Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

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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Social Studies Social Justice K-12 Civics 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. Texas’ legislation on teaching social studies , adopted in June, reflects this conservative critique.

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Social Justice Education American History K-12 112

C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a social studies assessment course as part of a cross-content assessment course this spring, I started thinking about some of the tension points surrounding not only teacher education, but also student assessment. 6; Love, 2019).

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Social Studies Social Justice Controversial Topics Pedagogy 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2022

How can tests actually promote social justice? I used to teach social studies and every assessment had Thomas Jefferson on it. When I first went back to grad school, I studied what was the equivalent of social justice at Emory. You’ve said that you want improve tests and make them “anti-racist.”

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Social Justice Cultures Social Studies Research 91

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Santana has been teaching the course at Philadelphia’s Parkway Northwest High School for Peace and Social Justice since 2019. On the Wednesday following the A.P.

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History American History Teaching K-12 98

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

Now she returns with three other educators — Fatma Elsamra, math, Reem Fakhry, science, and Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi, social studies — to focus more specifically on the curriculum piece of this work, approaches we can take to integrate Arab narratives into our teaching and curriculum. “They tend to be overlooked. . at that time.

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Social Studies Cultures History Pedagogy 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

So when they heard about a week-long program in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills that would teach them about the Civil Rights Movement of the past and how it connects to the social justice struggle of today, they were eager to attend. Mississippi State Sen. The bill was passed into law in 2006 and became effective in 2011.

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History Teaching Social Justice Advocacy 85

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

The third-generation Japanese American congresswoman was a trailblazer who advocated for women’s rights, civil rights, education, and social justice. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.

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Heritage Teaching K-12 Museum 59

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Area Educators for Social Justice has secured the following co-sponsors for this year, in addition to the co-host, the African American Civil War Museum and Memorial. Workshops and More Events More Social Justice Education Events The post Teach Truth Day of Action 2024 appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Area Educators for Social Justice has secured the following co-sponsors for this year, in addition to the co-host, the African American Civil War Museum and Memorial. Workshops and More Events Check out workshops by More Social Justice Education Events The post Teach Truth Day of Action 2025 appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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Teaching Historic Sites Museum Library 52

Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

” At an evocative point in a story (or a point of uncertainty in science or social studies), we ask open questions like: “What are you thinking?” Thinking together demands collective participation toward a collaborative end. “What are you thinking?”

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Pedagogy Library Social Studies Social Justice 259

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

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. history and social studies curriculums. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 108

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948. The spring 2024 issue offers a collection of articles and other resources on teaching about Palestine-Israel amid the growing attack on social justice education.

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Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

That is our social justice call to action during these times.” Round 1 is kind of like the game Taboo: One player comes up and gives as many social studies clues as possible without saying the word and the card and tries to get their team to guess the word. Kids are put into three teams. 1 point per card.

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Teaching K-12 Pedagogy Social Justice 175

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

Her seventh grade social studies class, like every other in Jefferson County Public Schools, the largest school district in Kentucky, would be online. Hi, I’m Amia Bridgeford, your student’s social studies teacher. As the sun bore down, she hoped to see the faces of the students she was now responsible for.

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