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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. Now a middle school technology teacher at S.P. Tiffany Guillory is a middle school technology teacher at S.P.

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

The Hechinger Report

Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A.

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US History Worksheets: Printable and Digital Activities for Kids

Students of History

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. Now she wondered how to earn a teaching credential.

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5 Ways to Incorporate Current Events into Your Social Studies Classroom

Students of History

If you are teaching high school, this likely means that you can broach most news-worthy topics. However, if you're a middle school teacher, there are going to be some things you'll want to steer clear of. This is easiest to do in a Civics or American Government classroom. 2) Provide context and background information.

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When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail

The Hechinger Report

As a middle schooler, Alan says he was bullied relentlessly even as he was repeatedly suspended. And while the pandemic closed middle schools across the country, it doesn’t appear to have shutdown school discipline. Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We

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Florida Rejects 35% of Social Studies Texts as Too Leftist

Diane Ravitch

The textbooks are for elementary and middle school social studies classes as well as civics, economics, U.S. history and world history courses. Griffin highlighted a passage from a middle school textbook that described a socialist economy as one that “keeps things nice and even and without unnecessary waste.”