The attacks on CRT have terrified our educators. But the public school system has always made it hard to teach controversial subjects. For a decade, Jonathan Greenberg, a social studies teacher at the ...
The National Assessment of Educational Progress released the 2022 scores in history and civics for 8th graders earlier this month. I cannot say I was surprised by the decline. As others have noted, ...
In today’s classrooms, teaching Black history has become a challenge at best—and a dangerous proposition at worst. In many states, politicians have demanded teachers alter their curriculum over fears ...
Teachers have long sought ways to deliver a complete version of U.S. history that engages their young students and includes contributions by people of color Brandon Brown poses for photos in Los ...
On the first day of school, Kerry Green had a pit in her stomach. Green, a U.S. history teacher at Sunnyvale High School in Dallas County, Texas, had passed out copies of an 1864 speech about liberty ...
Nearly a century ago, the historian Carter G. Woodson started a movement to teach Black history in America’s schools. First called Negro History Week and now Black History Month, it has been an oasis ...
TAMPA, Fla. — David Calhoun and Sam Jenkins are among the Florida history teachers caught in the middle of teaching America's complicated past amid Florida's increasingly combative politics. "History ...
For the past three years, librarian Cicely Lewis has organized weekly Black History Month celebrations at her school in Norcross, Ga. This year was no different. "We had a head-wrapping station. We ...
Shawnee High School history teacher Chad Spencer has been named to the Medal of Honor Character Development Team by the Medal ...
THE STORM DAMAGE IN TEXAS. >> WELL, TODAY IS NATIONAL HISTORY DAY, AND THE TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS ARE CELEBRATING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF FREEDOM SUMMER. >> THAT’S RIGHT. THE EXHIBIT WELCOMES ...