Celebrating Black History Education: A Collection
Education Week - Social Studies
JANUARY 30, 2024
This year’s special Education Week Opinion project celebrating Black History Month focuses on what is going well in Black history education.
Labor History Censored on Labor Day
Zinn Education Project
AUGUST 1, 2024
But the right to teach about that labor history is jeopardized by the growing number of “anti-CRT” bills. The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. Article and Lesson This Day in People’s History Below are a few key events in labor history.
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People’s History of Memorial Day
Zinn Education Project
MAY 25, 2024
Memorial Day Massacre Check out the documentary and companion oral history collection, Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried about the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when police in Chicago shot at and gassed a peaceful gathering of striking steelworkers and their supporters, killing 10 people, most of them shot in the back. “The
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Announcing the 2024 Students of History Scholarship Winner
Students of History
MAY 24, 2024
We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education.
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Zinn Education Project
AUGUST 2, 2024
On Monday, September 16, 2024 , historian Kellie Carter Jackson will discuss We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones. She is not afraid to tell you want she thinks, share what she knows, or challenge prevailing wisdom.
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Who’s Improving Black History Education for Everyone? Three Stand-Outs (Opinion)
Education Week - Social Studies
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Recent highlights in Black history education, from the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education’s LaGarrett J.
The Black History That Moves Us: A Resource List for Educators (Opinion)
Education Week - Social Studies
JANUARY 31, 2024
Here are some books, documentaries, websites, and social media accounts to help you teach Black history in all its complexity.
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TEACHER VOICE: Students deserve classroom experiences that reflect their history
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2024
But no matter how the conversation starts, the students — nearly half of whom are Black, Asian, Hispanic or multiracial — often come back to complaints about the lack of diversity in our school’s textbooks and educational materials. Provide educators with the time and training to be culturally responsive teachers.
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Oral History of Forgottonia: Building a Public History Project in Rural Western Illinois
NCHE
APRIL 3, 2023
At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”
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A New Definition For Equity In Education
TeachThought
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Equity In Education: A Definition by Terry Heick In a profession increasingly full of angst and positioning and corrective policy, there are few ideas as easy to get behind as equity. While progress is being made in sub-Saharan Africa in primary education, gender inequality is in fact widening among older children. Equilibrium.
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Most Students Think History Is Boring. Here's How We Change That.
ED Surge
APRIL 3, 2024
With his monotone voice and lack of enthusiasm, he could convince anyone that history is incredibly boring. As a high school history teacher, whenever I meet new adults and we talk about our professions, I often find myself being met with a familiar reaction: "I disliked the subject in school, but now I find it interesting."
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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.
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Update on the GCSE Natural History
Living Geography
JULY 15, 2024
A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog , which now has over 300 posts preparing for some possible involvement in resource creation or support. But natural history, you know, garners a lot of interest. GCSE Podcast with Mary Colwell. From the transcript A subject criteria panel were established.
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People’s History Audiograms
Zinn Education Project
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Each month we learn from people’s history scholars in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes. Heather McGhee on Everyday Solidarity and The Sum of Us Khalil Gibran Muhammad on The Condemnation of Blackness Michael Hines on the Fight for Black History in Schools Blair L. 6, 2023 Dayo Gore on Want to Start a Revolution?
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52 Creativity and Co-Creation Bring Local Asian American, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islander Histories to the Classroom
Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Through a convening of educators and community organizations, new education resources for students spotlight local histories in engaging new formats, telling stories from right in their own backyards
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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right. I was always interested in history. But I did enjoy teaching.
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History Meme Project for Students
Thrive in Grade Five
MARCH 23, 2019
So, I started to consider how I could bring meme-making into my classroom in a meaningful, educational way. The video made me laugh and think about how much the teacher of those students must have inspired a love of history! So, the history meme project was born in my classroom. What are my rules for making history memes?
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We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Much of that had to do with the fact that I was learning about Black histories for the first time. I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history.
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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education
Teaching American History
JULY 30, 2024
Good teachers respond to the needs of the students they seek to educate. Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R.
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Famous Black Scientists Who Made History
Studies Weekly
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Famous Black Scientists Who Made History Feb 8, 2024 • by Studies Weekly Our world would look very different without the scientists who have made breakthroughs in our technology and advanced our understanding of medicine, astronomy, physics, and chemistry. Bouchet was always a strong advocate of science education.
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How the last recession affected higher education. Will history repeat?
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 6, 2020
One of the peculiar things about higher education is that it runs in the opposite direction of the economy. Ironically, funding for education plummeted. There was a well-intended effort by policy makers to use the recession to invest in Americans’ education. Related: Federal data shows 3.9 This strikes me as a sad outcome.
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People’s History Lessons to Fight Voter Suppression
Zinn Education Project
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Equip young people with lessons from history on organizing for voting rights. That is why GOP lawmakers are making it illegal for students to learn from history how to defend voting rights — at the same time they are making it harder to vote. Help us reach more teachers with people’s history lessons on voting rights in 2024.
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Implementing History Book Clubs in Upper Elementary
Thrive in Grade Five
MAY 16, 2019
History Book Clubs are a fantastic way to get your students reading and engaging with history! Do you love teaching history? Do you try to integrate history into your reading block? One Saturday morning, I was at a Scholastic Warehouse Sale and I discovered a full shelf of history-based fiction and nonfiction books.
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Education Week - Social Studies
APRIL 15, 2024
A pilot to infuse Black history and culture in social studies is gaining ground in New York.
