Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

You can’t skip the slavery unit, or you can’t think to skip Harriet Jacobs’ primary source of her narratives of a slave girl, where she’s talking about being sexually harassed by slaveholder,” she said. Samuels/ The Hechinger Report “We teach factual stuff that has been documented in history,” Allison said. “Is

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History American History Teaching K-12 98

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Riots, Racism, and the Police A lesson uses primary source documents to teach the long trajectory of police violence in Black communities. The Truth About Teaching for Equity and Social Justice We reject the universalizing, color-blind posture of these laws and challenge the canard that to acknowledge race is itself racist.

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Social Justice Primary Sources History Civics 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. “It’s important for students to learn about that period, especially as it relates to what is happening today.”.

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