s use of the phrase “licit and illicit” in principle 1.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

The three countries share more than a common language: For several decades, their governments forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families and relocated them to distant boarding schools. This is the one area left in the federal government, unfortunately, that is very much bipartisan,” she said of Native American issues.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The latest book by geography teacher Richard Bustin was published by Crown House Publishing in October 2024. It is an extension of the work carried out by Richard for his PhD, and a previous book published by Springer Nature. All of these are referenced in the book. Part 1 of the book is called Theory.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Questions about what we can learn from the history of education are familiar to Larry Cuban, a longtime education historian and school reformer. He looks back over nearly a century of change in his new book, “Confessions of a School Reformer.” EdSurge: I’m curious about your book’s title, “Confessions of a School Reformer.”

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2022

History indicates that violence is a tool of white supremacy: From the slaughtering of Native Americans to the lynching of Black Americans in the Jim Crow era , racial violence has been used to defend the status quo of white supremacy and racism in the U.S. racism and global colonization. There is only one way: teaching anti-racism.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school. He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history. I received lots of compliments from teachers and students.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

So our reporters and editors have been reflecting on the articles, books and podcasts that have resonated with us most this year and we’re sharing them with you. Reporters made an eye-popping 600 public information requests to school districts in their efforts to find out which books were coming under scrutiny. Do you love history?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

I was always eager for a new book, a new word, a new understanding, a new connection, a new… knowing. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. I first learned how the government weaponized literacy when I was a child. I’ve loved literature since I was a little girl.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

Many found a way to continue their studies through informal tutoring centers, but those too have come under increased scrutiny as the government continues to crack down on women and girls’ access to education. He even brought me very good motivational books to read and try, such as “Atomic Habits” and “The Power of Habit.”

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

From the academic perspective, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the United States defines the study of public administration as "A program that prepares individuals to serve as managers in the executive arm of local, state, and federal government and that focuses on the systematic study of executive organization and management.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

I understand how the dysfunction of the federal government in the early stages of the pandemic crippled states and localities and their ability to respond. I miss meeting kids from all over the city. I’m tired of staring at a computer screen in my room for the entire day, every weekday, for the better part of a year. Give us some leadership.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Tuesday Lesson Link Our focus for the day was colonial government, diving into how the colonies were left to create their own systems under England’s “salutary neglect.” This was my attempt to help them visualize how the government was structured differently on either side of the Atlantic.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

Hershovitz, who has two young children of his own, highlights the philosophical potential of youngsters in his book, “Nasty, Brutish and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids.” The book ends up being a playful way to explore big philosophical issues, regarding justice, authority and language. And Rex isn't uncommon.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This workshop invites applications from scholars studying the history and politics of labor, finance and corporations, racial capitalism, political ecology, economic regulation and the fiscal state. Apply to a Virtual Research Group Workshop here. Deadline: Friday, February 14, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A student reading a book in a first grade classroom. Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. It took state and local governments seven years to restore their tax bases, muster the political will to approve spending increases and send the money to schools. We couldn’t have enough help.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, the Clark County School District in Nevada has been spending more than $18 million per year on their school police department, and the federal government has given the district money for bulletproof vests. Many of us are in schools that feel like jails. Clark County is similar to many school districts across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Artwork decorates the government-run nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. The project, published in September as a book called “The Early Advantage: Early Childhood Systems that Lead by Example,” takes a deep look at services for young children in Australia, England, Finland, Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums. Related: How the science of vaccination is taught (or not) in U.S. If you think that, try to find resources about it.

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