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The Future of Democracy Depends on a Quality Civics Education

ED Surge

A Good Civics Education Includes History When teachers, administrators and legislators talk about history education, we must consider it an exercise in civics. we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts. we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. Maybe my students would write their own textbooks like those at Beachwood (OH) Middle School.

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The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member!

ASHP CML

ASHP/CML conducts professional development programs for middle and high school teachers and college faculty focused on new historical scholarship and active-learning pedagogy.

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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

Steph Schares Middle School Extended Learning Teacher, Ames, Iowa Half American by Matthew F. Makenzie —Rachael Van Fleet Middle School Literature and Social Studies Teacher, Corvallis, Oregon Although I was given a copy of Half American , I was not allowed to utilize it in my classroom. I appreciate it!

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

Bob Henson High School Social Studies Teacher, Villa Hills, Kentucky In my capacity as a secondary history educator, I strategically incorporated a Democracy Now! The primary and secondary sources are perfect for middle school readers at multiple levels. The selections are short and easily digested.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

In the following weeks, Cousineau recounted, the teachers drafting the American Studies course were told to halt their work, high school English teachers were told to stop writing a new humanities course, and a middle school reading curriculum set to receive final approval was pulled.