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NCHE Partners with the Library of Congress

NCHE

Eligible applicants can include educational institutions, cultural organizations, historical societies or museums, community or civic groups, libraries, and literacy organizations. These regional grants will help fund projects that expand and explore innovative methods of teaching and learning with Library of Congress materials.

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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

Some of those articles are written for mass-market publications, while others focus on specific topics and outlets ranging from nursing to Black culture to material artifacts. As a result of this recent outpouring, there has never been as much historical writing for non-specialists as there is today.

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Teachers of the Year Say Educators Deserve More Trust

ED Surge

Welch and his colleagues traveled around the mid-Atlantic and used a phone, a small router and a computer to broadcast themselves teaching from historic sites. During a memorable lesson filmed in Washington, D.C.,

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Money makes the difference for kindergarteners in the summer

The Hechinger Report

The poor were less likely to go on cultural outings. For example, only 32 percent of poor kids and 44 percent of “near” poor kids went to an art gallery, a museum or an historical site over the summer. Roughly 40 percent of non-poor kids — middle class and wealthy — attended summer camp.

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APSA’s Summer Rise High School Intern Program: Meet the Cohort

Political Science Now

I feel privileged to have grown up so close to Washington, DC, and I love visiting the numerous museums, galleries, and other cultural and historical sites. Some hobbies I enjoy include reading, baking, hiking, and playing ukulele. The post APSA’s Summer Rise High School Intern Program: Meet the Cohort appeared first on.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

I think it is important that the categories include culture, music and family. They were tasked with coming up with a way to both uncover the hidden histories of a particular place, while also creating a site of remembering that honours true history, and invites learning and community. The selections are short and easily digested.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

She cited the film Black Panther as one example, combining images of various African cultures with advanced technology. Victoria Trice, who teaches the pilot AP African American history course in Jefferson Public Schools, Kentucky Those kinds of discussions also require a supportive school culture and administration, she said.

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