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To teach reading, teach history, science …
Reading isn’t a “general skill that can be applied with equal success to all texts,” writes cognitive scientist Dan Willingham in the New York Times. “Comprehension is intimately intertwined with...
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Past imperfect
A statue of Abraham Lincoln freeing a kneeling slave was vandalized repeatedly (black man is too submissive) in Boston. George Washington was spray-painted (slave owner) in Chicago. Augustus...
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Powderpuff history
Mr. Peabody and Sherman prepare to use the Wayback Machine. College students have lost interest in history, writes David Kaiser, who taught the subject from 1976 through 2013 at Harvard,...
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More career tech, less science and history?
Credit: Education Next High school students should take more career classes, even if that means spending less time on science, math and history, a California teacher tells Washington Post columnist Jay...
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There goes Robert E. Lee
“Across the South, students, parents, and alumni are demanding name changes for schools that honor the men who waged war to maintain slavery, writes Corey Mitchell in Education Week. Robert E. Lee Ed...
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AP teacher: ‘This is our WWII’
It was supposed to be a two-week break added to a week of spring vacation. It turned out school was out in March for the rest of the year. But Eirik Nielsen, a teacher in San Francisco, was determined...
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The end of history?
Illinois should drop history classes to “end the miseducation” of students, said State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford at a news conference Sunday. He was joined by education and political leaders. Chief Black...
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Was it over when the Japanese bombed Gettysburg?
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was the loser at Gettysburg, considered the turning point of the Civil War. President Trump is considering delivering his speech accepting the Republican nomination at...
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Return of the hero
A military honor guard carries the casket of U.S. Sen. John McCain at the Capitol. Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/AFP “We live in an era where we knock down old American heroes for all their imperfections, when...
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It’s all hate speech now
The Declaration of Independence includes hate speech, according to Facebook’s algorithm. Christian Britschgi explains on Reason‘s blog. The Liberty County Vindicator of Liberty County, Texas began...
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Learn, talk, think
Three girls are using prior knowledge, texts and images to rank five Civil War heroes in order of heroism. Then they’ll write essays justifying their choices. Two classmates are analyzing the...
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Joy of learning enables joy of reading
Third graders enjoy learning about science and history, which enables them to enjoy reading, and understand what they read, a Tennessee teacher tells Natalie Wexler in The Atlantic. Deloris Fowler has...
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Learn, talk, think
Three girls are using prior knowledge, texts and images to rank five Civil War heroes in order of heroism. Then they’ll write essays justifying their choices. Two classmates are analyzing the...
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? “Well-meaning, white teachers” should “talk about systemic racism,” not stories of individual achievement, advises Robert Harvey, superintendent of New York City’s East Harlem Scholars Academies...
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Learn, talk, think
Three girls are using prior knowledge, texts and images to rank five Civil War heroes in order of heroism. Then they’ll write essays justifying their choices. Two classmates are analyzing the...
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Learners need more than social studies lite
The more students know about the world, the easier it is for them to understand what they read. Elementary students who spend more time learning social studies become better readers, concludes a new...
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Teaching the classics
To understand the founding of America in 1776 or 1619 or 1492, it helps to understand something about the foundations of democracy in 490 B.C. when the Athenians defeated the Persian Empire at the...
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It’s all hate speech now
The Declaration of Independence includes hate speech, according to Facebook’s algorithm. Christian Britschgi explains on Reason‘s blog. The Liberty County Vindicator of Liberty County, Texas began...
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Learn, talk, think
Three girls are using prior knowledge, texts and images to rank five Civil War heroes in order of heroism. Then they’ll write essays justifying their choices. Two classmates are analyzing the...
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History is taught as texts without context
Who’s that man? Why is the crowd gathered? Teachers aren’t supposed to say. Studying texts, without context, is no way to learn history, writes Will Fitzhugh on Diane Ravitch’s blog. But it’s the...
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