ASHP CML

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment. This week, researcher Carli Snyder shares a primary source.

Primary Sources 40

Primary Sources History Education History Research 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

That conclusion is a marked contrast to Florida’s recently approved and controversial African-American history standards. Critics say that document minimizes slavery through such standards as requiring students to learn how “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

History 108

History American History Ancestry Pedagogy 108

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

With thousands of teachers using Zinn Education Project lessons each year, we hear amazing stories about the impact these lessons have in the classroom. History students. The next day, we dove into the document analysis activity compiled by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. History I and II to 10th and 11th graders, respectively.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

ASHP CML

MARCH 3, 2025

The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment. This week, administrator and multimedia producer David Scheckel shares a primary source.

Primary Sources 40

Primary Sources Archiving American History Government 40

ASHP CML

MARCH 28, 2025

The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment. ASHP Executive Director, Annie Valk, fills in some of the history of the U.S. and Greenland.

Primary Sources 40

Primary Sources History Economics History Education 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

All of this reached a boiling point last April, when Pennridge hired a brand-new consultancy firm called Vermilion Education. Its “ 1776 Curriculum ” for grades K-12 has been criticized for revisionist history, including whitewashed accounts of US slavery and depictions of Jamestown as a failed communist colony.

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. While many education groups provide resources for teaching about the crisis as a “conflict” rooted in antisemitism and Islamophobia, that sole emphasis is misleading. As educators, we must help our students make historical explanations for today’s violence.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

ASHP CML

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment. ASHP Executive Director, Annie Valk, volunteered to start off.

Primary Sources 40

Primary Sources History History Education Humanities 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

As Chris Tims, a high school teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, sees it, history education is about teaching students to synthesize diverse perspectives on the nation’s complicated past. Now, a group of prominent academics and educators is pitching what they hope will be a way forward for the field. Education Department.

Social Studies 126

Social Studies Civics History American History 126