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OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools

The Hechinger Report

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? The report, released in May during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, surveyed over 5,000 Americans from diverse backgrounds and includes findings about Asian American stereotypes, visibility and acceptance. There are signs of progress.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

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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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

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Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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OPINION: How a new generation of students are responding to Black America’s echoes

The Hechinger Report

My former high school students in rural Arkansas now teach at the schools they attended during their childhoods, in the same political conditions of Blackness in which I taught them in my civics class in 2014, as they tried to process the Ferguson, Missouri, police killing of Mike Brown , a man they had never met but who looked like them.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!” Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. Czarnecki says.

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Connecting Local Communities to Paleoanthropology in Kenya

Sapiens

On Rusinga Island, a grassroots group is celebrating the field assistants who helped find famous fossils and inspiring future generations to study science and ancient history. The group shares information about the islands ancient history and the role of local collaborators in discovering that heritage.

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John Thompson: Ryan Walters Appoints Extremists to Revise Oklahoma Social Studies Curriculum

Diane Ravitch

John Thompson writes: KOSU’s Beth Wallace reports that the Executive Review Committee assembled by Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters features prominent conservatives, including Dennis Prager of PragerU , David Barton of the Christian Nationalist organization, Wallbuilders , and the president of the Heritage Foundation , Kevin Roberts.”