ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today. Government: PP.2.USG.2

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Political Science Now

JULY 24, 2024

Records are our basis for holding our government accountable and providing transparency. In conclusion, the Committee commends Dr. Her publications include numerous refereed journal articles as well as the book, The Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents , which contribute to our understanding of elected leaders in government.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. In 2010, Nathan was named Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. So, you need to design a CBA?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I can’t imagine teaching civics and government without political cartoons—they are essential to the subject. So here I’ve outlined some activity ideas for using them to help you teach five key government concepts. They make the best entry point for introducing concepts and diving deeper into diverse viewpoints on political issues.

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Steven V. Miller

DECEMBER 27, 2023

1 Part of the challenge this year has been overhauling the advanced MA class on quantitative methods to make it less about time series and as much about models students in international relations or economic history might encounter in their travels. What explains the incidence of anti-government demonstrations and riots? Sawyer et al.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 25, 2024

On this date (June 25 th ) in 1929, President Herbert Hoover signed the Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928, authorizing construction by the federal government of a gigantic dam on the Colorado River, just west of the Grand Canyon. The post Water Rights in the West: The Hoover Dam appeared first on Teaching American History.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. As caregivers of the future, it is crucial that we are aware of what and who our country does not want our students to know and help them discover the truth of their history for themselves. According to the Nat Turner Project , when our U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. Before the pandemic, Albalicia Espino often took her 6-year-old daughter Sara to the West Dallas Library. On special occasions, they’d make the trip to downtown Dallas, where the towering library building has a dedicated children’s floor.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. Thomas intends “to spend my entire life convincing them how exciting and important history is.” His bio picture is daughter Claire and Thomas meeting President Lincoln.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. And while most are avoiding the bad optics of raising tuition this year, history suggests these costs will eventually fall to students and their families. Other spending, too, continued to go up. Cash reserves sank.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

It did not matter that this story of possession was made possible by the longer history of dispossession central to settler colonialism. In the end, Barbuncho made it to Sweden, to much fanfare , and Lindnord set about making him a home and launching a long career based on this fortuitous event ten years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But, because the federal government left reopening plans to the states, which passed the task on to districts, which in many cases left the details to individual principals , students across the country are experiencing vastly different schooling scenarios. Perry is busy. I’m hearing your concerns. All of you have to work Saturday nights.’

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Student protesters from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida demand government action on firearms. No one is confused about why we have public fire departments or libraries: We all understand their mission for the public good. But the problem is not just a lack of academic content about civics and history.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Students line up with their books for library in a kindergarten class in Maine. government also acknowledges. Related: How the federal government abandoned Brown v. Change won’t be easy, and if history is any lesson, it will be a long time coming. Staff photo by Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). Explaining why requires some history. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

We’re ahead of the game in terms of awareness of the problem,” said Daniel Weinstock, director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University, which has received a grant of nearly 1 million Canadian dollars ($730,134) from the provincial government to study why people leave and what might make them change their minds.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. Jaisalmer, India — Once a year, history lecturer Vijay Kumar Ballani and his colleagues go door-to-door in this rural village, imploring parents to send their children to a cinderblock complex that lacks classroom space, bathrooms and desks. With over 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In addition to employing qualified elementary, middle and high school music teachers, David Douglas offers inexpensive instrument rentals ($25 per year), a library of musical scores, connections to reduced-price or free private lessons and a closet of free marching band uniforms and orchestra dress blacks, among other necessities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

They also say it’s in the universities’ self-interest, coming as it does at a time when decaying surroundings and urban crime discourage applicants, cash-strapped local governments are pushing these nonprofit institutions to pay more for the services they get, and the public has a low opinion of college costs, management and value.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. There is a consumer protection strand of American history, and now it’s higher education’s turn.”. If we’re going to go there and the federal government is going to create a file on everybody who’s going to go to college, we need to answer the privacy questions.”. Of course you do!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

The Healey administration has ushered in a number of other changes, from expanding universal preschool to signing an executive order for a “whole-of-government approach” to child care, calling on various state offices to collaborate with the business community to improve the field. I feel hopeful.”

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

A school turn-around grant program — funded by the federal government and run by the Montana Office of Public Instruction — may be changing that. There is no grocery store, no movie theater, no bowling ally, no public library. As Helgeson puts it, “this whole American Dream doesn’t apply to our people.”.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Two Core Document Collections cover the entire scope of American history.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Consider the NHRC’s use of the phrase “licit and illicit” in principle 1.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

Fischer, and other German scholars recruited by the Russian government to report on the peoples of the newly explored eastern territories. Approaches: Ethnographic fieldwork tradition has a long history and it is rooted from the 19 th century enlightenment philosophy. Petersburg in the 1760s, where he ed with G. Müller, J.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Master Cheng Yen calls recycling work “self-cultivation,” thus making an ordinary labor that is paid when it is done at government recycling centers into a religious practice at Tzu Chi centers, where people cheerfully work for no pay. The government wants to protect wildlife populations in the mountains.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. World Flags – You may also love displaying flags from around the world if you teach World History or Current World Issues.

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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” The fast-paced survey covers American history from Columbus to the present day. I’m Madisyn,” she said.

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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” The fast-paced survey covers American history from Columbus to the present day. I’m Madisyn,” she said.

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