Stanford History Education Group

AUGUST 24, 2022

Illinois High School Students to Receive Media Literacy Instruction This Year kerrd Wed, 08/24/2022 - 10:13 08/22/22 [link]

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2024

The institutes featured below are a few of the ones that could be of interest to people’s history educators.

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K-12 Geography American History History 52

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For a long portion of their history, education schools didn’t have to think much about recruitment. “We We just said, ‘Here we are, come, we’re ready for you,’” says Stan Harward, the associate dean of Utah Valley University’s College of Education. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below.

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K-12 Advocacy High School History Education 97

Doing Social Studies

JANUARY 27, 2022

I will be sharing the evening with Essdack consultant and KCSS past president Glenn Wiebe, current KCSS vice president TJ Warsnak, high school social studies rock star Derek Schutte, and Institute for Curriculum Services Consultant Erika Lowery. I’m especially excited about my own session on February 16th!

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Social Studies Primary Sources Geography Economics 67

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The teacher-led rallies received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement.

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. In July, Ajith and three of her friends testified before the Texas State Board of Education, demanding changes to the way students are taught.

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Teaching Social Justice Elementary School American History 145

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. Courtney Bennis High School Social Studies Teacher, Virginia Beach, Virginia A huge “Thank you!”

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History Education History Education Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Fewer than 20 percent of high school students knew that simply looking at one photo online is not enough research to gauge if something is really happening. And among middle school students, 80 percent did not understand that “sponsored content” on a news organization’s website is paid advertising.

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Civics Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 112

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. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. After 40 years of teaching English to high school students in New Jersey, Olga Polites knows how critical media literacy education is in today’s digital age.

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Teaching Civics K-12 Social Science 125

The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

Many educators probably weren’t surprised by today’s announcement of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results for civics and history. Yet for the first time since the NAEP began testing students on civics some 35 years ago, the country has a clear path forward to improving civics and history education.

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Civics Primary Sources Civic Engagement K-12 108

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

A group of more than 300 historians and education experts published their answer — a “ Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy.” This is particularly true for learning our history. The Educating for American Democracy project offers no clear guidance on which path is the right one. So what’s the alternative?

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American History History Teaching Civics 83

Diane Ravitch

JUNE 20, 2021

The University published the following survey of the results: A new national study by Stanford researchers showing a woeful inability by high schoolers to detect fake news on the internet suggests an urgent need for schools to integrate new tools and curriculum into classrooms that boost students’ digital skills, the study’s authors say.

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High School History History Education Research 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Our education system is failing to educate the next generation to face the challenges of our times. To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. Related: What do classroom conversations about race, identity and history really look like?

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Civics Education History Critical Thinking 109

Zinn Education Project

MAY 6, 2024

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. Textbooks and high-stakes testing have also long distorted curricula. In this election year, that is why educators are hosting more than 170 events to challenge the media silence and encourage everyone to defend the freedom to learn. Who and Where?

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Teaching Historic Sites History Human Rights 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on social media. High School social studies teacher. Can high-school kids check the authenticity of an alarming image posted on Facebook?

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K-12 Primary Sources Civics Social Studies 91

Zinn Education Project

APRIL 25, 2024

Chicago students organized “peace talks” at high schools across the city in the wake of a walkout protest demanding a ceasefire to the war in Gaza in January 2024. history young people have protested to demand justice in the United States and around the world. Source: Denver Post Through U.S.

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Human Rights Humanities K-12 History 144

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Jenna Saykhamphone, a senior at Annandale High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, helped start an equity team at her high school to fight stereotypes both inside and outside her school in suburban Washington, D.C. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Credit: Christina A.

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History American History Ancestry Pedagogy 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. Then they ransacked the Capitol.

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Teaching Civics American History Controversial Topics 133

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. While many education groups provide resources for teaching about the crisis as a “conflict” rooted in antisemitism and Islamophobia, that sole emphasis is misleading.

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Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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Education Policy Education History Advocacy 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

As Chris Tims, a high school teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, sees it, history education is about teaching students to synthesize diverse perspectives on the nation’s complicated past. and African American history. history and civics since at least Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War.

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Social Studies Civics History American History 111