Museum Public School Social Studies 
ED Surge
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.
Thrive in Grade Five
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
Alison Black, the Director of Indian Education for a public school district in Oklahoma, says, “Tribal sovereignty is a huge issue. When teaching about pre-Columbian or pre-contact cultures, be sure that students understand many of the tribes they are learning about have ancestors today who are still practicing their traditions.
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. of all district students) enrolled in a K-12 New York City Public School in 2021-2022.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 4, 2023
We can do this by taking field trips to local museums and historical sites, inviting experts into our classrooms, participating in programs like Empatico that connect students worldwide, creating robust class libraries and using content-rich curriculums across subject areas to build student knowledge. Related: Schools on U.S.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 7, 2023
LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School. The school is steeped in history: It was the first African American public school in Kentucky, and counts boxer Muhammad Ali among its alumni.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
Parents can follow the Twitter feed, and say, ‘Don’t you have that paper due soon in social studies class?’ ” Terrill said. Sanfelippo found his district’s social-media rallying cry during a school field trip to Fall Creek’s history museum, where vintage banners, pennants and pins were emblazoned “Go Crickets!”. “We
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 16, 2020
I’d spent the school year reporting about New Orleans, a city whose population is one-third white but whose public schools contained nearly all children of color, most of them black. Many of those schools were led by white principals and a fleet of white teachers.
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