Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2025

This years special Education Week Opinion project offers perspectives and guidance from educators for improving Black history education.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

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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.

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Social Studies History Education History Primary Sources 140

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. Big Idea: What lasting impact did this have on history? Timeline Construction History is all about connections. Depth & Complexity: Ethics: Was the event just or unjust?

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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. In 1916, Charles H.

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History Social Studies History Education Economics 52

Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2025

Do you know how to put Black history sources in context?

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Primary Sources History Education History Education 48

ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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Civics Education Civic Engagement K-12 131

NCHE

APRIL 21, 2023

The National Council for History Education stands by history teachers in South Dakota. In the elementary grades, the history content and skills are not developmentally appropriate, nor are they reflective of the historical content training that K-5 teachers receive.

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Social Studies K-12 Pedagogy History Education 100

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”. Read the blog post about The Source on the Library of Congress’ website here.

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Library Primary Sources Local History Professional Development 130

NCHE

JUNE 25, 2023

The National Council for History Education stands in support of history teachers in Florida. The social studies standards focused on African American history, recently approved by the Florida Board of Education, sanitize historical acts of violence against Black Americans. Slavery is, and was, wrong.

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Social Studies K-12 History Education American History 100

HistoryRewriter

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Game of Quotes can be easily adapted to help students master historical thinking skills, whether you use the College Board (AP) definitions, the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) definitions aka Digital Inquiry Group (DIG), or use the definitions from The American Historical Association (AHA).

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Library Social Studies History Education History 130

ASHP CML

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment. This week, researcher Carli Snyder shares a primary source.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. In July, Ajith and three of her friends testified before the Texas State Board of Education, demanding changes to the way students are taught.

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Teaching Elementary School Social Justice American History 145

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.

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Teaching Social Justice Library History Education 81

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the coming months, Stanford’s History Education Group plans to release materials to help teachers do so. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Civics Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 112

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For a long portion of their history, education schools didn’t have to think much about recruitment. “We We just said, ‘Here we are, come, we’re ready for you,’” says Stan Harward, the associate dean of Utah Valley University’s College of Education. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. Media literacy is often defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate information or media.

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Teaching Civics K-12 Social Science 134

ASHP CML

MARCH 5, 2024

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - 14:23 The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! Professional Level: Advanced Education: Advanced degree in U.S. Please go to [link] more information.

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History Professional Development Pedagogy American History 40

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Right now the educators may be in one of the greatest exoduses in history. Educators are and will continue to leave in record numbers. All of this is demoralizing. We love teaching, we love students. All we want is a true say in how our schools are run. Teachers will either leave silently or will leave fighting.

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Advocacy Teaching Public School History Education 120

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Arizona State University, for example, is rapidly increasing the number of online courses in its continuing and professional education division, which confers both badges and certificates.

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History Education Tradition History Research 106

Zinn Education Project

JULY 30, 2024

We are thrilled to announce our second class of Zinn Education Project Prentiss Charney fellows for the 2024–2026 school years. The fellowship offers support for a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together for two years. history children will learn and the kind of future they will create.

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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. Follow the conversation on Twitter: #TeachTruth The post Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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Doing Social Studies

JANUARY 27, 2022

The four groups dedicated to serving the teachers of Kansas are: Kansas Council for History Education Kansas Geography Alliance Kansas Council for Economic Education Kansas Council for Social Studies The cool thing is that while we all have a specific area of focus, we all have one common goal – sharing our love of history, government, and (..)

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Social Studies Primary Sources Geography Economics 67

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.

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History Education History Humanities Teaching 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2024

The institutes featured below are a few of the ones that could be of interest to people’s history educators.

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K-12 Geography American History History 52

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 teacher-led rallies received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement.

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Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

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. Read the original version here.

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History Education History Research Teaching 58

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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Stanford History Education Group

MARCH 21, 2022

Media Literacy is Desperately Needed in Classrooms Around the Country, Advocates Say kerrd Mon, 03/21/2022 - 10:03 03/18/22 [link]

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Stanford History Education Group

MARCH 25, 2022

How Improving Civic Literacy Can Reinforce Democracy kerrd Fri, 03/25/2022 - 10:03 03/25/22 [link]

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Stanford History Education Group

MARCH 21, 2022

Media Literacy is Desperately Needed in Classrooms Around the Country, Advocates Say kerrd Mon, 03/21/2022 - 10:03 03/18/22 [link]

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Stanford History Education Group

MARCH 25, 2022

How Improving Civic Literacy Can Reinforce Democracy kerrd Fri, 03/25/2022 - 10:03 03/25/22 [link]

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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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Stanford History Education Group

JANUARY 17, 2025

Misinformation About California Fires Is Spreading Like, Well, Wildfire lee_2 Fri, 01/17/2025 - 16:39 01/16/25 [link]

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Stanford History Education Group

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

How Can You Tell if an Image or Video Is Real? Most Likely, You Can’t lee_2 Tue, 11/05/2024 - 09:11 11/04/24 [link]

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Stanford History Education Group

OCTOBER 29, 2024

What Makes Students (and the Rest of Us) Fall for AI Misinformation? lee_2 Tue, 10/29/2024 - 21:38 10/25/24 [link]

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