High School History Oral History 
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MARCH 16, 2023
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NCHE
APRIL 3, 2023
At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! They were students when Smithfield’s Red Brick school closed, and he would enjoy their story.” What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? Hey, will you have Cooper call me?
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A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 4, 2010
The following is an excerpt from the program detailing the Silver Award winning project of Troop 58 (the majority of the girls in this Troop are NMHS students): Textbooks can tell you facts, but it takes people to make history come alive. Thus our New Milford Oral History Project began. All I can say is WOW!
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 9, 2022
Her classes involved lessons on Black history and women’s history, as well as wide-ranging conversations about was happening in the world. Many of Kaler-Jones’ students — most of them Black — weren’t taught about important Black figures or positive history lessons from a non-white perspective in school.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 17, 2022
Along with some like-minded colleagues, she quickly formed an ad-hoc research group, “ Suddenly Distant ,” to capture this moment in history. As the pandemic dragged on, Bartlett decided to turn the short-term project into a long-term survey and oral history of what was happening in classrooms around the country.
Teaching American History
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The first photo shows a young black woman walking with school books cradled in her left arm. At the forefront is a woman whose face contorts with hate as she hurls slurs at Elizabeth Eckford, who is trying to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, on September 4, 1957. Published in Ebony Magazine, January 1958.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Children can also collect and publish oral histories about a place. By middle and high school, students are required to be able to distinguish facts from opinions, make reasonable arguments and back them up with evidence from multiple reliable sources.
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