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Decades Project for US History

Active History Teacher

Have you ever assigned a decades project for your US History class? You’ve finished your US History curriculum and need something engaging for students to go as an end of the year project? It’s time to try a US History end of the year decades project! Join The Active History Teacher Community! Are you like me?

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Using Conversational Video

HistoryRewriter

This post will describe the importance of having secondary students engage in oral history projects and describe a new Artificial Intelligence technology StoryFile that can help students practice posing questions to pre-recorded conversational video without the heightened anxiety that comes with actually talking to a real person.

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STUDENT VOICES: The education system encourages students to be dead inside

The Hechinger Report

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. It was meant to be a school that was both very good academically and that supported the arts. Do they feel that way?

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. It is one of only a few school districts in the state that is requiring masks after the state Supreme Court put a hold on a mask mandate ban South Carolina legislators approved in the spring. I like [being back in school] a lot.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

In middle school, he was selected for the Rutgers Future Scholars Program, which provides academic support and college scholarships to low-income students. Despite the program’s guidance, he missed a lot of class in high school, got some Ds and Fs, and was barely accepted to Rutgers University-Newark.

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STUDENT VOICES: If I weren’t here I’d probably be dead

The Hechinger Report

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Did you face any challenges when you began attending school in the United States? Do they feel that way?

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

The district will be holding an expanded summer school this year and is investing in mental health counselors and early literacy. . Katina Harris , middle school English teacher and president of the local teachers’ union. Even when we were in elementary school, like with the stock market crash, everyone moved.