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Celebrating Black History Education: A Collection

Education Week - Social Studies

This year’s special Education Week Opinion project celebrating Black History Month focuses on what is going well in Black history education.

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Who’s Improving Black History Education for Everyone? Three Stand-Outs (Opinion)

Education Week - Social Studies

Recent highlights in Black history education, from the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education’s LaGarrett J.

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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

The post Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Excerpt below and the full class here.

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Most Mississippians can’t pass U.S. citizenship exam. Is American history education the problem?

The Hechinger Report

Officials from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation say these results point to longstanding problems with the way American history is taught in schools. This story about history education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Learning Together: NCHE’s Shauna Liverotti on the Importance of Meeting Students Where They Are

NCHE

Shauna Liverotti, an education coordinator at NCHE, sat down with me to discuss her views on the current history education landscape. I wanted to know how the landscape has shifted during her career, particularly since she first collaborated with NCHE as a spotlight educator in 2017.

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Maybe you haven’t noticed. SHEG is DIG. DIG is SHEG.

History Tech

The Stanford History Education Group has been around since 2002. Sam Wineburg, SHEG’s founder, one year earlier had published a book titled Thinking Historically and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past.

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The NCHE Board of Directors Statement Regarding the South Dakota Social Studies Standards

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The National Council for History Education stands by history teachers in South Dakota. Quality history education in K-12 classrooms is different from post-secondary spaces. K-12 history instruction and standards must balance content, skills, pedagogy, and classroom management.