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• 2/23/20
  

  Classroom Activity Kit: The History of Climate Change

  by Mark Deltor and Sam Mastrianni

  What do farmers from the 1950s, anti-smoking campaigns and climate change have in common? Download this Classroom Activity Kit to find out.

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• 2/23/20
  

  Classroom Activity Kit: The History of U.S. Immigration

  by Paige Morse, Julia Brown, and Andrew Fletcher

  This Classroom Activity Kit teaches students about U.S. immigration history while also highlighting their personal histories.

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• 2/23/20
  

  Classroom Activity Kit: The History of Sports Activism

  by Jonathan Montano, Laura Gonzalez, and Lila Someshwar

  Discussing athletes from Jackie Robinson to Colin Kaepernick, this Activity Kit teaches students about the history of political activism in sports.

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• 2/23/20
  

  Classroom Activity Kit: The History of Private Prisons in the U.S.

  by Isabella Delpino, Jared Levinson and Matthew Crawford

  Download this Classroom Activity Kit to teach students about the history of the American prison system.

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• 2/23/20
  

  Classroom Activity Kit: The History of Climate Change and Activism

  by Chelsea Connolly, Elisabeth Pearson and Samantha Benthien

  Download this Classroom Activity Kit to help students understand climate change activism in its historical context.

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• 2/23/20
  

  HNN Introduces Classroom Activity Kits

  by Chelsea Connolly and Kyla Sommers

  Combining the fields of journalism and history, these activity kits provide educators with complete downloadable lesson plans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/11/19
  

  How teachers advocating for their students could backfire

  by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz

  It reinforces the view of teachers as self-sacrificing servants instead of highly trained professionals.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/15/19
  

  Students and Parents Push for Better Textbooks to Help Fight Hate and Stereotypes

  Students, parents and educators are calling for material that reflects a diversity of experiences, saying it’s a matter of providing a fuller telling of history.

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• 4/14/19
  

  Teacher Pay, Presidential Politics, and New York’s Modest Proposal of 1818

  by Adam Laats

  When underpaid teachers threaten to walk away, school leaders have always considered desperate plans to fix desperate financial problems.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/14/19
  

  Teacher strikes can’t fix the core problems with our schools

  by Diana D'Amico

  The forces that once led to the growth of suburban schools have led to the decay of their urban counterparts.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/10/19
  

  The History of American Teacher Strikes—And Where Los Angeles Fits In

  There were more than 1,000 such strikes involving more than 823,000 teachers from July 1960 to June 1974.

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• 5-11-14
  

  Five Things Historians and Teachers Need to Do to Make History Fun

  by Tim Grove

  As a public historian who has worked for over twenty years in some of America’s most popular history museums, here are my suggestions for what we need to do to make history fun.

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• When Assessing Zinn, Listen to the Voices of Teachers and Students

  by Robert Cohen

  Howard Zinn speaking in 2009. Credit: Wiki Commons.