Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2025

This years special Education Week Opinion project offers perspectives and guidance from educators for improving Black history education.

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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.

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History Psychology Leadership History Education 98

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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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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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.

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Social Studies History Education History Primary Sources 140

Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2025

Do you know how to put Black history sources in context?

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Primary Sources History Education History Education 48

C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A student, who would only be in my class for less than a month before transferring, asked it during my third year of teaching and my first year teaching a high school history class. Like many history teachers, I love the subject I teach—the events, the historical figures, and the stories they leave behind. In 1916, Charles H.

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History Social Studies History Education Economics 52

Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

One of the biggest challenges in history education is engaging students in meaningful analysis while encouraging collaboration and critical thinking. Big Idea: What lasting impact did this have on history? Timeline Construction History is all about connections. Depth & Complexity: Ethics: Was the event just or unjust?

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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.

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Social Studies K-12 Pedagogy History Education 100

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.

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Library Primary Sources Local History Professional Development 130

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.

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Social Studies K-12 History Education American History 100

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).

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Library Social Studies History Education History 130

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.

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Teaching Elementary School Social Justice American History 145

ASHP CML

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment. This week, researcher Carli Snyder shares a primary source.

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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.

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Teaching Social Justice Library History Education 77

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.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

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?

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K-12 Advocacy High School Teaching 119

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.

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Civics Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 112

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

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Teaching Civics K-12 Social Science 131

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.

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Advocacy Teaching Public School History Education 120

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.”.

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History Education Tradition History Research 106

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.

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History Professional Development Pedagogy American History 40

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.

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Teaching Social Justice History History Education 59

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.

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History Education History Teaching Education 52

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

These are tuition-free opportunities for K12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics. The institutes featured below are a few of the ones that could be of interest to peoples history educators. Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds summer institutes for teachers.

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History Education History Humanities Teaching 52

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 (..)

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Social Studies Primary Sources Geography Economics 67

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.

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K-12 Geography American History History 52

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.

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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]

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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]

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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.

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History Education History Research Teaching 60

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]

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Stanford History Education Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

SUNY Will Teach Students to Ethically Use AI lee_2 Mon, 02/03/2025 - 17:27 01/16/25 [link]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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