Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Why is Lincolns Fragment on the Constitution and Union one of our favorite documents? This document is short enough to be used in younger classrooms, but its profound enough to be worth discussing with older students as well. The Constitution is the silver frame around the more important document from our Founding.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.”

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 14, 2024

So, students must have lessons that focus on teaching the election. Thankfully, teaching the election will be a fun, exciting, and motivational process with The Political Socialization Lesson , Campaign Finance Lesson , and Electoral College Lesson ! Teaching the Electoral Process The electoral process is a cornerstone of a democracy.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Lincoln’s notes are preserved in a document historians call the Fragment on the Constitution and Union. The Constitution was not a pro-slavery document. For more classroom-ready Lincoln documents, please see our CDC volume, Abraham Lincoln , available for purchase or download from our bookstore. Berger, Anthony.

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Passion for Social Studies

MARCH 31, 2024

Thankfully, the branches of government all have essential yet distinct roles. When teaching the Judicial Branch, the perfect resources are ready! However, the documents are editable to fit the needs and time of every classroom. Teachers can also edit documents to ensure the specifications meet their classroom needs.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 15, 2025

For todays blog, we are highlighting a document that helps students intersect two of the most historically important elements of the 1960s: the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Read the entire document, our scholarly introduction, and discussion questions here. December 6, 1963. National Archives.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Even though the USs largest political party by far is independents, Democrats and Republicans influence everything about how government in the US operates. Thats why its essential to cover them in your high school Civics & Government class. This makes these large documents much more manageable. Its just a fact.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. Primary sources include: Personal correspondence and diaries Government and civil documents Speeches and oral histories Audio and video recordings Photographs and posters Unfortunately, most textbooks provide just facts and figures, not an immersive experience.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Image credit: [link] A Biology Teacher’s Thoughts on Critical Literacy by Lynne Torpie Science teachers can tend to be myopic, focusing on acquiring content detail and teaching the steps of the scientific method instead of fostering the investigative, critical thinking and written communication skills that embody real-world scientific endeavors.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

The solution, one that has strong bipartisan support, is as prominent as John Hancocks signature: a generational investment in teaching students how the government works. When it comes to civics, the federal government usually plays a limited role, reasonably restricted from imposing a national curriculum. Former U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When my 8-year-old started asking questions about the world, it hit me that there wasn’t a lot out there to guide parents in teaching their kids about being active, engaged citizens. Scores on Advanced Placement government tests are consistently among the lowest across all AP offerings. School curricula on civics often fall short.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Teaching American History is excited to announce the release of our latest core document volume, the second edition of Free Speech. Although “Congress” alone is mentioned, the First Amendment applies to any agent of the national government, including the president. Sample Documents Schenck v. United States , 1919 Near v.

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Moler's Musing

APRIL 30, 2025

Students question the bot like they would a biased newspaper article, a government document, or a historical speech. More accurate? More complete? Would you use this response? This turns AI into the text not the shortcut. Why Fray-I works: It puts students in the drivers seat. Theyre not copyingtheyre critiquing.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Use Classroom Management Platforms and Other Tools to Overcome Barriers in Learning a Language contributed by Al Kingsley, CEO of NetSupport Teaching a language, whether for ESL students or those learning something new like French or Spanish requires largely the same teaching skills as any other subject. Challenge No. Challenge No.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 8, 2025

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar. The post Preparing for a One-Day Seminar appeared first on Teaching American History.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

The three countries share more than a common language: For several decades, their governments forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families and relocated them to distant boarding schools. This is the one area left in the federal government, unfortunately, that is very much bipartisan,” she said of Native American issues.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts. government as well.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 19, 2024

Teaching American History’s Documents and Debates volumes present s American history as a series of topics. Below is a sampling of topics from Documents & Debates, v.2. Documents include Lincoln’s Second Inaugural , Douglass’ “ Reconstruction ,” and Tillman’s Speech in the Senate. It was upheld by the Supreme Court.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

So he felt frustrated, isolated: “I am stranded on this desert island because that site doesn't work [with my screen reader],” Jacob later told a researcher , also adding, “You can't just re-change your whole teaching plan, especially when you've distributed it.” But there’s a push to change that. It will mean they have to act fast.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Still, to paraphrase a famous campaign slogan from the 1990s, for TAH, it’s the documents, stupid!

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Teaching the different forms of government seems easy enough – go over some definitions and provide examples, then quiz your students. Below is my dig-deeper lesson sequence for teaching the different types of government in my on-level Civics class. What are the Main Types of Government?

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Discussion of primary documents. During the seminar, the teachers discuss primary documents on the seminar topic with the guidance of a scholar, who acts as the seminar leader. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. Historic locations. Click here.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 29, 2025

But instead of dwelling on the hard-fought victory, Lincoln spent the bulk of his speech outlining his approach to the next difficult task: returning the lately rebellious states to their pre-war status as participants in the democratic governance of the nation. The occasion was unprecedented and posed numerous practical difficulties.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Amanda Bryan excepted today’s blog from our Core Documents volume, Political Parties , edited by Eric Sands. This would be especially true in the case of unified government where loyalty to party might come to interfere with the system of checks and balances. Download the volume in our bookstore today.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

The teaching profession, according to CNN in early 2022, was “in crisis.” But education researchers who study the teaching profession say the threat is exaggerated. 4, 2022 and found that each school, on average, had about three unfilled teaching openings in June 2022. Teaching students with disabilities is a hard job.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 The results for each program are hidden in pages 55 through 64 of a separate appendices document , but I have created a pdf of them for you. WWC refers to the What Works Clearinghouse, a library of evidence-based teaching practices.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. Lindblom based it on a summer seminar she attended in the early 2000s: the Presidential Academy, a forerunner of Teaching American History’s current programs.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To celebrate Bill of Rights Day, we offer below a condensed version of the introduction to the Bill of Rights core document volume, available, as are all the document volumes, in the TAH bookstore. References to documents in parentheses are the documents in the Bill of Rights volume.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Government and Politics curriculum. Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. Students had to document their learning process as they added their ideas and built a device.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Despite headlines about teacher shortages and a workforce that must become more diversified, recent federal regulations and a decade of policy has focused on the quality of teaching and teacher preparation to ensure that all teachers are ready to teach and meet high standards of performance from Day One.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. She also pursues her own research.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

One report documented that U.S. Does a sixth-grade teacher have the same skills and tools to teach reading that a second or third grade teacher does? This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. I doubt that’s the case.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post As an adjunct faculty member at a Canadian university, Jassim has four teaching assistants to help him grade assignments and answer questions. He has a multiyear contract and can typically pick the subjects that he teaches. He makes the equivalent of about $7,000 per course, per term.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

As a reminder, the opposite of standardized tests are bespoke assessments: teacher-designed individual assessments for every one of their students every time they want to document their learning. As an example of what that entails, consider the More Teaching Less Testing Act from NY Representative Jamaal Bowman. Teaching Machines.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me. This isn’t a novel idea.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. That’s more than four times greater. Why the discrepancy?

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