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May 2, 2024 · The AHA has vigorously opposed legislative efforts across the nation to discourage, harass, and threaten US history teachers by limiting the use of particular words, ideas, concepts, and sources. This legislation rests on assumptions about what is being taught in our nation’s classrooms and narrow-minded notions about what should be taught.
Dec 7, 2022 · Americans Do Disagree on How History Should Be Taught—But Less Than They Think. By Sarah Schwartz — December 07, 2022 4 min read. iStock/Getty Images Plus. How should schools teach the nation’s...
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Nov 8, 2020 · Chuck Yarborough on helping kids make connections between the past and the present. By Kristina Rizga. Olivia Locher. November 8, 2020. Editor’s Note: In 1988, a teacher most commonly had 15 ...
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While most state standards do directly mention the teaching of two defining moments in American history, slavery and the civil rights movement, what states expect their students to learn about these topics can vary drastically. In Massachusetts, the social studies standardsmention slavery and enslaved people more than 60 times. In 3rd grade, studen...
CBS News looked at each states' standards to see how they describe the cause of the Civil War, and again found, it greatly varies. Utah's state standards assert that, "The Civil War era and Reconstruction are important aspects of U.S. history, essential to understanding modern America, including race relations and inequality." Many states, includin...
Recent movements like Black Lives Matter and the attack in Charlottesville helped jumpstart conversations about race and racism in America, but those conversations appear to be happening less frequently in the nation's classrooms. Less than half of the states in their social studies standards directly ask students to learn about racism. In some sta...
There is no national curriculum for teaching United States history. And Heafner said the process for adopting state standards, especially in a field like social studies that wrestles with the history of racism or white supremacy, can be politicized. "There are ideologies and beliefs that tend to guide the decisions that are made at the policy level...
And while states set expectations for what students learn, experts say in the end, it is up to individual districts to decide what and how students are taught—and up to teachers to bring those lessons to life. That can be a problem, too. The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture report found that teachers often lack "c...
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May 1, 2012 · The State of K-12 History Teaching: Challenges to Innovation. Lisa Hutton, Tim Keirn, and Dave Neumann | May 1, 2012. In the last decade, developments in history education have been poised to deepen the quality of K–12 history instruction. A growing body of scholarship has challenged the conventional classroom emphasis on the past as heritage ...
Teaching American History programs are different from other teaching seminars you might attend. In our seminars, participants read primary sources from American history and spend their time in thoughtful discussion. They leave with a richer appreciation for broader themes in history and a better understanding of how to bring discussion-based ...
Sep 16, 2020 · Hearing about backlash to what kids are learning in U.S. History classrooms? It could have been last week—or 150 years ago.
