The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2020

The federal government invested a lot of money in new students,” said Shapiro. Will history repeat? The 2009 Recovery Act increased the amount of Pell Grants to low-income students to more than $5,000 per year and expanded the number of students who were eligible for it. Related: Federal data shows 3.9

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Passion for Social Studies

APRIL 30, 2024

When students think about history, they often talk about the past. While the past does allow us to shape the future, history is more than this. So, students need to understand the importance of relationships with each other and within a government framework. Civics is a crucial part of history. civics posters $ 3.00

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In a memo sent to tribes in the region in March, government administrators expressed concern but said they were unable to deny the permit request. CC What is the traditional origin history of the Hopi people? SBK What is the purpose of government-to-government consultation —that is, between the Hopi Nation and the U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2018

Adam Fletcher writes: Student advocacy has a long history going back to at least the 1930s when a youth-led group called the American Youth Congress presented a list of grievances to the US Congress including public education. This is not a new concept in any sense. How would you rate the level of learner advocacy in your school or district?

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Passion for Social Studies

AUGUST 12, 2024

government critically using their own minds! It even guides students through the history of political ideology and why they must become well-informed and engaged citizens. Government. government is tough with all the opinions students bring to the classroom! Add to cart Government Debates $ 6.00

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work? 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Learning Objectives: Students will identify the three branches of the federal government. is governed. is governed. Explain that after the Revolutionary War, the new United States didn’t have a strong government. government. Constitution is.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It’s the kids in very urban areas who I had in mind because the whole idea of the GCSE is to make natural history on your doorstep something you are fascinated by. It's a great pity if this is seen as 'political' and something that the new Government can't get behind and move to the next phase with.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 6, 2021

suburbs and whose parents worked for the federal government, today’s events have been… challenging. I think that what I will say here is: Policymakers, you know how you’ve minimized the importance of history, government, and civics in all of your education reform efforts over the past couple of decades?

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 13, 2024

We were sad to learn last week that Mike Bisenius , a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program, has passed away after a brief, intense illness. Last fall we ran a story about Mike, who’d been named 2023 North Dakota History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Foundation.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Spain has a deep and far-reaching colonial history, particularly in Latin America. 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.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. appeared first on Teaching American History. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? Have more questions?

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

Does this sort of approach to government and daily life make a better settlement? Unfortunately, many of their names and personal stories are lost to history. Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said, “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Explain your answer! Why or why not? A monument? Be creative!

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.”

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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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Passion for Social Studies

APRIL 12, 2024

During all of his government roles, Kenedy executed significant decisions. President Kennedy Station Lesson This station lesson is perfect for accelerating and engaging your US History students! The fast-paced 55-minute station lesson keeps students focused while critically analyzing US History.

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Living Geography

JULY 15, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog , which now has over 300 posts preparing for some possible involvement in resource creation or support. But natural history, you know, garners a lot of interest. It looks likely we'll have a change of government. GCSE Podcast with Mary Colwell. And now we have a general election.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Last summer, Skinner and his colleagues at University of Florida, professor Hazel Levy and doctoral candidate Taylor Burtch, began researching broadband history and differences in access. At the same time, the government helped developers build new suburban subdivisions exclusively for white people. Skinner argues that the U.S.

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Living Geography

JUNE 14, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog, which has over 300 posts. A new article in 'Teaching Times' by Mary Colwell gives a bit of an update into the state of the GCSE Natural History, and its possible introduction in 2026. Textbooks will need to be written and teacher training and resource provisions put in place.

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World History Teachers Blog

JULY 30, 2022

The French forced the Haitian government to accept a loan out of which they could pay the reparations. The essay is an ideal assignment for world history students studying the unit on revolutions in the 1700 and 1800s. How was Haiti able to pay reparations?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

She planned to major in digital media arts, but before she could start, Delta State eliminated that major, along with 20 other degree programs , including history, English, chemistry and music. Azariah Journey is a second-year graduate student in history at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, which is cutting 20 degree programs. “Is

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

There is so much fascinating information to learn when taking any government course. Additionally, students will learn about the trials and tribulations of presidential succession in US History. Students will focus in-depth on the branches of government and how checks and balances work.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. While I share their nostalgia for a time in the history of public education when that might have been true, the damning performance by the nation’s 12th graders in U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

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. I was finally satisfied with the plan I had for my 10th graders, when it hit me: none of this actually matters.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Equip young people with lessons from history on organizing for voting rights. That is why GOP lawmakers are making it illegal for students to learn from history how to defend voting rights — at the same time they are making it harder to vote. Help us reach more teachers with people’s history lessons on voting rights in 2024.

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I want the books to be different from a traditional History or ELA class reading so that students understand the purpose of Ethnic studies is supposed to bring students and communities together. In my traditional History course, I like having students corroborate facts from historical fiction and non-fiction with the facts in our textbook.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As a teacher, celebrating President’s Day with your students is a great way to help them understand the role of the presidency in our government and past presidents’ impact on our country. history teacher, you can continue to use these baseball cards throughout the year to correspond with the presidents in office during each unit!

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Before touring History Colorado Center’s exhibit, The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever , in Denver this summer, I had never heard of Silas Soule. Most of Colorado’s white settlers and their leaders did not understand tribal government. Morrow disappeared forever.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. While Logan’s work revealed the plants Banda residents ate, other research reconstructed the region’s broader environmental history.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

You might also like this to give you time back to foster positive parent teacher relationship United States History Course $ 200.00 Add to cart AP US Government Course $ 200.00 Add to cart Civics and American Government Course $ 125.00 Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University.

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Strange Maps

MAY 28, 2024

But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. After centuries of foreign rule, first by Germans, then by Russians, the three Baltic states are masters in their own houses for the first time in their history.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The three-week program took teachers from across the country on a study tour of Philadelphia, Gettysburg, and Washington, DC, discussing with leading scholars three eras in history—the Founding, the Civil War, and the mid-twentieth century Civil Rights movement—all of which tested Americans’ commitment to their principles of liberty and equality.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

While many people can trace their family history back to a great-great-great-great grandfather who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in search of the famed “American Dream,” my ancestors inhabited the lands and waters in the Great Lakes region since the beginning of time itself. We are Anishinaabe peoples, also known as Ojibwe or Chippewa.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. Source: Alamy.In The Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

Schools have a long history of policing Native students’ graduation attire, often citing longstanding policies that all students must look alike and that deviations from the standard cap and gown are distracting. Related: As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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History Havoc

JULY 10, 2024

Background During the Civil War, the Confederate government of Texas sold US bonds owned by the state. appeared first on History Havoc. Plus it would be ludicrous. White (1869) This is the Supreme Court case that set the legal president that does not allow a state to secede. The post Can Texas Secede?

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