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Strengthening Civic Education: The Role of High-Quality Curriculum and Teaching Strategies

TCI

Put more emphasis on writing, argumentation, problem analysis, and making connections between core content and current events. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 million to $23 million as grants available to states.

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How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

The Hechinger Report

history, education leaders have started to reckon with how to comprehensively teach history with an antiracism lens. Colleges are holding professional development online events for educators on how to reimagine education with racial justice in mind. Katie Cryan Leary, principal, Magnolia Elementary, Seattle.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

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. And so on… .

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Oral History of Forgottonia: Building a Public History Project in Rural Western Illinois

NCHE

But I believe that by allowing students to follow their own curiosity about our local history–whether this means something good or something less flattering–I am allowing them a stake in the future development of our community. In a sense, our audience was not a traditional audience but also community partners themselves.

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STUDENT VOICE: Here’s how to make history come alive: Watch movies in class

The Hechinger Report

It was “ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark ” that educated me on the real-life effects of the military drafts during the Vietnam War. “ I’ve been raised in a culture that celebrates motion pictures but fails to deploy their power in classrooms. Related: What do classroom conversations about race, identity and history really look like?

History 86
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OPINION: The wrong roadmap for teaching American history

The Hechinger Report

This is particularly true for learning our history. To understand America today requires examining the major events in our past that define our national character (for good or for ill). Indeed, the local Civic Learning Plans its supporters propose would just further fragment the history our students learn. citizenship exam.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

History I strive to make sure my students understand that so many of the events in “history” were not that long ago, and so much of what has happened in our nation continues to shape what happens today. I think it is important that the categories include culture, music and family. This lesson helped provide both and more.

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