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The course has caused controversy in states like Florida. But inside two Akron classrooms, kids just want to learn history — in many cases, their own.
Finally, the Department of Education's Teaching American History (TAH) program has invested more than $900 million in history education – the largest federal infusion of resources ever devoted to improving the teaching and learning of history. It was the favorite proposal of U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, and its grants are called "Byrd grants." [1]
The core purpose of this organization is to lead in the teaching and learning of history. One of the ways that NCHE sets out to accomplish this is to provide a communications network for all advocates of history education. These advocates include but are not limited to; schools, colleges, museums, historical councils, and community groups.
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The International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning (ISETL) has as its purpose "to encourage the study of instruction and principles of learning in order to implement practical, effective methods of teaching and learning; promote the application, development, and evaluation of such methods; and foster the scholarship of teaching and ...
Kathryn Starke, a national literacy consultant, reading specialist and founder of Creative Minds Publications, says that every young child is “naturally excited” about learning to read ...
For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America (Cornell UP, 2017) 308 pp; Dorn, Charles. American education, democracy, and the Second World War (2007) online; Geiger, Roger L. The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (Princeton UP 2014), 584pp; encyclopedic in scope online
Historical thinking is a set of critical literacy skills for evaluating and analyzing primary source documents to construct a meaningful account of the past. Sometimes called historical reasoning skills, historical thinking skills are frequently described in contrast to historical content knowledge such as names, dates, and places.