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Make History Exciting Again for Students (Opinion)
Education Week - Social Studies
MAY 14, 2024
National History Day seeks to engage young people in deep examination of the past.
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Making Queer History Public Episode 3: Preserving Queer History in Classrooms with Dr. Lori Burns and Kate Okeson
ASHP CML
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Today, we will discuss their fight for New Jersey’s first inclusive education law. Hosted by veteran educator, Rachel Pitkin, we take a deep dive into what an inclusive education looks like and the efforts utilized by Lori and Kate to make this law a reality. Make sure you follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter!
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The History of Black Music — A Love Supreme
Zinn Education Project
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A widely-published writer, he’s the author, co-author, or editor of four music history books and many essays and articles. The post The History of Black Music — A Love Supreme appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Ramsey, Jr. Who Hears Here? On Black Music, Pasts and Present (2022) is his latest book.
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The Lasting Frontier of Learning: A Conversation with NCHE’s Dalton Savage
NCHE
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Dalton Savage, an Education Coordinator at NCHE, spoke with me about his experiences in the classroom and his current role at NCHE. history, Oklahoma History, U.S./Virginia Virginia History, AP Human Geography, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, and AP U.S. We sat down on a Monday morning to briefly catch up.
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“Edith and Doris: History, Writing, and Photographs” at the Southwest Harbor Public Library
Society for Classical Studies
AUGUST 12, 2024
Hamilton was a celebrated educator —headmistress of the all-female Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore from 1896-1922, and renowned author, best known for her books on ancient Greek and Roman literature and classical mythology. He also investigates the history of Classical scholars in America. Online viewing is available.
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Teaching the Truth about George Floyd — and Our History
ED Surge
JUNE 17, 2022
In order to create the systemic changes required to realize racial justice, we must transform ourselves into students and recommit to learning how our shared history influences modern practices. My organization, Facing History and Ourselves, and many others have been doing this necessary work.
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AI: Another Big Adjustment for Educators
World History Teachers Blog
JUNE 28, 2024
Young about new features of AI that will require educators to make even more adjustments. Edsurge just published a new story by Jeffery R. First, Open AI is making its latest generation of Chatbot free to anyone. Second, new tools make it easier for students to skip notetaking in class.
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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs
ED Surge
JULY 10, 2024
My colleagues feverishly jotted down notes as one of my students, Ethan, moved through his presentation on how educators can more intentionally use AI in their classes. The population of students I serve as a teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning are interested in pursuing a career in education.
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Designing Opportunities for Deeper Discussions in World History Classrooms
Digital Promise
AUGUST 9, 2022
The post Designing Opportunities for Deeper Discussions in World History Classrooms appeared first on Digital Promise.
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What Black Parents Think About How Black History Is Taught (Opinion)
Education Week - Social Studies
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The preferences of Black parents are rarely the focus in debates over Black history instruction. Here’s what these survey respondents had to say.
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The Surprising History of Google's Push to Scan Millions of Library Books
ED Surge
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Schonfeld, co-author of the new book, “Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization.” Schonfeld is a longtime leader in the library community and is a program director at Ithaka S+ R a nonprofit education consultancy.
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OPINION: Florida’s governor and the College Board do not get to decide how we learn Black history
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 6, 2023
Ron DeSantis or the College Board to curate and disburse Black history to us. As despicable and harmful as the Florida governor’s recent rejection of the pilot Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course was, DeSantis does not get to decide when and how we learn Black history. DeSantis’ playbook is plagiarized.
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Can AI Aid the Early Education Workforce?
ED Surge
MARCH 18, 2024
Today, the use of this technology in education settings is underway, and states are even beginning to release guidance on how to navigate AI in schools. Over the past year, the tone of that guidance has shifted from skepticism and resistance to acceptance and optimism, according to an analysis from the Center for Reinventing Public Education.
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People Are Hunting for Education ‘Fads.’ What Does That Say About Schools?
ED Surge
AUGUST 6, 2024
These changes, called a “decisive victory” in the long-standing “reading wars,” have pitted education research favoring phonics-based instruction against other ways of teaching students to read, including word recognition. There’s an unvoiced assumption behind this — that education is prone to “fads.” The lesson?
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Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?
ED Surge
MARCH 26, 2024
When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. Cote is not alone in pinning hopes on AI to help the teaching of civics. “We
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The Future of Democracy Depends on a Quality Civics Education
ED Surge
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.
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‘We must talk about this real history’: Reactions to ‘divisive concepts’ ban
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Earlier this year, state lawmakers proposed a repeal, eliciting more than 1,000 letters to the House Education Committee. Most (94 percent, or 248 letters) supported repeal, citing concerns such as a climate of fear among teachers and the worry that history couldn’t be taught fully and honestly.
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OPINION: Politicians who come to our HBCU campuses must understand and recognize our storied history
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Our nation’s history is replete with stories of the relentless fight for equitable voting rights. Higher education has the power to formidably facilitate political engagement on campus by supporting greater access to political candidates. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.
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OPINION: The College Board is sanitizing African American studies just as it has American history
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Similar sanitization runs rampant in its AP American history course. When we allow toxic culture wars and the politicians who fuel them to infiltrate our classrooms, we fail our students and the educational process. Overnight the Cotton South’s historic need for cheap labor disappeared.” .
LGBTQIA+ Resources from Facing History
Facing Today
JUNE 2, 2022
It is Pride Month again this June and a great time for educators to ensure that LGBTQIA+ histories and experiences are centered throughout the year. Below are a number of Facing History resources that can help educators explore these themes with confidence and curiosity.
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