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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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Webinar: Strategies for Teaching American Politics in Turbulent Times

Political Science Now

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswegos broader civic engagement efforts.

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The Timing Is Right for Anthro-Journo

Anthropology News

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.”

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

The Hechinger Report

It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in. The lottery losers attended a variety of other schools, from traditional public schools to private schools to other charter schools. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

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Call for Fellowship Applications: Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History

Society for Classical Studies

The Center for Premodern Studies (CPS) is the home for collaborative scholarship and outreach in the historical humanities and social sciences at the University of Minnesota.

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Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows

Society for Classical Studies

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:37 Image The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are excited to announce a three-year series of visiting fellowships titled “Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History.”

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TEACHER VOICE: The black men who proved that a student like me could be a teacher like them

The Hechinger Report

Among the policy recommendations, we must: Prepare all teachers for the classroom with an emphasis on how to support every student academically and social-emotionally. Related: More black and Hispanic science teachers could mean more scientists of color. It was the right program for preparing me to teach in Chicago.

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