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Exterior of Capital City Public Charter School in Northwest Washington, D.C.
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Organized Teachers Dreamed Up Charter Schools — But Their Vision Got Hijacked

Finally embracing teachers' original vision could help us rethink education after covid.
by Jon Hale via Made By History on August 25, 2021
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass and the Trouble with Critical Race Theory

A favorite icon of critical race theory proponents doesn’t say what they want him to say.
by Robert S. Levine via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 2, 2021
An effigy of Richard Nixon with a distorted papier-mache head.

The People’s Bicentennial Commission and the Spirit of (19)76

The Left once tried to own the legacy of America’s Bicentennial, but ran into ideological and structural roadblocks all too familiar today.
by Jason Tebbe via Tropics of Meta on July 26, 2021
Women protesting desegregation

Students Need To Learn About The Haters and The Helpers of Our History

We do our children no favors if we only feed them a steady diet of fairy tales that sidestep life’s complexities.
by Michele Norris via Washington Post on July 23, 2021
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Public Education

From the politics of access and funding to the craft of teaching, debates about education have always boiled down to one fundamental question: What – and who – are public schools for?
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Why A New Law Requiring Asian American History In Schools Is So Significant

"By not showing up in American history, by not hearing about Asian Americans in schools, that contributes to that sense of foreignness."
by Li Zhou via Vox on July 20, 2021
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Conservatives Are Once Again Trying to Erase Black History

The battles over Critical Race Theory and Southern heritage are really about a narrow, exclusionary reading of our past.
by Tyler D. Parry via Made By History on July 14, 2021
Henrietta Rodman walking

How Teachers Won the Right to Get Pregnant

In the early twentieth century, teachers were prohibited from keeping their jobs after getting pregnant. Socialist feminists organized to change that.
by Christopher Phelps via Jacobin on July 11, 2021
Dr. Lawrence Matsuda portrait, 2015, Painting by Alfredo M. Arreguin

Japanese Internment, Seattle in the 50s, and the First Asian-American History Class in Washington

Lawrence Matsuda talks about his family history, his experiences of discrimination, and his work in bilingual and Asian American representation in education.
by Lawrence Matsuda, Casey McNerthney via History Link on June 16, 2021
A drawing showing the plan for Owen's utopian community

Robert Owen, Born 250 Years Ago, Tried to Use His Wealth to Perfect Humanity

The wealthy textile manufacturer harbored ambitions that went far beyond the well-being of his own workforce and depleted his fortune.
by Richard Gunderman via The Conversation on May 11, 2021
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The GOP’s ‘Critical Race Theory’ Obsession

How conservative politicians and pundits became fixated on an academic approach.
by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on May 7, 2021
A graphic that reads "taxpayer dollars."

"Taxpayer Dollars:" The Origins of Austerity’s Racist Catchphrase

How the myth of the overburdened white taxpayer was made.
by Camille Walsh via Mother Jones on April 5, 2021
A teenage boy is vaccinated against smallpox by a school doctor and a county health nurse, 1938.

The U.S. Has Had 'Vaccine Passports' Before—And They Worked

History shows that the benefits of such a system can extend far beyond the venues into which such a passport would grant admission .
by Jordan E. Taylor via TIME on April 5, 2021
The Milky Way above Lanyon Quoit, a neolithic burial chamber in Cornwall, England.

What Big History Overlooks In Its Myth

Sweeping the human story into a cosmic tale is a thrill but we should be wary about what is overlooked in the grandeur.
by Ian Hesketh via Aeon on December 16, 2020
Newspaper scraps from the Flu Pandemic of 1918.

We're Celebrating Thanksgiving Amid a Pandemic. Here's How We Did it in 1918 and What Happened Next.

Many Americans were living under quarantines, and officials warned people to stay home for the holiday.
by Grace Hauck via USA Today on November 24, 2020
A student sits in a classroom.

Whose History? AI Uncovers Who Gets Attention in High School Textbooks

Natural language processing reveals huge differences in how Texas history textbooks treat men, women, and people of color.
by Edmund L. Andrews via Stanford University on November 17, 2020
A screen with an image of a woman holding a baby and running.

The 'Oregon Trail' Studio Made a Game About Slavery. Then Parents Saw It

'Freedom!' tried to show the horrors of antebellum slavery and the courage of escaping slaves. But neither schools nor audiences were ready for it.
by Robert Whitaker via Vice on November 3, 2020
A man protesting for Mexican-American representation in history education.
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Ethnic Studies Can’t Make Up for Whitewashed History in Classrooms

More diverse regular history classes are the key to a historically literate population.
by Jonathan Zimmerman via Made By History on October 11, 2020
Illustration of 9/11 inside outline of girl

The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.
by Garrett M. Graff via Politico Magazine on September 11, 2020
Armed troops wearing gas masks walk through tear gas at Black Lives Matter protest.
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The Extraordinary Scene Unfolding in Portland Has a Disturbing History

How immigration enforcement and policing became entwined
by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez via Made By History on July 19, 2020
NOLA Resistance Oral History Project title card featuring images of the civil rights movement.

NOLA Resistance Oral History Project

This oral history project records testimony from individuals who were active in the fight for racial equality in New Orleans between 1954 and 1976.
via The Historic New Orleans Collection on June 1, 2020
Collage images of the civil rights movement.

Teaching History Is Hard

Bunk Executive Director Ed Ayers on the importance of teaching students to think for themselves.
by Ed Ayers via Medium on April 28, 2020
Diagram of a man swinging a wooden club.

Eastern Sports and Western Bodies: The “Indian Club” in the U.S.

Although largely forgotten today, exercise by club swinging was all the rage in the 19th century.
by Daniel Elkind via The Public Domain Review on April 1, 2020
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West Virginia’s Attempt to Split Up Virginia Betrays the History of Both States

West Virginians left Virginia to ensure that the people's voices were heard, not to benefit special interests at the expense of democracy.
by Daniel W. Sunshine via Made By History on January 29, 2020

Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment

The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The Atlantic on November 10, 2019
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A New Housing Program to Fight Poverty has an Unexpected History

Some cities are trying to help poor children succeed by having their families move to middle-income, "opportunity areas" -- an idea once politically impossible.
via Retro Report on October 22, 2019

Are You a Seg Academy Alum, Too? Let’s Talk.

Reflecting on the impact of an education in an institution deliberately set up to defy court-ordered desegregation.
by Ellen Ann Fentress via The Bitter Southerner on June 7, 2019

Jefferson, Adams, and the SAT’s New Adversity Factor

Discussions of admissions to élite colleges are built around the idea that somewhere around the next bend is the right way to do it.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on May 23, 2019

Yes, Politicians Wore Blackface. It Used to be All-American ‘Fun.’

Minstrel shows were once so mainstream that even presidents watched them.
by Rhae Lynn Barnes via Washington Post on February 8, 2019

Baby, Christmas Songs Have Always Been Controversial

Long before “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” holiday songs played a part in the War on Christmas.
by Neil J. Young via The Atlantic on December 24, 2018
Students from Ramstein Middle School recite Pledge of Allegiance during a Sep. 11 commemoration ceremony

Why Do We Pledge Allegiance?

Few democracies require children to make a daily declaration of fealty to country.
by Jack David Eller via Boston Review on September 6, 2018
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