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Teaching Irish American History

Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

Teaching Irish American History Mar. This overview of Irish American history can help you teach students why they see so many Irish influences today. 10, 2025 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER You only need to walk into a store and see St Patricks Day decorations to know Irish Americans have profoundly impacted our countrys culture.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. History class.

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Waiting for the traveling teacher: Remote rural schools need more hands-on help

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Eventually the school superintendent, who doubles as a special education teacher and a substitute, asked if he’d be interested in doing more; the schools have been short-staffed for years. million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts.

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‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. Now a middle school technology teacher at S.P. Arnett, a public school in nearby Westlake, she can relate to her students. Tiffany Guillory is a middle school technology teacher at S.P.

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Activist students go to summer camp to learn how to help institute a ‘green new deal’ on their campuses

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Green New Deal for Schools is so important right now in the U.S., where our school buildings are crumbling, where our students are not being adequately prepared to face the realities of the climate crisis, where there are vast inequities across race and class.”

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How one high-poverty district is adding virtual reality to its classrooms

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

Although the high-poverty Cornell School District has only about 630 students, it was able to take the plunge into virtual reality with a $20,000 foundation-funded grant provided through the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, a regional public school service agency. The kids do remember facts better when they use virtual reality.”.

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A school where character matters as much as academics

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There are critics who contend that instilling social values in students is the purview of parents not schools, and others who fear that SEL could easily be used as yet another way to punish low-income students of color who don’t conform to behavioral norms.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

million public school children enrolled in special education in the United States, 13 percent of all public school students. Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. We could get no one to listen or do what was needed.”.

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Kids Don’t Learn What They Aren’t Taught

4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

Most of us who work in schools are motivated at least in part by a desire to make the world better, and it’s nice to know that our work actually makes a difference in what young people know and can do. And many elementary schools have basically not been teaching history for some time now.

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Teachers, cafeteria workers and school bus drivers should be next in line for the Covid vaccine

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

14 not only boosted her immunity for the virus, it lifted our collective hopes that this tragic period in world history would soon pass. Prioritizing schools recognizes the close connection between keeping schools open and getting people back to work. To date, the coronavirus has killed approximately 1.7

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Florida Rejects 35% of Social Studies Texts as Too Leftist

Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The textbooks are for elementary and middle school social studies classes as well as civics, economics, U.S. history and world history courses. The Legislature last year passed what the governor dubbed his “stop woke” act that outlaws the teaching of the concept in public schools.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” Parents, teachers, and students united in public backlash. Then there was the curriculum.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

Waiting for the traveling teacher: Remote rural schools need more hands-on help

‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic

Activist students go to summer camp to learn how to help institute a ‘green new deal’ on their campuses

How one high-poverty district is adding virtual reality to its classrooms

A school where character matters as much as academics

High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

Kids Don’t Learn What They Aren’t Taught

Teachers, cafeteria workers and school bus drivers should be next in line for the Covid vaccine

Florida Rejects 35% of Social Studies Texts as Too Leftist

One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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