World History Teachers Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Among the 45 images are Hitler and Mussolini shaking hands in Germany, Japanese aircraft carrying out air raids over China, Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek sitting with the chairman of the Yunan provincial government, and four Italian soldiers taking aim in Ethiopia in 1935.

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Passion for Social Studies

DECEMBER 27, 2024

One topic that is always popular when teaching any government course is the presidency. The lessons include required elements for AP US Government and Politics, so they push students to analyze this branch critically. Honestly, students are always so engaged to learn about the person who is the leader of the United States.

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Passion for Social Studies

MARCH 14, 2025

It causes students to think critically about the branches of government and the role Congress plays. THE AP GOVERNMENT CONGRESS UNIT To greatly enhance your AP Government and Politics Class and take it beyond the ordinary, the AP Government Congress Unit is the ultimate resource. Coupled with an 88% pass rate and 3.58

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Instead, to arrive at their Corruption Perceptions Index and Control of Corruption Indicator (respectively), they aggregate the opinions of experts in governance and corruption. Blavatskyy postulated that there is a positive relationship between the median BMI and a countrys level of government corruption.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

The urgent need for manpower in the war led the French to begin negotiations with the Chinese government for Chinese laborers as this essay from the Guardian notes. The thread includes interesting links and a trailer for a movie from Yellow Earth Productions called "Forgotten" about China during the war.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 11, 2025

Critical Thinking about Leadership and Accountability Nixons time in office allows students to think critically about leadership, ethics, and the concept of accountability in government. It can spark discussions about the role of the press, the legal system, and public trust in government. These actions marked a shift in the U.S.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Project Title:Examining Womens Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles Tessa Provins, University of Arizona Tessa Provins is an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Read about the funded projects.

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This week, we dug into the foundations of the United States government and explored how early laws shaped the country’s growth. EduProtocols were front and center as we kept students engaged and active in their learning: Monday: Introduced The Tier List to rank government systems and used Iron Chef with Padlet to analyze types of governments.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In Asia and Oceania, Spanish rule for over 300 years introduced Catholicism and centralized governance in places like present-day Guam , the Philippines, and Taiwan, deeply altering the identity and languages of these regions. Without a clear understanding of what lies within their vaults, museums cannot fulfill this duty.

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

Wednesday: George Washington Takes Office We jumped into Lesson 2: George Washington Takes Office , diving into how Washington and Congress worked to strengthen the federal government. The establishment of key government structures. For example: A chain symbolizing the unification of state debts under the federal government.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Analysts said the difference likely came down to leadership in some states being “simply more effective at steering districts to focus on student learning” in the face of vague spending guidelines from the federal government.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many adults, as well as the vast majority of my high school-age peers, don’t seem to understand how government works and as a result don’t trust it. The Pew Research Center has been tracking public trust in government since 1958 and the decline in trust is very real.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

(Reading Recovery was criticized for not providing enough explicit instruction in decoding words; New Zealand is set to end government funding of the program.) The government made a rightward shift in 2023 to the National Party, ending six years of leadership under former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who had an international profile.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 8, 2020

I never had Mrs. McDonald or Mrs. O’Neil as teachers per se, but they were both student government advisors who were always willing to lend an open ear, whether it was school or personal related. I struggled to earn a good grade in both classes, but because of the classroom culture he created, I worked hard.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Chinas Governance in the New Era of Xi Jinping By Elizabeth J. Operationally, however, its dynamic patterns of governance reflect the shifting concerns of a succession of visionary Communist Party leaders. Perspectives on Politics The post Chinas Governance in the New Era of Xi Jinping appeared first on. Read the full article.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Administered by the federal government, it tracks student performance in fourth and eighth grades and serves as a national yardstick of achievement. In reading, students slid below the devastatingly low achievement levels of 2022, which many educators had hoped would be a nadir. That’s a big deal. Its almost criminal.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

These systems could also, Smigielski points out, help state leaders make an argument to the federal government that they need more funding. And they could help states distribute the funds they get every year from the federal government in a more intentional way, making sure that dollars are flowing in the direction of need.

