teaching history

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  12/1/2022
  

  An Experiment Teaching African American History in the Metaverse

  Morehouse's Ovell Hamilton believes the technology of virtual reality has the potential to engage students with the sensation of inhabiting the past. 

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• SOURCE: Education Week
  11/16/2022
  

  Scholars Weigh In: Is a Comprehensive US History Course Still Possible?

  A Gilder Lehrman Center panel examined the potential and problems of trying to teach a comprehensive history of the nation in light of multiculturalism and the growing diversity of historical perspectives on slavery, emancipation and equality. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/21/2022
  

  School Politics at the Center of DeSantis's Conservatism

  by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

  Although contemporary conservatives tend to malign public schools and teachers, they are tapping into a long historical legacy in which widespread education was conditioned on the promise that schools would inculcate nationalism and the morality of conservative ruling elites. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/12/2022
  

  Virginia Proposes New Social Studies Standards; Experts Charge Political Motivation

  Educators argue that the proposed standards are politically motivated and slant instruction toward right-wing ideological positions. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/16/2022
  

  A New AP Course Advances the Teaching of Race in American History (While the Right Seeks to Restrict It)

  by Michelle A. Purdy

  "The nation’s public schools have long been caught in a tug of war over whether they should be used to conserve or disrupt existing social arrangements."

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• 11/13/2022
  

  "Divisive Concepts" Bans Will Undermine Teaching Some of the Values Conservatives Claim to Uphold

  by John Marot

  The story of Frederick Douglass, to single out one prominent abolitionist, is "divisive" in the sense that students engaging with it will find echoes of values claimed by both left and right. That's why this history must be taught. 

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• SOURCE: Activist History Review
  11/8/2022
  

  No, Liberal Historians Can't Tame Nationalism

  by Eran Zelnik

  Liberal historians confronted with both right-wing nationalism and renewed "history wars" have tried to thread a needle by telling a positive story of nationalism. The author contends the exclusionary and belligerent aspects of nationalism can't be domesticated by surrounding them with the right narrative.

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• SOURCE: The Century Foundation
  11/4/2022
  

  The CRT Panic Isn't Over, It's Shifted Toward Charter Schools and Privatization

  After a few months in the spotlight, the movement of opposition to CRT has shifted toward the quieter work of promoting charter school networks that can use public funds to teach a whitewashed version of American history. 

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• SOURCE: Cleveland.com
  11/7/2022
  

  Nat'l Teacher of the Year Has No Plans to Stop Teaching Controversial Material

  “I don’t want to be defiant, said Russell. “My sole purpose as a teacher is to provide my students with a holistic education and I don’t believe -- through my lived experience -- that taking away certain subjects or certain books will do so."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/3/2022
  

  Released Emails to Youngkin's Divisive Concepts Hotline Include Gripes about "Groomers," Masks, and... Beowulf?

  Critics have called the Virginia governor's hotline for reporting "divisive" concepts in the classroom as a vehicle for snitching and intimidation directed at teachers by the conservative parents who were active in Youngkin's political coalition. 

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• SOURCE: Banished (Substack)
  11/1/2022
  

  Will Florida's "Stop WOKE Act" Hold Up in Court? (Podcast)

  Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder discuss the implications of the Florida legislature's intervention into the teaching of history. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/31/2022
  

  Is Moms For Liberty Out to Protect Kids or Scare Parents?

  Williamson County in suburban Nashville shows how the astroturf Mom's group erupted on the scene to challenge a popular and well-regarded social studies curriculum for elementary schools on the grounds that its civil rights lessons were "divisive." 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  10/26/2022
  

  Partisan Politics on a State Standards Revision

  by Stephen Jackson

  The South Dakota Department of Education discarded the recommendations of a work group of scholars, educators and elected officials in favor of a second group appointed by the governor, including political allies and an emeritus professor from Hillsdale College, seriously undermining rigor in the state social studies curriculum. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/26/2022
  

  Disrupt the March of "Disruptive Innovation"

  by Kevin Gannon

  The economy of innovation and publicity in higher education often rewards people who claim credit for ideas over the people who work to develop, test, and implement them. Academia needs a collaborative model of innovation. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10/24/2022
  

  MAGA Mom Activists Heavily Represented on DeSantis Book Review Panel

  Both transparency and expertise seem to have been ignored in the selection of conservative activists to staff a Florida panel implementing new restrictions on school libraries and in-classroom reading materials. 

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• SOURCE: ChalkBeat
  10/12/2022
  

  BOE Member who Wrongly Identifies Nazis as "Socialists" Shapes How Colorado Students Learn Holocaust History

  Historians and teachers argue that tying limited space for Holocaust and genocide education in the curriculum to a crusade against leftist politics is distracting and an antisemitic hijacking of education by politics. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/10/2022
  

  The Moral Panic over Activist Teachers Wildly Overstates' Teachers' Power

  by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz

  Public school teachers have never enjoyed robust academic freedom protections, and have been subject to scrutiny and punishment for "subversive" views, leading to teacher burnout and diminished educational quality. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/6/2022
  

  Religious Colleges on Front Lines of "Critical Race Theory" Battles

  An outcry by parents and alumni of Grove City College after a speaking inviation to historian Jemar Tisby, a critic of racism in American Christianity, exemplifies the pressures facing religious institiutions from conservative forces inside and outside. 

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• 10/2/2022
  

  What's Driving the Latest Texas History Wars?

  by John Willingham

  An organized and well-funded alliance of charter schools and conservative activists is leveraging the Critical Race Theory controversy in Texas to pursue the real prize: school education funding. 

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• SOURCE: Quillette
  9/13/2022
  

  James Sweet Shouldn't Have Apologized for the Truth

  by Jeffrey Herf

  "Those who repress inconvenient facts or produce fictitious evidence to nourish a politically convenient story are simply not historians—they are activists or propagandists."