Education Week - Social Studies

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Presenting students with a fuller, authentic account of U.S. history is no easy task. It is, however, a necessary one.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As a social studies teacher and a Chinese American immigrant, I find myself subconsciously asking the following questions: How are Asian Americans viewed by the American public? Wayne Zhang is a graduate student at Northwestern University who will be teaching social studies next year at Amundsen High School in Chicago Public Schools.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They don't want other types of people to be able to have access to the curriculum, and that's done on purpose — especially in social studies.” It's why she studied history and journalism as an undergrad, and why teaching history appeals to her. How It Started Cella loves a good story.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

Elementary teachers can help students hone these skills through science, social studies, and health. Soft Skills in Social Studies There is a clear connection between social studies and soft skills like: communication, emotional intelligence, teamwork, and cultural awareness.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. Karen Kong, 16, has unwavering pride in her Chinese American heritage, rooted in her sense of family and honor.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

Engage your students in studying the past with Studies Weekly’s pre-K–6 Social Studies curriculum. Family-sourced primary sources can help students see themselves in the past and realize just how important and relevant history is to each of us.

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

Emily Toronto, a 5th-grade teacher at Bonneville Elementary in Utah, reported that her lower-level reading students also struggle in social studies and science. Though helping students with reading in small groups helps a little, Toronto says, “it can get more difficult when doing content reading for social studies or science.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 2, 2024

We also teach gifted students and we find that all the extra activities that Studies Weekly gives us are so great for our higher learners. Studies Weekly really adds to our Social Studies lessons and it makes it so easy for us to teach! We’re so happy with Studies Weekly and think you will be too.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 3, 2024

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

“It was kind of cool, kind of scary,” said Ophelia weeks later, while taking bites of barbecue chips at Heritage Kitchen, a restaurant a block away from her family’s apartment. Auggie had been excited to return to school for his favorite classes — social studies and reading — and Robinson’s robotics club.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula. Tracking State Trends in Chronic Absenteeism.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

While these students — a group we’re calling experienced multilinguals — are probably quite comfortable and fluent with speaking English socially, they may still be unfamiliar with the academic language used in science, social studies, math, and other content areas. You’re pulled out. So what is the problem?

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

He believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression. Learn how Studies Weekly Social Studies can help teach students about history’s humanitarians.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

I teach social studies in Edmonton, Alberta in what we would consider a medium-sized school of slightly under a thousand students. While the numerous routes may allow for flexibility in finding and developing teaching staff, the cost of inconsistency likely does not serve students or schools very well.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Herrington honored his heritage by carrying six eagle feathers, a braid of sweet grass, two arrowheads, and the Chickasaw Nation’s flag into space. Discover more perspectives and experiences through Studies Weekly’s social studies and science products.

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Education Week - Social Studies

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A Navajo scholar offers both perspective and resources for making Native American Heritage Month part of your classroom.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

Unraveling the differences: Phonological awareness vs. phonics. Voyager Sopris Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. They would have science and social studies, because you can’t read if you don’t know anything about the world, she said.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

Now she returns with three other educators — Fatma Elsamra, math, Reem Fakhry, science, and Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi, social studies — to focus more specifically on the curriculum piece of this work, approaches we can take to integrate Arab narratives into our teaching and curriculum. “They tend to be overlooked. . at that time.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If They’re proud of their heritage. It’s Cruey’s job to keep track of these particulars, even more than lesson planning or standardized test preparation. “My

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ACRE

JUNE 21, 2023

The Lakeport Plantation, an Arkansas State University Heritage Site, in Lake Village, Arkansas is one of the only remaining antebellum homes in Arkansas on the Mississippi River. Lakeport Plantation was donated to Arkansas State University in 2001 by the Sam Epstein Angel family. It was built in 1859 for Lycurgus and Lydia Johnson.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

Her seventh grade social studies class, like every other in Jefferson County Public Schools, the largest school district in Kentucky, would be online. Hi, I’m Amia Bridgeford, your student’s social studies teacher. As the sun bore down, she hoped to see the faces of the students she was now responsible for.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

A lot of it is social studies, among other subjects, and a lot of it is cultural teachings,” she said. “It’s The education department proposed changes to the social studies curriculum that critics describe as a veiled attempt to teach critical race theory. 12, 2021, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. The school had a curriculum for just one subject English language arts and no textbooks for math, science and social studies, the compliance report reads. public school students take in seventh or eighth grade, if not earlier. That same year, the late Arizona Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Eighth-grader Zakaria Ali, right, a student of Somali heritage, talks about how Muslims lose their freedom when Americans equate Islam with terror, as eighth-grader Hadil Ramadan, left, listens. This year in the project, which encompassed social studies, English, math and science, the topic of Islamophobia was popular.

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Diane Ravitch

JULY 16, 2024

Now Walters has appointed a list of rightwing luminaries to rewrite the state’s social studies curriculum. She then reminds readers that, “The Heritage Foundation is the think tank behind Project 2025 , a movement that proposes to dismantle the U.S. Recently, he mandated that the Bible be taught in the state’s classrooms.

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