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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

Through the violent military campaign known as the Conquest of the Desert , the Argentine government gained control over the southern portion of the continent, killing and displacing Indigenous peoples and moving to assimilate the rest through educational and religious initiatives.

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Are your government students excited for the upcoming election? This is even the perfect unit for teaching AP United States Government and Politics! I’m sure they are full of opinions and ready to discuss their thoughts with the class! This will definitely be an exciting election year.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In addition, seven states attached a prefatory declaration of rights to their frameworks of government: Virginia (June 1776), Delaware (September 1776), Pennsylvania (September 1776), Maryland (November 1776), North Carolina (December 1776), Massachusetts (March 1780), and New Hampshire (June 1784).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective. New Jersey officials acknowledge that theres a problem.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

Beginning in the late 1980s, the federal government started to collect data on these two important, confounding factors academic achievement before diagnosis and disability severity so that policymakers could see how well students were faring under the 1975 federal law that mandates support for educating students with disabilities.

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ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

The notification letter asserted that each “grants immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.” The claim that NEH’s work endangers the interests of the federal government contradicts abundant evidence of its many contributions.

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 10, 2025

The textbook oversimplifies and overcomplicates at the same timecramming seven principles into one chapter, with little focus on building foundational knowledge like understanding the branches of government or their roles. Despite the challenges, Im determined to make this unit engaging and meaningful for my students. The Lesson Plan 1.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2025

In 2024, accessible, high-quality pre-K was one of the top two policy solutions approved by voters, state government or city officials in the countrys 75 largest cities, the report found. CityHealth is partnering with the National Institute for Early Education Research to track this progress here.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Electoral College process respects the federal character of the United States, giving certain roles to the states and others to the federal government. Much of the discussion during the Constitutional Convention revolved around measures needed to balance the powers of the state and national governments. How does the process work?

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

This site has thankfully been spared from destruction by the regional government when it was earmarked as a possible tourist attraction. While we were grateful that this impressive midden has been preserved, the government official accompanying us pointed out shells littering the landscape several hundred feet away.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For instance, one major initiative started during that time was the College Scorecard , which provides information on college options based on various government datasets. The dominant narrative was, ‘If students just have better info about where to go to college, more would go,’” he says. “I I said, ‘This is bananas.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

Their infamous love of liberty, radical egalitarianism, and staunch resistance to being governed by powerful outsiders granted them some celebrity across colonial sources. What they really aim for is to govern the county themselves, from the city of Gualaquiza. Its the only way forward, Kunki says.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The speakers of many of these languages live deep within roadless rainforests in villages that are very difficult for government representatives and other researchers to access. Perhaps the best-known example is the Linguistic Survey of India , which involved a colossal network of government officials around the country.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 31, 2024

American Coup: Wilmington 1898 tells the story of how “self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow Wilmington’s democratically-elected, multi-racial, Reconstruction era government. Black residents were murdered and thousands were banished.

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ED Surge

APRIL 7, 2025

With the latter, preschool programs are vulnerable to changes in governance or an economic downturn. Universal pre-K programs tend to have more staying power when they are paid for by a guaranteed funding stream, such as a tax initiative, versus pulling from a city budget, Weisenfeld notes.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into Decision-Making Analyzes how the IPBES framework can guide policy and decision-making processes in planning and governance. Source: Environmental Policy and Governance, 2021. Source: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018. Source: Land Use Policy, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

Countries building out early childhood systems and investing more Although global investment in early childhood is not at the levels experts would hope for, many are heartened by a few government-led efforts to inject more funding and strengthen standards. And in Austria , the government recently committed to provide more than 4.5

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JANUARY 3, 2025

We call it Civics, not Government, class because its purpose is to instill a sense of citizen duty and participation, not just a memorization of concepts and amendments. Email or Call Government Officials Find at least one small way to connect with an elected official during class. Probably less than wed care to admit, right?

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HistoryRewriter

MARCH 4, 2024

They have used this protocol with middle to high school grades covering history and government topics. Some of our awesome EduProtocol friends: Angela Zorn , Dominic Helmstetter , and Steph Conklin shared some examples in the gallery below.

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