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Together: Using Inquiry to Teach the Armenian Genocide

C3 Teachers

Were my students truly doing history? Ive long had a passion for teaching difficult histories, but what I didnt know was that someone else in the room shared that same passionspecifically, for the Armenian Genocide. Ive always defined myself as a human rights educator, centering that theme throughout my 23 years of teaching.

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OPINION: How best do we teach kids about Holocaust horrors? Show them what it was like

The Hechinger Report

One even said she had “never wanted to learn history’’ before. A high school teacher who shared feedback on the project said, “The VR brings history to life in a really different way.”. The teachers believe that the hands-on, independent nature of virtual reality will bring reluctant students to the study of history.

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Seminar Series on SNCC and Grassroots Organizing

Zinn Education Project

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

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TEACHER VOICE: What was troubling enough as 20th century history is happening in the present time

The Hechinger Report

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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OPINION: Betsy DeVos’ slippery slope of religion, ethnicity and race

The Hechinger Report

I regularly offer a course at my university called Teaching the Holocaust: History and Memory. With that, statements that are anti-Zionist would be considered as hateful and offensive as the more traditional tropes and stereotypes that have plagued Jews and Judaism for millennia. Photo: Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Wire.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects. This gives the appearance that the hearts were shot from the gun.