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Introducing our Fall 2024 Webinar Series, American Political Rhetoric

Teaching American History

Staff and faculty members at Teaching American History have heard from our teacher partners that they want nonpartisan election resources that elevate classroom discourse beyond political bickering and horse race coverage. Our webinars meet monthly on select Saturday mornings from 10.45am – 12pm ET. hours of professional development.

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Webinar Highlights from “Teaching the 2024 U.S. Election”

Political Science Now

Election” Webinar Highlights Summary by Samantha Chapa The 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be an historic event, with far-reaching implications for domestic and international politics. Read more about the webinar on APSA Educate Samantha Chapa is a Ph.D. The post Webinar Highlights from “Teaching the 2024 U.S.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

ED Surge

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States: Summer 2022 NEH-sponsored Institute

ASHP CML

This summer thirty middle and high school teachers from throughout the United States joined the ASHP/CML for a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Summer Institute on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States. In addition, we will host several upcoming webinars focused on teaching strategies and LGBTQ+ materials.

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New events from the RGS-IBG

Living Geography

Official measures of multiple deprivation in each of the four nations of the UK are used to allocate billions of pounds of government money. This is important because their impacts are likely to be a partly a function of the deprivation history of an area (e.g., The second one involves Professor Oli Mould.

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Why Schools Should Teach Philosophy, Even to Little Kids

ED Surge

This is a thought that recurs throughout history — this question of how do we tell what's real? Lots of little kids play around with the boundaries between reality and dreams, reality and make believe, in just the way that philosophers have throughout history. And Rex isn't uncommon. And Rex isn't uncommon.

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?I?m on edge all day long.? Schoolwork a mere afterthought for homeless youth

The Hechinger Report

With scant resources from state and federal governments, homeless liaisons, school counselors and social workers are patching together hasty practical solutions for the country’s approximately 1.5 Homeless teens who graduate high school will enter perhaps the worst job market in modern history. million homeless students.