teaching

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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: 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: AHA Perspectives on History
  10/7/19
  

  American Historical Association Announces 2019 Prize Winners

  Dozens of historians will be recognized for their exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects.

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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: The Crimson
  9/19/19
  

  Responding to a ‘Crisis in the Humanities,’ Harvard History Dept. Rebrands

  Harvard's history department is rebranding to respond to national changes.  

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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: Washington Post
  9/3/19
  

  Police and punitive policies make schools less safe, especially for minority students

  by Kathryn Schumaker

  The increase in school security is directly linked to the rise of student activism that started to transform schools 50 years ago.

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• SOURCE: The Athletic
  8/14/19
  

  The Athletic Profiles Sean Wilentz's Mentorship of Yankees First Baseman Mike Ford

  When a talented Princeton baseball player named Mike Ford needed an adviser for his senior thesis, Wilentz thought it could be a match. 

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• SOURCE: NCPH
  8/29/19
  

  National Council on Public History Launches "The Inclusive Historian's Handbook"

  The handbook is a co-sponsored living digital resource designed to center inclusivity, diversity, equity, and public service in public history work.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  8/27/19
  

  Teaching in the Age of Me Too

  by Eric S. Yellin

  Eric S. Yellin was nervous about teaching a course based on a false rape accusation but found he was wrong to be so anxious -- and that the experience offered four lessons for instructors.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/15/19
  

  Push for Ethnic Studies in Schools Faces a Dilemma: Whose Stories to Tell

  California’s newly proposed model ethnic studies curriculum has led to bitter debate in recent weeks.

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• SOURCE: Pacific Standard
  7/30/19
  

  New Studies Finds Professors Don't Discriminate Against Conservative Students

  by David M. Perry

  A major study led by a lifelong Republican finds no evidence that professors are deliberately giving conservative students bad grades.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/19
  

  Historians Describe How The Use the Mueller Report When Teaching

  Educators are using the report from former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in the classroom.

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  4/13/19
  

  Making History More Relevant, One Case At A Time

  The case study method was popularized at Harvard Business School to help graduate business students understand how captains of industry made critical decisions.

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  Accessed 3/4/19
  

  The Activist History Review's Latest Issue Features Powerful Essays by High School History Students

  by Bill Horne

  "Their work shows a way in which we might rethink history 'from below,' not just as academic research on marginalized groups, but as scholarship written by non-scholars, activists, and members of disenfranchised communities."

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  11-14-14 (accessed)
  

  Why Is American Teaching So Bad?

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Who becomes a teacher in America? The answer keeps changing, and not in ways that should make any of us proud.

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• SOURCE: With a Brooklyn Accent (blog)
  9-24-14
  

  Why I Won't Discourage My Students from Becoming Teachers

  by Mark Naison

  Here is the brutal truth: There is no occupation in this country where you can avoid the brutal management practices currently invading teaching!

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• 5-11-14
  

  This State Pays a Company $2.3 Million to Rank Teachers by an Algorithmic Formula?

  by David Patten

  What exactly is the mathematical formula that will determine the fate of our teachers and our educational systems? 

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• 1-20-14
  

  The Secret Life of Teaching

  by Horace Dewey

  The first in a series: In which we finesse the occupational hazard of keeping student names straight.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1-10-14
  

  'You Have to Know History to Actually Teach It'

  by David Cutler

  Eric Foner on what it takes to be a good K-12 history teacher.