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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

We talked about the economic impact of slavery to go from being money to trying to catch up with everyone else, who was given that opportunity of reaching this ‘American dream,’ and having 300-400 years of being someone else’s money.” “I don’t know how you really cherry-pick what you’d like to cover in an AP class.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

Karen Brink-Noonan Middle School Social Studies Teacher, Valatie, New York I have used the Thingamabob Game in both my economics class and my U.S. history with my 11th-grade students, we began the year by corroborating Columbus’s story and used texts from A Young People’s History , traditional textbooks, videos, and other primary sources.

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