education

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• 7/17/19
  

  The truth about the Holocaust and Holocaust education

  by Ira Bedzow and Stacy Gallin

  A high school principal was removed from his position after refusing to admit that the Holocaust was a “factual, historical event.” This is not only unacceptable, it is irresponsible. One does not need to be a professional historian to know that the Holocaust occurred.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/8/19
  

  Principal Who Tried to Stay ‘Politically Neutral’ About Holocaust Is Removed

  “I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee,” said the principal of a high school in Boca Raton, Fla.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/6/19
  

  ‘Do You Support Busing?’ Is Not the Best Question

  Issues of educational inequality raised by a 1970s-era practice remain relevant today, but language can obscure what’s really at stake.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/9/19
  

  How Schools Reinvigorated the Stonewall Revolution

  Perhaps, the theory was, just by existing, Gay-Straight Alliance groups could make gay kids feel less alone, and that itself could reduce suicide risk, which was common among gay teens at the time.

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• SOURCE: Contingent
  6/12/19
  

  The Closure

  by Brendan O'Malley

  What happens when the college you work for closes? A first-hand account of the state of higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Civil War Memory
  6/26/19
  

  Boston’s Black History is American History

  by Kevin Levin

  We still have a ways to go in reaching beyond the traditional narrative of history in Boston and beyond.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/21/19
  

  Bowling Green State Removed Lillian Gish's Name from Their Theatre Over Her Role in Birth of a Nation. Why Do Some Want the Name Restored?

  A who's who of film -- James Earl Jones, Helen Mirren, Martin Scorsese, among others -- want the name restored.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  6/24/19
  

  Don’t Want Your School to Be Named for a Confederate General? Find Someone Else Named Lee

  Schools honor others with surname to avoid costs of repainting or new signs.

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• 6/23/19
  

  Why We Need Better Children's History Books

  by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Assembling a coherent narrative that inspires students to image a different world is much more complicated than a Wikipedia search. Teachers can only carry out this task if they have access to narrative histories that are decolonized.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/15/19
  

  Students and Parents Push for Better Textbooks to Help Fight Hate and Stereotypes

  Students, parents and educators are calling for material that reflects a diversity of experiences, saying it’s a matter of providing a fuller telling of history.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/6/19
  

  The 'Counter-Textbooks' Offering Kids a Radical Look at History

  Demand for “counter-textbooks” has been fueled by factors including student desire for more diverse stories and requirements like the California law that now mandates LGBT-inclusive social-studies curriculums.

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• 6/2/19
  

  Donald Trump, the Humanities, and the Decline of American Values

  by Walter G. Moss

  We overvalue such things as making money, “getting ahead,” glitz, and celebrity status and undervalue what the humanities and arts emphasize—beauty, truth, and goodness.  

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• 5/30/19
  

  What Should Historians Do About the Mueller Report?

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  We need to be more emphatic in asserting history's role in bringing clarity to complex public issues. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  5/26/19
  

  What’s So Useful About Studying Ancient History?

  by Barry Strauss

  Americans are notoriously ignorant of history, even their own, and while there’s nothing new about this indifference, the consequences are profound.

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• 5/26/19
  

  For Anti-Racist Educator, Teaching History Was a Calling

  by Erik Moshe

  The most valuable history is often the most difficult to find; it is what we don’t even know that we need to know that gets us into trouble. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/21/19
  

  Why study history? Because it can save us from democratic collapse.

  by John Jeffries Martin

  What the Founding Fathers can teach us about applied historical knowledge.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/20/19
  

  If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?

  Teachers with no sense of perspective tried to make history personal and ended up reinforcing white supremacy in the name of “learning.”

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• 5/19/19
  

  Civics 101: Instilling Constitutional Literacy in Tomorrow’s Strategic Leaders

  by Gregory D. Foster

  A professor at one of the U.S. military’s senior colleges argues that if the public is to be properly served by uniformed military officers, federal civil servants, and Foreign Service Officers, their education should focus more on Civics 101. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/3/19
  

  Sarah Lewis' grandfather was expelled from school for asking why his textbooks had no black people. Today she teaches at Harvard.

  Lewis teaches art history and African American studies at Harvard.

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• SOURCE: U.S. News
  5/3/19
  

  ABCs of LGBTQ History Mandated for More U.S. Public Schools

  On Thursday, Colorado lawmakers voted to mandate LGBTQ curriculum for K-12 public school students.