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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

ED Surge

One fear expressed was about how the mostly Black and Latino students at 28 schools would fare under a plan created by new Superintendent Mike Miles that would require school libraries to cease, in essence, functioning as libraries. Demonstrators gather in August 2023 in protest of Houston ISD's plan to close libraries in schools.

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How the local public library helped one school district cope with Covid

The Hechinger Report

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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Prepare for Fall Multi Day seminars!

Teaching American History

Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. The seminar also includes a visit to a local historical site. See a sample itinerary here. Meals, materials, double-occupancy rooms, and historical site visits are covered 100%.

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Secrecy Encourages Careful Deliberation

Teaching American History

A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. Library of Congress. Courtesy of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention did not entirely agree. 5, 1858 Feb.

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A Reconsideration of an Old Analysis from 1968 (i.e. Students: You Can Do This, and Do This Better)

Steven V. Miller

library ( tidyverse ) library ( stevedata ) # forthcoming, v. on Github library ( kableExtra ) library ( modelsummary ) library ( stevethemes ) library ( ggrepel ) library ( modelr ) Here’s a table of contents. Mitchell's (1968) Data Set on Government Control in 26 South Vietnamese Provinces No.

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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. In its opinion, the court ruled that a school board could not ban books it deemed offensive from school libraries.

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The Sand Creek Massacre

Teaching American History

Courtesy of Denver Public Library. Most of Colorado’s white settlers and their leaders did not understand tribal government. Plains Indian Tribes such as the Cheyenne and Arapaho were not united under a governing alliance. Captain Silas Soule 1863 or 1864. Soule fired first, wounding Squier in the arm.