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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

When students are given permission to explore the whole truth without frills, we can discuss solutions in the form of direct nonviolent action and civil disobedience that actually mean something in the real world. Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S.

History 52
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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 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.