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TAH Multiday Prompts Discussion of Partisanship, Then and Now

Teaching American History

Invited to attend a TAH multiday seminar on the Cold War at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, social studies teacher Cade Lohrding was thrilled. Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas. Yet we’re all experiencing the same problems.

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Engage Students with Authentic Learning at Home

Digital Promise

When Josh Luukkonen’s school closed due to COVID-19, Luukkonen’s junior high social studies students were studying economics. Identify technologies to support powerful learning at home in our Online Learning Resource library. Opportunities for Authentic Connections are Everywhere.

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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

Teaching American History

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. Many white Southerners did not accept integration as unavoidable until the Civil Rights Act passed in the summer of 1964, when I was ten years old.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs. Lee Academy in Clarksdale, Mississippi.