Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

One of the biggest challenges in history education is engaging students in meaningful analysis while encouraging collaboration and critical thinking. Across Disciplines: How did technology and economics impact migration?

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Primary Sources History Critical Thinking History Education 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Our education system is failing to educate the next generation to face the challenges of our times. To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. We are not setting our children up for success.

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Civics Education Critical Thinking History 124

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Without a doubt we would be living on Pinterest since it has dozens of pinboards – and tens of thousands of pins – related to history , including awesome resource sets from the Stanford History Education Group. I could garner ideas from the City University of New York’s American Social History Project.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

This year, from Seattle, Washington, to Miami, Florida, and many towns and cities in between, educators will host more than 170 grassroots events on Saturday, June 8 and throughout the month. It is important to understand] the concept of how you suppress people to exploit them economically. I was teaching for critical thinking.

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Teaching Social Justice Library Heritage 86

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

—Breck Foster High School Social Studies Teacher, Lake Oswego, Oregon Last year was my first year teaching World History and I was in need of high quality simulations to help my students understand and engage their critical thinking. At the conclusion of the game, we hold a discussion on how the game went.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. Educators know that when students engage in lessons, it helps them improve their focus and take more ownership of their learning. million to $23 million as grants available to states.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Civics K-12 Geography 52

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Challenge Antisemitism Given the rise of antisemitism in the United States, as well as the frequent conflation of criticism of Israel with antisemitism, we share the following resources on dismantling antisemitism from a framework of collective liberation.

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Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52