education

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• SOURCE: Blue Book Diaries
  4/2/2020
  

  The Liberal Arts, the People, and the Pandemic

  by Jonathan W. Wilson

  Other than professional experts, the Americans who understand the crisis best—regardless of political ideology—are those who have a well-rounded imagination.

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• SOURCE: WFAE
  3/27/2020
  

  Darius Swann Changed Charlotte's School System, Local Historian Remembers

  Local historian Pamela Grundy discusses the Rev. Dr. Darius Swann who was the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Swann v. Charlotte - Mecklenburg Board of Education. He died on March 8, at the age of 95.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/26/2020
  

  The Biggest Distance-Learning Experiment In History: Week One

  With little training and even fewer resources, in a matter of days public schools are shifting from a system of education that for centuries has focused on face to face interaction, to one that works entirely at a distance.

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• SOURCE: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  3/23/2020
  

  New, Free Family Website Subscription Provides Resources and Guidance for Remote Learning

  The Gilder Lehrman Institute is providing resources for families to help children learn history at home.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  3/26/2020
  

  Reviving the Original Purpose of Pass-Fail

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  We should use this moment to recapture some of the initial spirit of the option, argues Jonathan Zimmerman.

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• SOURCE: The Gotham Center for New York City History
  3/23/20
  

  An Interview with Historian Ansley Erickson

  Erickson is the co-editor of Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community, a new book from the Harlem Education History Project.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/2020
  

  The Demise of the Great Education Saviors

  by Kevin Carey

  Charter schools and testing were supposed to right historic wrongs. Now they’ve run out of political steam. What happened?

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/10/2020
  

  Coronavirus and the Great Online-Learning Experiment

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Let’s use this crisis to determine what our students actually learn when we teach them online.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/6/2020
  

  Coronavirus School Closings: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late

  by Howard Markel

  In the history of medicine, we have never been more prepared to confront this virus than we are today. But this history also teaches us that when it comes to school closings, we must always be ready to act today — not tomorrow.

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• 3/1/2020
  

  For the love of history, let’s teach it better.

  by Laura Redford

  Let’s show students that studying the past is far more than memorizing. It can be thrilling, and can help them make more sense of the world in which they live.  

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/26/20
  

  Land Deed for Pioneering School Sheds Light on an Early American Anti-Slavery Effort

  Sotheby’s announced Wednesday that it is auctioning off a 1794 land deed for the first location of the African Free School in lower Manhattan, one of the first educational institutions founded to prepare free people of color and the children of enslaved people for life after slavery.

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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: NY Times
  2/14/20
  

  How a Fake Priest Duped Oxford and a World-Famous Historian

  The New York Times reviews THE PROFESSOR AND THE PARSON: A Story of Desire, Deceit, and Defrocking by Adam Sisman.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/14/20
  

  In Pursuit of Knowledge: A New Book about Black Women’s Educational Activism

  An interview with abria Baumgartner, an assistant professor of American studies at the University of New Hampshire at Durham, author of n Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Education Activism in Antebellum America.

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• 2/16/20
  

  “Free College” in Historical Perspective

  by John R. Thelin

  “Free college” is a visible and volatile issue in the Democrat candidates’ presidential campaign platforms. No Democratic candidate today can afford to ignore the issue, even if it means taking time to impose strict limits.