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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

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Contents Action Plan Overview | Action Plan Step-by-Step Guide Media Guide | Posters and Graphics Messages for Signs, Social Media, and Chants | Record a Statement Coordinators and Co-Sponsors | Workshops and More Events It’s time to take action. Interested in adding your organization as a co-sponsor? Sign Up to Host an Event 3.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

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OPINION: The wrong roadmap for teaching American history

The Hechinger Report

Related: Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies? This is particularly true for learning our history. First, strengthen history curricula at the state level, which — for better or for worse — is where the authority rests to control curriculum. Is American history education the problem?

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement Andy Rotherham, who was appointed to the state board of education in 2022 by Youngkin, said the outcome of the social studies debate shows that people can get past politics to a good result.

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

The Hechinger Report

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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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

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. Other institutions, along with a lack of leadership, have played a role in the current crisis, he said. I personally love it because you know what?

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Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies?

The Hechinger Report

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.