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Decades Project for US History

Active History Teacher

I have tried several projects over the years: Oral History projects, “pick a topic from this year and research deeper”, Instagram summaries, etc. Join The Active History Teacher Community! High School Middle School STARR/EOC review JOIN Thank you for subscribing! Sound familiar?

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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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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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STUDENT VOICES: When you’re a teenager you feel like an outsider already

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. Lilianna Salcedo, a 10th-grader at USC Hybrid High School in Los Angeles. How would you describe your school?

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Karis Mazyck , principal of Blythewood Middle School. Orion Salazar, eighth grader at Taos Middle School.