Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A student, who would only be in my class for less than a month before transferring, asked it during my third year of teaching and my first year teaching a high school history class. Like many history teachers, I love the subject I teach—the events, the historical figures, and the stories they leave behind.

History 52

History Social Studies History Education Economics 52

History Tech

JULY 19, 2024

The Stanford History Education Group has been around since 2002. Sam Wineburg, SHEG’s founder, one year earlier had published a book titled Thinking Historically and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past.

Social Studies 140

Social Studies History Education History Primary Sources 140

Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

For the past three summers, educators, students, parents, and allies have joined across the country to speak out against politicians attempting to restrict the freedoms of educators and students. What : Day of Action to Teach the Truth National Press Call (The Day of Action is on June 8. )

Teaching 59

Teaching Social Justice History History Education 59

ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

If we want to truly equip our students to understand and navigate the political environment that exists today, we have to think about how we teach the discipline of history more broadly. we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts. To reach every student in the U.S.,

Civics 129

Civics Education Civic Engagement K-12 129

NCHE

JUNE 25, 2023

The National Council for History Education stands in support of history teachers in Florida. Teachers are professionals and experts in their field, and their subject-matter knowledge and understanding of how to accurately and adequately teach a complicated past are critical to student comprehension and achievement.

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Social Studies K-12 History Education American History 100

NCHE

APRIL 21, 2023

The National Council for History Education stands by history teachers in South Dakota. Quality history education in K-12 classrooms is different from post-secondary spaces. K-12 history instruction and standards must balance content, skills, pedagogy, and classroom management.

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Social Studies K-12 Pedagogy History Education 100

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Department of Education launched an unusual marketing blitz. It includes a TV ad that encourages people to go into teaching, especially to promote more diversity in the teaching profession. Teaching is a journey that shapes lives. Are you ready?” We tackle those questions on this week’s EdSurge Podcast.

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K-12 Advocacy High School Teaching 119

NCHE

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2021, the National Council for History Education has partnered with the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources program on a nationwide program, “The Rural Experience in America”.

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Library Primary Sources Local History Professional Development 130

Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

One of the biggest challenges in history education is engaging students in meaningful analysis while encouraging collaboration and critical thinking. Enter Snorkl , an AI-powered whiteboard tool that allows students to interact with historical content by annotating images, adding text, drawings, or even recording their voices.

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Primary Sources History Critical Thinking History Education 52

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As educators, we would tell our students they could become anything, while simultaneously teaching them in a school building that had no soap in the bathrooms, broken computers and a nurse for half a day, only on Fridays. Every day, as a 40-year-old, I struggle with these losses and imagine what it’s like for the 14-year-olds I teach.

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Advocacy Teaching Public School History Education 120

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. The Right has declared war on teaching the truth about structural racism and sexism and on LGBTQ+ youth. This is a national call. The group can be any size.

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

Stanford History Education Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

SUNY Will Teach Students to Ethically Use AI lee_2 Mon, 02/03/2025 - 17:27 01/16/25 [link]

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The report suggests that schools must teach students the skills they need to be savvy consumers of news and information they encounter online. In the coming months, Stanford’s History Education Group plans to release materials to help teachers do so. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Civics Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 112

Stanford History Education Group

JANUARY 10, 2025

Sam Wineburg Among Most Top Scholars of Curriculum, Teaching, & Learning lee_2 Fri, 01/10/2025 - 16:55 01/10/25 [link]

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Teaching 40

Zinn Education Project

JULY 30, 2024

The fellowship offers support for a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together for two years. Purpose Once again, educators are at the center of battles over what U.S. history children will learn and the kind of future they will create.

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History Education History Teaching Education 52

Doing Social Studies

JANUARY 27, 2022

This network of professionals has helped transform my teaching practice and feeds my teacher soul. As a member and current president of the Kansas Council for Social Studies, the working relationship between the professional Social Studies organizations in Kansas is one that I deeply cherish and am proud to be a part of. just a reminder.

