ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Three young trees stood in a schoolyard, their branches reaching out for the sun, casting stripes of shade on the newly seeded grass below. With each passing day, two of them grew stronger, taller, thicker. Their deep roots built pathways that strengthened their foundation to grow. Yet while two of the young trees flourished, one did not. One young tree felt farther and farther from the sun as her peers grew stronger around her.

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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! Seriously, that’s because we believe the best way to learn about American history and government is by bringing the words of those who lived it into the classroom.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Zachary Jackson thinks a lot about what his students may be learning from him in class. For some of his first graders in Atlanta, that goes beyond the actual academic lessons. They are also practicing how to be a man. For Jackson, the question of how to model manhood is an obsession, something he thinks about all the time. He’s worked with kids since 2018 through Wings for Kids, a nonprofit that operates after-school programs in Georgia and South Carolina.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Project Title: No Money, No Problem? A Study of Money, Social Capital, and Electoral Success of Women State Legislative Candidates Across Racial/Ethnic Groups Kenicia Wright, Arizona State University Kenicia Wright is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Dr. Wright studies how representation and policy outcomes are influenced by social identities, such as race/ethnicity, gender, and class.

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K-12 Global Studies Political Science Research 51

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on the greatest challenge of all: Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. You’ll be training for at least a year, slowly building up your endurance. Climbing Everest involves hiking for many hours per day, every day, for several weeks.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Brittany Pryor Jones recently completed her MSc in social research at Birkbeck, University of London. Her master’s dissertation project focused on the effects of co-ethnic bias on the support of the second amendment amongst southern Americans. The research project used quantitative data analysis to evaluate the effects of implicit attitudes formed through shared ethnicity on southern American’s perspective of current gun policy.

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