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NCHE Partners with the Library of Congress

NCHE

The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). As of February 2025, NCHE serves as the director of one of the Librarys newest regional granting entities, the Great Plains Region.

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OPINION: How best do we teach kids about Holocaust horrors? Show them what it was like

The Hechinger Report

Though the past year has put a spotlight on the limits and possibilities of using technology for teaching and learning, we began exploring the utility of using virtual reality as a medium for Holocaust education before the pandemic reshaped the educational landscape. It’s intended for larger museum, school and community spaces.

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How does an NCHE Colloquium come together?

NCHE

Funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant, our 3-day long programming has guided hundreds of teachers in exploring how technology has shaped history while simultaneously developing teachers’ ability to design, implement, evaluate, and share primary source based historical inquiry.

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In Philadelphia, a symbol of police brutality comes down, and a monument to black student protesters will go up

The Hechinger Report

Masterman High School, the rising junior was doing research for a proposal to convince the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to erect a marker to commemorate the walkouts, when thousands of local students marched to protest racial injustice more than 50 years earlier. The focal point was the city’s Board of Education building.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross.

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My Goal as a History Teacher: Create Curators

Rosie the History Teacher

As a history teacher with a background in museum work, my biggest goal is for my students to learn to curate their knowledge to be able to share it with others. This involves so many of those important historical thinking skills : making connections, periodization, analyzing sources, and crafting arguments.

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Charter school leaders should talk more about racism

The Hechinger Report

The promise of greater efficiency has been an attractive argument for charters as states struggle to keep up with ever rising educational expenses. Property taxes are not only a key source of school district funding, they are the primary source of revenue for the communities they sit in. localities.