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TAH Multiday Prompts Discussion of Partisanship, Then and Now

Teaching American History

With ambitions to run for elective office, Lohrding entered Wichita State University as an undergraduate political science major. He switched to 6 th through 12 th grade social studies education after concluding that politics had grown too ugly. Today he works to promote vigorous but civil discussion in his classroom.

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Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies?

The Hechinger Report

But as the nation has splintered along political and geographic lines, the fights have intensified, compounding the challenges facing social studies, a set of subjects including civics, history and political science that has long been starved for classroom time and resources.