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Social Studies Primary Sources Geography Economics 67

Stanford History Education Group

DECEMBER 6, 2023

‘There’s Nothing More Critical’: California Makes Schools Teach Kids to Spot Fake News kerrd Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:10 12/05/23 [link]

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Stanford History Education Group

DECEMBER 6, 2023

‘There’s Nothing More Critical’: California Makes Schools Teach Kids to Spot Fake News kerrd Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:10 12/05/23 [link]

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The institutes featured below are a few of the ones that could be of interest to peoples history educators. The deadline to apply is March 5, 2025. Visit the NEH website to browse all of the 2025 summer programs.

History Education 52

History Education History Humanities Teaching 52

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. Sue is the executive director of the Western Illinois Museum in Macomb, IL.

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Oral History Public History History Museum 100

Digital Promise

JULY 2, 2018

When the Stanford History Education Group released findings showing that most students couldn’t tell sponsored ads from real articles, among other miscues, it intensified the scramble for tools and strategies to help students discern better. Teach students how to open multiple pages within one window by right clicking.

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History Education History Research Teaching 60

ASHP CML

MARCH 5, 2024

Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - 14:23 The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! If you have experience developing and coordinating digital history projects and a passion for teaching history, apply to become our Assistant Director of Digital Projects.

History 40

History Professional Development Pedagogy American History 40

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.

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Museum Archiving 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. Teaching Stories Teachers who received the hardback edition have shared their appreciation and teaching stories, including those below.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) supports and defends the right to teach truthfully.

Teaching 52

Teaching Leadership History Education History 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

Other findings from the national exam, known as the Nation’s ‘Report Card,’ show that dedicated resources for teaching civics results in better student performance, but that those resources are sorely lacking: Only 49 percent of students who took the NAEP test said they have a class that is mainly focused on civics or U.S.

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Civics Primary Sources Civic Engagement K-12 129

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2022

Each of these movies teaches us something new about the lives of people from historically disadvantaged groups and encourages us to advocate for greater change. Related: What do classroom conversations about race, identity and history really look like?

History 98

History History Education Cultures Public School 98

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

On June 4, the Zinn Education Project hosted a Press Call about the 4th Annual National Teach Truth Day of Action. For the past three summers, educators, students, parents, and allies have joined across the country to speak out against politicians attempting to restrict the freedoms of educators and students.

Teaching 86

Teaching Social Justice Library Heritage 86

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

With thousands of teachers using Zinn Education Project lessons each year, we hear amazing stories about the impact these lessons have in the classroom. I executed the COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement activity with my 9th grade U.S. History students. Here are just a few.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

These problems are compounded not only by the systemic under-compensation of teachers, resulting in many leaving the profession in the wake of the pandemic, but also by book bans, the questioning of provable facts and known science and the avoidance of the teaching of critical thinking skills. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

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Civics Education Critical Thinking History 114

Zinn Education Project

MAY 6, 2024

However, across the country, legislatures have passed laws to criminalize teaching honestly about U.S. history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. SNCC veteran Judy Richardson said at a Teach Truth rally last year that we organize so that “The fascists can’t stop us!” Who and Where?

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites History Human Rights 52

Zinn Education Project

APRIL 25, 2024

(Pat Nabong/ Sun-Times ) As Jesse Hagopian writes in the Teach Palestine issue of Rethinking Schools , “the grim reality is that not even the schools have been saved from being turned into cemeteries.”

Human Rights 144

Human Rights Humanities K-12 History 144

Diane Ravitch

JUNE 20, 2021

“This study is not an indictment of the students—they did what they’ve been taught to do—but the study should be troubling to anyone who cares about the future of democracy,” said Joel Breakstone, director of the Stanford History Education Group and the study’s lead author. “We

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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. After COVID, it got worse. “I

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History Education History Teaching Education 130

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

The American Historical Association just released a three-year study of teaching U.S. history in secondary schools. More than a quarter of the teachers surveyed use Zinn Education Project resources. Should we not have resources to teach about the roots of the climate crisis?

History Education 114

History Education History Education Public School 114

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

A group of more than 300 historians and education experts published their answer — a “ Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy.” Indeed, the local Civic Learning Plans its supporters propose would just further fragment the history our students learn. Is American history education the problem? citizenship exam.

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