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Critical Literacy Across the Curriculum

A Principal's Reflections

survival depends upon racial purity, survival depends upon seizure of territory or survival depends on nullifying or eliminating anti-social groups who undermine society and government) Utilizing the archives of the U.S. Collaboration Colleen Tambuscio Common Core Joanna Westbrook Lisette Morel literacy New Milford High School'

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. But instead of graduating from Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, in four years, he took six. After high school, he did odd jobs for several years. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Teacher Spotlight: Ginny Boles and why MAHG is important

Teaching American History

Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so as to read the Latin and Greek texts the Founding Fathers read as they formulated their plans for self-government. Then one of my high school juniors would raise a hand and ask a good question. Next, her father called.

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To Make Assignments More Meaningful, I’m Giving Students a More Authentic Audience

ED Surge

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. It was a maddening moment of clarity for me. Sure, the skills of writing may have been practiced, but so what?

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. Who gets to construct truth?

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‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. Every campus in the parish school district sustained damage; internet access has been spotty at best. It’s really not cool, especially in high school, to go to the counselor,” she said.

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STUDENT VOICE: I have autism, ADHD, dysgraphia and Tourette’s; what I don’t have is extra time on the Kentucky Gov.’s cup contest

The Hechinger Report

Jack Bradley is a student at Dupont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky. History teacher, I could teach the content related to modern world history. Jack Bradley is a high-school student in Louisville, Kentucky. Imagine having to justify your need for stairs every time you need them.