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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

The next day, we dove into the document analysis activity compiled by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. After going over key terms and background information (as suggested by Wolfe-Rocca in the PDF version of the activity), I arranged my students in groups of four and they investigated six of the included documents.

History 52
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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, according to documents published by WHYY shortly after the election, school administrators were imposing new restrictions. According to the civil rights complaint, some Black students had grown so accustomed to hearing the N-word that they said they stopped responding unless the language was directed at them personally.

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Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies?

The Hechinger Report

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. Conservatives tend to believe there are core dates and documents that students must be acquainted with to participate fully in American democracy.