education

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/3/19
  

  Why Did U.N.C. Give Millions to a Neo-Confederate Group?

  by William Sturkey

  The University of North Carolina’s settlement over a controversial statue is a subsidy for white nationalism.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  12/2/19
  

  James Grossman Writes Article on Career Diversity: "Revising Revisited: Words Matter When It Comes to Career Diversity"

  by James Grossman

  Historians need to write and speak carefully. A single word or phrase, a particularly evocative metaphor, can undermine a nuanced argument pointing in a very different direction.

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• 12/1/2019
  

  Losing Sight of Jefferson and Falling into Plato

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Socratic Styled Teaching in Twenty-First Century American Classrooms

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/21/19
  

  Don’t despair if your teen wants to major in history instead of science

  by Ian Milligan

  Choosing to become a history major is a future-friendly investment. A history degree teaches skills that are in short supply today: the ability to interpret context, and — crucially — where we’ve been, so as to better understand the world around us today and tomorrow.

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• SOURCE: Times Higher Education
  11/21/19
  

  Ten rules for succeeding in academia through upward toxicity

  by Irina Dumitrescu

  Universities preach meritocracy but, in reality, bend over backwards to protect toxic personalities. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/15/19
  

  Teaching impeaching: History comes to life in school as teachers seize on this historic moment. Here’s what some are doing — and how.

  “All too often, we look at history as these singular events that happened long ago. We sometimes try to connect many of those events to the present, but we fail to realize sometimes that the events that are unfolding around us every day are historic, too."

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  11/14/19
  

  Using Digital History in the Classroom

  New to digital history? These three steps may help you incorporate #DigHist into your classroom.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  11/13/19
  

  How we fail our Chinese students

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  If Chinese students spend several years in the United States and decide they don’t like democracy, we must not be making a strong enough case for it.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/8/19
  

  The Trouble With ‘Ole Miss’

  by Marc Parry

  The U. of Mississippi has distanced itself from much of its Confederate past. Will it ever do the same with its popular nickname?

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/9/19
  

  Nebraska Just Approved More Inclusive Social Studies Guidelines. They're a Window Into the Changing Way Kids Are Learning U.S. History

  Steps taken in Nebraska are a window into the way that conversation is changing, amid increased public scrutiny of what American students are learning about history.

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• SOURCE: EdSurge
  11/4/19
  

  The Problem With How We Teach History

  by Rachel Burstein

  Students are still often building up to what they have been told is true, rather than finding truth on their own.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
  10/31/19
  

  High School AP Government Class Helps Families of Civil Rights Murder Victims After Lobbying Congress

  by Ethan Ehrenhaft

  An AP Government Class Helps Families of Civil Rights Murder Victims

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• SOURCE: BU Today
  10/15/19
  

  Historian Andrew David Teaching Impeachment during an Impeachment Inquiry

  Andrew David pivots his lecture to teach about American presidential history as it unfolds.

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• SOURCE: The Orange County Register
  9/19/19
  

  Eric Gonzaba Uses T-shirts, address books to explore LGBTQ history

  by Susan Gill Vardon

  Dr. Gonzaba is excited about finding ways to involve his students in a project he has been working on since 2014 — Wearing Gay History, an award-winning digital mapping project that explores the global history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through T-shirts.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/12/19
  

  What White Kids Learn About Race in School

  by Eric Loomis

  Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. schools remain largely segregated. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/19/19
  

  New Documents Illuminate The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

  by Asher Price

  Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.

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• SOURCE: Real Clear Investigations
  9/17/19
  

  The Ethnic Studies Movement Is Making Big Inroads in America's High Schools

  Teachers around the country are already offering ethnic studies classes, units or lessons on their own initiative, citing a growing urgency to confront racism, sexism, homophobia and other entrenched social inequalities.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/10/19
  

  9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Textbooks are not the go-to resource for learning about 9/11 in 2019.  

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/11/19
  

  Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again

  by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

  Any desegregation plans must be a shared burden. But are we willing to take it on?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/3/19
  

  How the advanced placement program is failing students

  by Annie Abrams

  A new cookie-cutter website designed by the College Board represents a perversion of the program’s original mission of fostering creative and critical thinking.