Stanford History Education Group

AUGUST 1, 2022

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 16, 2024

In this election year, the Zinn Education Project developed an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display to raise awareness about the growing threat of anti-history education laws and book bans. The American Library Association, a campaign cosponsor, provided Free People Read Freely bookmarks.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

history, education leaders have started to reckon with how to comprehensively teach history with an antiracism lens. Colleges are holding professional development online events for educators on how to reimagine education with racial justice in mind.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Without a doubt we would be living on Pinterest since it has dozens of pinboards – and tens of thousands of pins – related to history , including awesome resource sets from the Stanford History Education Group. Maybe my students would write their own textbooks like those at Beachwood (OH) Middle School.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. For a list of locations and activities, click here.

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Digital Promise

JULY 2, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. People of all ages struggle to evaluate the integrity of the digital information that rains down with every web search and social media scroll. This will allow them to examine multiple sources of information faster.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

But I believe that by allowing students to follow their own curiosity about our local history–whether this means something good or something less flattering–I am allowing them a stake in the future development of our community. Joe’s choice of using oral history interviews is well-suited to capture this history.

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ASHP CML

MARCH 5, 2024

Keep reading for the job description and application information. Please go to [link] more information. Details at a Glance Time Commitment: Full Time Schedule - 40 hours/week Application Deadline: Open until filled Start Date: Review of applications will begin on March 1 and continue until the position is filled.

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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. We will send the email to you to check first to make sure all the information is correct.) Create a graphic for your event. See Berkeley example to right.)

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

She took down the information, and she said she’d look into ordering soft covered copies to put on each unit. The post Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Excerpt below and the full class here.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. The educator-led events received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. Attend meetings, vote, run for office. Sign up today.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

As a country, we have not invested enough in teaching the very fundamental knowledge, skills and dispositions young people need to be informed and engaged participants in our bold experiment in self-government. At the end of 2022, Congress grew the federal allocation for civic education from $7.75 million to $23 million.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2022

For visual learners, films can be the best way to retain information on a certain topic; they are especially valuable if they include footage from real events. For textual learners, the use of films deepens our understanding by allowing us to consider history from a multitude of perspectives.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

After going over key terms and background information (as suggested by Wolfe-Rocca in the PDF version of the activity), I arranged my students in groups of four and they investigated six of the included documents. interview was instrumental in elevating the discourse within my secondary history classroom.

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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. They’ve never known life without it, and it’s where they get all their information. Sam Wineburg, Stanford University education professor.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

This year, from Seattle, Washington, to Miami, Florida, and many towns and cities in between, educators will host more than 170 grassroots events on Saturday, June 8 and throughout the month. Here are highlights from the remarks. We teach them the power of their voice and the importance of upcoming elections.

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Diane Ravitch

JUNE 20, 2021

The results, published online this week in the journal Educational Researcher, highlight what the researchers say is an urgent need to better prepare students for the realities of a world filled with a continual flow of misleading information. Students tried, mostly in vain, to discover the truth.

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NCHE

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Shauna Liverotti, an education coordinator at NCHE, sat down with me to discuss her views on the current history education landscape. I wanted to know how the landscape has shifted during her career, particularly since she first collaborated with NCHE as a spotlight educator in 2017. That’s not where the kids are.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It fosters an awareness of these critical issues and encourages students to think critically and develop well-informed solutions. This blog post explores the critical role of social studies in shaping engaged, informed citizens and how the C3 Framework helps elevate the rigor of social studies education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

They argue that their general Roadmap is meant to “inspire and inform” curriculum and standards authors, and they thus do not endorse any particular curriculum. Is American history education the problem? Related: Most Mississippians can’t pass U.S. citizenship exam.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 28, 2024

History Education and the Long-Term Legacies of Violent Conflict Jonas Heering , Georgetown University Powerful Friends or Dangerous Dependencies?

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

” B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty, and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Our work aims to bring an end to the occupation.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Redrafting of the history standards started in 2021 under the administration of Ralph Northam, the former Democratic governor. But in August 2022, the new proposed standards, which included recommendations from the state’s African American History Education Commission, were put on hold to allow Youngkin appointees a chance to review them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

At the new board’s first meeting in January 2022, members of its new majority attacked proposed AP World History textbooks for not focusing enough on the “meat and potatoes of history,” and complained that elementary social studies didn’t adequately “focus on the greatness of America.” Then there was the curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Or, as journalist Stephen Sawchuk has written , “A history education rooted in facts, evidence, and well-argued positions might be a beginning step toward healthier, more productive, and more engaged citizenry. And while it’s clear that schools matter, the size of that influence is debatable. But it is hardly an inoculation.

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