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Strengthening Civic Education: The Role of High-Quality Curriculum and Teaching Strategies

TCI

History in elementary and middle school; also require at least one year of U.S. History and one semester of civics in high school. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75

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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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A shocking number of young people can’t separate fact from fiction online

The Hechinger Report

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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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. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

Stanford’s myth busters, led by education professor Sam Wineburg and doctoral student Sarah Cotcamp McGrew, have field-tested 15 news-literacy tasks of varying difficulty, with about 50 more in the works. Can middle-school students spot “native advertising” (ads masquerading as articles) on a crowded news website?

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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. Please go to [link] more information.

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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!