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4QM & Civics: Question Two Helps Civic Discourse

4QM Teaching

When we do a full Question Two inquiry lab in the classroom we usually work from primary source documents, especially in the upper grades. Whatever the source, the 4QM interpretation process has three steps. How does the source itself support these interpretations? What was their goal?

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

Related: Can we trace the roots of Charlottesville to school segregation? The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Twenty-five teachers will be selected to attend.

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How teachers can talk about the Israel-Hamas conflict

The Hechinger Report

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Immediately following the Saturday, Oct. We will have had this meaningful scholarly discussion that’s based in history and primary sources,” she said.

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Any educational reform that ignores segregation is doomed to failure

The Hechinger Report

Wealthier neighborhoods to hoard wealth and maintain a racially separate school system through a financial structure based on property taxes. Local school districts rely heavily on the revenue that comes from local property taxes, creating funding disparities between rich and poor districts. This is a civil rights issue.”