Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up. KELLEN ZENG.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. has fully acknowledged its long history of using education as a weapon against tribes. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to. I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. While Logan’s work revealed the plants Banda residents ate, other research reconstructed the region’s broader environmental history.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Amid the oppressive heat, an idea emerged, one that later evolved into a children’s picture book. Fifteen students specializing in traditional handicrafts collaborated with local artisans to illustrate a children’s book. Upon the book’s release, in addition to distribution in bookstores, we are planning special book events in Iran.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 23, 2024

In the vast tapestry of human history, certain discoveries emerge as seismic shifts, reshaping our understanding of our origins and the paths we've traversed. As anthropologists and linguists embark on a voyage of discovery, Mithen's magnum opus stands as a beacon illuminating the path toward a deeper understanding of our linguistic heritage.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

Tan Huynh and Beth Skelton, two educators who have had decades of experience working with English learners, have written a new book called Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ). and isn’t even fluent in their heritage language, this can be heartbreaking. You’re pulled out.

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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As I walk down my hallways, I gaze at my students’ Black History Month posters that cover the walls and I realize how I’ve changed since my early years. But as I walk by these images, I wonder how the fresh-faced teacher who promised to never “teach” Black History Month has now decorated the whole school with Black images.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Jaisalmer, India — Once a year, history lecturer Vijay Kumar Ballani and his colleagues go door-to-door in this rural village, imploring parents to send their children to a cinderblock complex that lacks classroom space, bathrooms and desks. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. He gives the same stock speech. With over 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 18, 2024

Though unmarked by commemorative plaques, the pitches have become a vast footballing heritage site: the “utopia,” as founder of Hackney Wick Football Club Bobby Kasanga has put it , “of grassroots football.” Hundreds of players from diverse working-class communities across London still flock there each weekend, though.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

Credit : Universal History Archive / Getty Images) And that’s not all that’s wrong with this map. Al-Idrisi’s main achievement, a huge atlas known as the Book of Roger , would remain authoritative for hundreds of years. Map of the Indian Ocean, from al-Idrisi’s Book of Roger. For starters, you’re seeing it upside-down.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

Here’s a link to order the book associated with the study. Note: a print copy of the book costs $31. In my own teacher training many years ago, I took various courses in curriculum theory, classroom management, education history and educational psychology along with content-based courses like political science, economics and history.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. We all have some history. Kate Brown announced the introduction of a statewide grant fund.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb.

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Sapiens

JUNE 17, 2024

Archives often render marginalized people’s histories invisible. See anthropologist Stacey Langwick ’s book, Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania.) call on them, it is the branches that respond only they know how to undo the spell: where rot and pus have crept too close to tissue.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

Credit : Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) This is by design. On one of those hunting trips, The Secret History of the Mongols tells the story of Genghis Khan resting under a tree, exclaiming: “What a beautiful view. The mountain was of great spiritual importance in his formative years, and thereafter.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Herrington honored his heritage by carrying six eagle feathers, a braid of sweet grass, two arrowheads, and the Chickasaw Nation’s flag into space. ” She wrote a book on her experiences, titled, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear which discusses this desire to combine Navajo healing philosophies with western medicine.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

We also do poetry and book excerpts. So, if I was going to make, develop an op-ed around Native American history and culture I’ve written books, received grants and so on, I’m well prepared to make that argument. The secret door to the 15th century alchemist’s lab KRAEckD open with a twist of a book on a shelf.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a nod to the cultural heritage of its surrounding neighborhood, two displays feature Chinese-themed art, including pretty sprays of cherry blossoms and red and gold lanterns. Today’s book is “Count on the Subway,” and the children are captivated, hands shooting up, faces pleading to be called on. “I’ve

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

Celebrity author Hancock has made a fortune writing sensationalized books that claim a “lost” ice age civilization once existed—without any direct evidence for this society. Pseudoarchaeology, or “alternative history,” draws major attention and casts itself as legitimate. believe in lost civilizations or ancient aliens.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Science of Happiness: This book explores scientific insights into happiness and well-being, backed by research in positive psychology. In Our Time This podcast teaches you a bit more about the history of scientific thought, as well as history, religion, and culture.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. The Making of Asian America: A History." who are not white. and in its schools. Jung Kim, Ph.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Meanwhile, some tribal communities have already forged ahead with new school partnerships to reclaim and restore their heritage languages, which could serve as models for the White House effort. “In

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

Websites like We Need Diverse Books and Diverse Book Finder are great places to start. “And the reality is that the Arab heritage and the Arab culture is something that is across content areas. When we really interrogate curriculum in most schools, we often see a conflation of Arab and Muslim identities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The history of the Amigos School, a dual-language program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, shows that even seemingly minor changes to admissions processes can significantly shape how a school is perceived — and who applies — tilting preference toward privilege.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you study Blackness in a place that denies its local history of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black structural violence? One of the challenges we face as African Norwegians is that our history in the country we have come to call home often is not well known, both within and outside our communities. As we’ve always done.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

My own understanding of school choice has been heavily informed by Diane Ravitch’s 2013 book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. It’s been over a decade since I read Ravitch’s book, and the question of school choice is still being tossed around.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 1926, he originated the celebration of Black History Week and is the author of 16 books about African Americans. Last year Vice President Mike Pence commemorated the start of Black History Month (BLM) by acknowledging Abraham Lincoln, a white man, for submitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

There were over 4,000 instances of book bans in the first half of this school year, according to PEN America’s April 2024 report, Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis. Eleven individuals are driving the overwhelming majority of book challenges according to a Washington Post analysis. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Last year Vice President Mike Pence commemorated the start of Black History Month (BLM) by acknowledging Abraham Lincoln, a white man, for submitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. It’s obvious that black history is needed all year long. It was a sign of things to come. Racism is taught.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. The Bradley Foundation ( a longtime supporter of author and columnist Charles Murray , whose infamous 1994 book, “The Bell Curve,” calls for the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Across the country, state legislatures have passed bills to ban “age-inappropriate” books from schools, in many cases subjecting teachers and school librarians to criminal charges for possession of such books. Having books by, about and for LGBTQ+ students, she said, “does not mean we are out there promoting it.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The number of books banned in public schools over the past year skyrocketed to more than 10,000, with two states — Iowa and Florida — responsible for most of them, according to preliminary findings released by PEN America on Monday. Books with LGBTQ+ or racial themes or characters from marginalized groups also continue to be targeted.

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