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Teaching Job Skills in Middle School

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

Teaching Job Skills Middle school is a crucial time for students to start thinking about their future careers and what they want to do when they grow up. One of the best ways to do this is by teaching job skills in middle school. One of the best ways to do this is by teaching job skills in middle school.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Washington University in St.

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Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids — and ignites controversy

The Hechinger Report

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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Florida Rejects 35% of Social Studies Texts as Too Leftist

Diane Ravitch

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the State Education Department had rejected 35% of the social studies textbooks submitted for review because of leftist content. The DeSantis administration objects to any references to “social justice” or negative references to capitalism. history and world history courses.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. In kindergarten and middle school, we only ever talked about Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King.” Until now, the students said, the African American history they’d been taught in school tended to be superficial. “In

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A ‘civil rights camp’ teaches kids a history they’re not learning in school

The Hechinger Report

Trevion Williams (left) and Jashun Griffith (right), both 13, students at Crystal Springs Middle School in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, chat at the Haley Farm lake gazebo. The theme of the five-day event was “Hope for Our Future: From Weeping to Working for Justice for Our Children.”. CLINTON, Tenn. Mississippi State Sen.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

middle school work on a Reconstruction lesson. To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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