high school

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/17/2020
  

  High School Students Are Demanding Schools Teach More Black History, Include More Black Authors

  “The education system is where people form values other than what their parents have,” 18 year old Vanessa Amoah of Omaha said. “George Floyd, Philando Castile — none of it would have happened if this country worked on proactively teaching anti-racist values."

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  1/16/20
  

  How Political Divides Shape U.S. History Lessons

  Partisan politics are making their way into school textbooks, reports The New York Times. We dig into the report.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/13/20
  

  Historians Respond to NY Times Article on History Textbook Regional Differences

  Featuring Kevin Kruse and other educators. 

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  1/5/20
  

  The Role of History Educators in a Time of Crisis: Building Bridges Between Historians and K-12 History Teachers

  by Sari Beth Rosenberg

  Updates and insight from a panel at the American Historical Association. 

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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

• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  5-7-13
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman: The Prom -- An American Relic

  Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at New York University. He is writing a history of sex education around the world.In 1954, American Girl magazine published a book of beauty tips for young women. It included helpful suggestions about preparing for the ultimate American beauty contest: the high school prom.“This is the moment to slip into your dress . . . Put your hair in place again, fasten your necklace or bracelet, and step into your pumps,” the book advised. “And wheee! Look now! There really is another you in the mirror. A you that is practically exuding a subtle new fascination, a wonderful femininity.”I’ve been thinking about this passage as I watch my own daughter get ready for prom, which seems like a relic from another age. And maybe that’s the whole point of it. In a time of enormous flux and ambiguity in gender relations, this ritual returns us to a time when men were men and, yes, women were women.The first recorded reference to a prom is from a student at Amherst College, who wrote in 1884 about attending prom at nearby Smith. But as more Americans joined the middle class, prom left the elite precincts of private colleges and filtered into the nation’s burgeoning secondary schools....