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This year, from Seattle, Washington, to Miami, Florida, and many towns and cities in between, educators will host more than 170 grassroots events on Saturday, June 8 and throughout the month. Here are highlights from the remarks. Here are highlights from the remarks. I was teaching for critical thinking. They want to hurt trans kids.
This is particularly true for learning our history. To understand America today requires examining the major events in our past that define our national character (for good or for ill). First, strengthen history curricula at the state level, which — for better or for worse — is where the authority rests to control curriculum.
Our wide reach is thanks to word of mouth, individual donors, and countless teachers dedication to bringing peoples history to their students. Through our lessons, young people are learning toread the news with a critical eye, to assess current events with a historical lens, and to recognize red-baiting and fear-mongering tactics.
“In Virginia, Youngkin can’t begin to do what Ron DeSantis can do in Florida on questions of ‘wokeness,’ because there is a Democratic Senate majority that is blocking much of Youngkin’s preferred agenda,” said Stephen Farnsworth, the director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington.
Other institutions, along with a lack of leadership, have played a role in the current crisis, he said. Or, as journalist Stephen Sawchuk has written , “A historyeducation rooted in facts, evidence, and well-argued positions might be a beginning step toward healthier, more productive, and more engaged citizenry.
As Chris Tims, a high school teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, sees it, historyeducation is about teaching students to synthesize diverse perspectives on the nation’s complicated past. Liberals value civic knowledge, too, but tend to spend more time connecting history to current events. This story also appeared in NBC News.
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