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AUGUST 2, 2023

Here are the 17 words from Florida’s new social studies guidelines that lit a fire under much of America, on every side of the debate: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” In comments that surfaced in 2011, Florida State Rep.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. The district adopted a Black Historical Consciousness framework created by LaGarrett King, founder and director of the Center for K–12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the University of Buffalo. On the Wednesday following the A.P.

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JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Genes may not pass on white supremacy, but education policies certainly do. In 2011, South Carolina established academic standards for what students should learn in social studies classes, including “the economic necessity of slave labor.”. That’s horrific enough.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

But in this county of fewer than 19,000 residents, just 38 percent of recent high school graduates sought more education, according to the latest available data from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. That’s well below the statewide rate of 55 percent.

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APRIL 21, 2019

The students in the class, “Your Brain on School,” will explore how the brain learns, then will survey their peers about learning environments at their own school and make school policy recommendations. It’s a new innovation lab that combines two different disciplines — social studies and math.

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JUNE 10, 2017

By 2021, schools must offer diplomas based students reaching proficiency in the four core academic subject areas: English, math, science and social studies. By 2025, four additional subject areas will be included: a second language, the arts, health and physical education.

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MAY 30, 2018

Faith Boninger, a researcher at the National Education Policy Center in Boulder, Colorado, pointed out that while students can learn basic concepts from personalized learning software, it’s isolated learning. They need teachers to present multiple ways of understanding one concept.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

When Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’ running mate earlier this month, his ascendancy helped to elevate the idea of educators serving in public office. is a high school alternative education and social studies teacher in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. to serve as vice president of the United States.

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APRIL 12, 2023

Stephanie Hawk, tribal state policy liaison, NIEA The state’s executive order has caused confusion among teachers who taught Native American history and culture using the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings, said Roquel Gorneau, a South Dakota education specialist for the Lower Brule and Crow Creek Sioux Tribes. “A

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Related: Inside an ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Nationally, takeovers are relatively rare: Between 1988 and 2016, states took control of 114 school districts, about four per year. We are not what they’re saying we are,’” said former Wheatley social studies teacher Kendra Yarbrough-Camarena.

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MARCH 28, 2022

There was always a group or two that wanted [social studies books] to stay as we had had it previously,” said Ed Richardson, who led the state department of education at the time. “No It’s not the first time Alabama officials, educators, parents and politicians have battled over school textbooks and how to discuss history.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

We think the market is infinite,” said Mary Gifford, senior vice president of education policy and academic affairs at K12 Inc., Advocates believe that the programs have the potential to appeal to all students, even those who would never consider leaving their local schools or don’t have the option of a charter school. “We

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