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.
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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.
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.
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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.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Officials from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation say these results point to longstanding problems with the way American history is taught in schools.
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.”
History Tech
JULY 19, 2024
The Stanford History Education Group has been around since 2002. Sam Wineburg, SHEG’s founder, one year earlier had published a book titled Thinking Historically and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past.
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.
NCHE
APRIL 21, 2023
The National Council for History Education stands by history teachers in South Dakota. The social studies standards recently approved by the South Dakota Board of Education did not adequately take into account the expertise of its teachers.
ASHP CML
MARCH 5, 2024
The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - 14:23 The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! Professional Level: Advanced Education: Advanced degree in U.S. Please go to [link] more information.
NCHE
JUNE 25, 2023
The National Council for History Education stands in support of history teachers in Florida. The social studies standards focused on African American history, recently approved by the Florida Board of Education, sanitize historical acts of violence against Black Americans. Slavery is, and was, wrong.
NCHE
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Since 2021, the National Council for History Education has partnered with the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources program on a nationwide program, “The Rural Experience in America”. The Library of Congress is developing a new education center that will break ground in the next few years.
Zinn Education Project
JUNE 16, 2024
In this election year, the Zinn Education Project developed an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display to raise awareness about the growing threat of anti-history education laws and book bans. Educators and organizations from all over the United States signed up to use the display on the Teach Truth Day of Action and beyond.
HistoryRewriter
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Game of Quotes can be easily adapted to help students master historical thinking skills, whether you use the College Board (AP) definitions, the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) definitions aka Digital Inquiry Group (DIG), or use the definitions from The American Historical Association (AHA).
Zinn Education Project
JULY 30, 2024
We are thrilled to announce our second class of Zinn Education Project Prentiss Charney fellows for the 2024–2026 school years. The fellowship offers support for a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together for two years. history children will learn and the kind of future they will create.
Zinn Education Project
MAY 30, 2024
For the past three summers, educators, students, parents, and allies have joined across the country to speak out against politicians attempting to restrict the freedoms of educators and students. Follow the conversation on Twitter: #TeachTruth The post Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call appeared first on Zinn Education Project.
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 2, 2024
These are tuition-free opportunities for K–12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics. The institutes featured below are a few of the ones that could be of interest to people’s history educators. Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds summer institutes for teachers.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Department of Education launched an unusual marketing blitz. And the group found that in the fall of 2020-21, 20 percent of undergraduate teacher-education programs had seen enrollment drops of 11 percent or more because of the pandemic. Earlier this month, the U.S. So how are teacher prep programs responding?
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 27, 2020
Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. In July, Ajith and three of her friends testified before the Texas State Board of Education, demanding changes to the way students are taught.
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 15, 2024
For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. Once again, we invite educators, students, parents, and community members to rally across the country and pledge to #TeachTruth and defend LGBTQ+ rights on June 8, 2024.
Doing Social Studies
JANUARY 27, 2022
The four groups dedicated to serving the teachers of Kansas are: Kansas Council for History Education Kansas Geography Alliance Kansas Council for Economic Education Kansas Council for Social Studies The cool thing is that while we all have a specific area of focus, we all have one common goal – sharing our love of history, government, and (..)
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 8, 2024
While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history. This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition.
Stanford History Education Group
MARCH 12, 2024
Quality Media Literacy Requires More Than Toothless Laws, Educators Say lee_2 Tue, 03/12/2024 - 17:47 03/12/24 [link]
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
As educators, we would tell our students they could become anything, while simultaneously teaching them in a school building that had no soap in the bathrooms, broken computers and a nurse for half a day, only on Fridays. Tougher for parents, for students and for educators. The inequity in the system was tragic and profound.
Stanford History Education Group
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Science, Misinformation, and the Role of Education kerrd Thu, 10/27/2022 - 12:16 10/20/22 [link]
Stanford History Education Group
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Science, Misinformation, and the Role of Education kerrd Thu, 10/27/2022 - 12:16 10/20/22 [link]
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
The study, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning , was produced by researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Whether this bounty will make us smarter and better informed or more ignorant and narrow-minded will depend on our awareness of this problem and our educational response to it.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
“We do have a little bit of a Wild West situation right now with alternative credentials,” said Alana Dunagan, a senior research fellow at the nonprofit Clayton Christensen Institute, which researches education innovation. higher education system “doesn’t do a good job of separating the wheat from the chaff.”.
Digital Promise
JULY 2, 2018
This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. Read the original version here.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 4, 2022
Movies have taught me so much about the history of the United States and the world. It was “ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark ” that educated me on the real-life effects of the military drafts during the Vietnam War. “ I was immediately enthralled by the film’s ability to highlight the history of journalism and power of the media.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 3, 2023
Many educators probably weren’t surprised by today’s announcement of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results for civics and history. Yet for the first time since the NAEP began testing students on civics some 35 years ago, the country has a clear path forward to improving civics and history education.
Zinn Education Project
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
history in secondary schools. More than a quarter of the teachers surveyed use Zinn Education Project resources. and countless teachers’ dedication to bringing people’s history to their students. We invite you to continue to spread the word about our people’s history lessons. Has been called.?”
Stanford History Education Group
DECEMBER 6, 2023
‘There’s Nothing More Critical’: California Makes Schools Teach Kids to Spot Fake News kerrd Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:10 12/05/23 [link]
Stanford History Education Group
DECEMBER 6, 2023
‘There’s Nothing More Critical’: California Makes Schools Teach Kids to Spot Fake News kerrd Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:10 12/05/23 [link]
Stanford History Education Group
MARCH 21, 2022
Media Literacy is Desperately Needed in Classrooms Around the Country, Advocates Say kerrd Mon, 03/21/2022 - 10:03 03/18/22 [link]
Stanford History Education Group
MARCH 21, 2022
Media Literacy is Desperately Needed in Classrooms Around the Country, Advocates Say kerrd Mon, 03/21/2022 - 10:03 03/18/22 [link]
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 10, 2022
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. It’s also designed to help educators see how they’re already applying these concepts in their existing courses. “In
Stanford History Education Group
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
The Solution to Fighting Misinformation Might Start in Schools. This State Wants to Find Out. kerrd Thu, 02/16/2023 - 13:52 01/24/23 [link]
Stanford History Education Group
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
The Solution to Fighting Misinformation Might Start in Schools. This State Wants to Find Out. kerrd Thu, 02/16/2023 - 13:52 01/24/23 [link]
Stanford History Education Group
MARCH 25, 2022
How Improving Civic Literacy Can Reinforce Democracy kerrd Fri, 03/25/2022 - 10:03 03/25/22 [link]
Stanford History Education Group
MARCH 25, 2022
How Improving Civic Literacy Can Reinforce Democracy kerrd Fri, 03/25/2022 - 10:03 03/25/22 [link]
Stanford History Education Group
AUGUST 24, 2022
Illinois High School Students to Receive Media Literacy Instruction This Year kerrd Wed, 08/24/2022 - 10:13 08/22/22 [link]
Stanford History Education Group
AUGUST 24, 2022
Illinois High School Students to Receive Media Literacy Instruction This Year kerrd Wed, 08/24/2022 - 10:13 08/22/22 [link]
Stanford History Education Group
APRIL 25, 2022
It Doesn’t Take Long to Learn How to Spot Misinformation Online, Stanford Study Finds teresa.elena.o… Mon, 04/25/2022 - 14:18 04/19/22 [link]
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