teaching history

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• SOURCE: Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
  11/17/2020
  

  Whose History? AI Uncovers Who Gets Attention in High School Textbooks

  Natural language processing reveals huge differences in how Texas history textbooks treat men, women, and people of color.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  11/18/2020
  

  Hong Kong's New Rules have Created Confusion in the Classroom. Some Parents are Pulling their Children Out

  While pro-Beijing lawmakers stress the need to promote national unity through civics education, educators, historians and parents in Hong Kong expect censorship and indoctrination under new restrictions. 

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  11/16/2020
  

  Native History Is Washington History, And Tribes Are Helping Schools Teach It

  Teachers are working to implement a 2015 change to Washington state's history standards that requires content developed with the state's native tribes. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  11/19/2020
  

  Virtual Assignment Charrette: Get Feedback on Your Virtual Assignments and Assessments

  The AHA's virtual meeting will include a workshop for virtual history assignments and assessments; applicants can receive in-depth feedback on design and execution. 

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• 11/15/2020
  

  Recovering Acts of Progressive Patriotism: Teaching Through Protest Music

  by Matthew Lindaman

  A history professor reflects on a course teaching critical perspectives on patriotism through protest and music that articulates an inclusive and progressive nationalism.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/9/2020
  

  The Contours of Black Studies in American Public Schools

  by Alexander Hyres

  A historian of education argues that Black studies was not an invention of the 1960s; its flawed implementation reflected the long battles Black activists fought against hostile and indifferent school administrations for decades before. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  11/7/2020
  

  Why the 1776 Commission is a Bad Idea

  by Diane Ravitch

  "In addition to violating the law, the 1776 Commission is a silly idea because history is not written by federal commissions, but by historians."

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• 11/8/2020
  

  Will Trump's Last Fight be Against Howard Zinn (and America's History Teachers)?

  by Robert Cohen

  A scholar of history education says Howard Zinn's papers show that the late (and lately demonized) historian achieved something Trump fears even more than left-wing propaganda: helping students critically engage with the past. 

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• 11/8/2020
  

  Blaming the Messenger: Trump, the KKK, and the War on Historians

  by David Welky

  Conservative demands for "patriotic" history education echo the culture war fought by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/5/2020
  

  Although Now Required by California Law, Ethnic Studies Courses Likely to be Met with Resistance

  by Nolan L. Cabrera

  A scholar who studies racial dynamics on college campuses, argues the benefits of required ethnic studie courses outweigh their liabilities.

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• SOURCE: RetroReport
  11/5/2020
  

  Inside Retro Report's Fact Checking Process

  Joe Hogan, head of fact-checking at Retro Report, explains why fact-checking is a needed skill today.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/3/2020
  

  We Must Do More to Honor the People and Places Lost to Violent Racism

  by Walter Greason

  Teaching a course about collective racial violence in the United States showed a professor the extent to which this history is both integral to the nation and completely hidden from the majority of Americans. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  11/3/2020
  

  'You Can’t Be Silent.' Schools Brace for the Presidential Election Aftermath

  After a difficult election in 2016 saw a rise in racist bullying and classroom incivility, schools have taken steps to structure more productive conversations about politics and hope that they will help increase civic literacy for high school students. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/05/2020
  

  Teaching: Making Sense of the Election

  Anne Berg, historian of European nationalism, discusses how she conducted her class meetings on November 4 as the presidential election remained undecided. 

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  11/2/2020
  

  Trump Signs Executive Order To Establish A 1776 Commission To Instill ‘Patriotic Education’

  President Trump on Monday signed an executive order to establish a 1776 Commission to advise the president on how America’s founding story should be taught in schools.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/31/2020
  

  Now Is A Good Time To Talk To Kids About Civics

  Election time is a perfect opportunity to help kids build up a foundation of knowledge.

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• SOURCE: The White House
  11/2/2020
  

  Executive Order on Establishing the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission

  Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for the establishment of a "1776 Commission" in the Department of Education to aid "local communities reasserting control of how children receive patriotic education in their schools."

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• SOURCE: KJZZ
  10/26/2020
  

  Arizona Education Board Votes To Require Students Learn About The Holocaust, Other Genocides

  Esther Basch, a Holocaust survivor, and her daughter Rachel Basch Turet told the board that many of the people they speak with know about World War II, but have no idea of "the extent of horrors that happened to the Jews in Europe.”

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  10/22/2020
  

  Is It Time for All Students to Take Ethnic Studies?

  The position of ethnic studies in university curricula reflects changing intellectual currents but also longstanding battles over resources and power in higher education institutions. 

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• 10/25/2020
  

  "Refusing to Be Governed Like That": The Dangers of Trusting in History's Judgment

  by Joan Wallach Scott

  If, as the abolitionist Theodore Parker wrote, “the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice,” then why bother to hasten its arrival? Those who don’t believe that history will guarantee a better future will act to bring a different future into being.