Joanne Jacobs
Teaching ‘Black Panther’
Black Panther, a huge box office hit, is a “hit with teachers” too, reports Brenda Iasevoli in Ed Week. Teachers are building lessons...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 8, 2018
- 2 min
Teaching slavery
To illustrate the horrors of slave ships, a middle-school teacher told three black students to lie on the floor and stepped on a girl’s...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 15, 2017
- 1 min
Churchill is in, but AP is light on liberty
College Board’s revised AP European History Course and Exam Description is better, but still light on liberty, writes David Randall in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 13, 2017
- 1 min
Teaching Veterans Day
What So Proudly We Hail has published a Veterans Day curriculum, which includes Mark Twain’s The War Prayer, an Ernie Pyle dispatch,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 12, 2017
- 1 min
Vets’ students don’t care about war
Students don’t care about America’s wars, writes Tyler Bonin, a Marine and combat veteran who now teaches history in North Carolina. When...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 7, 2017
- 2 min
Teaching ‘social justice’ — or propaganda?
St. Louis teachers are turning their classrooms into “hubs of social justice,” reports Kristen Taketa for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 6, 2017
- 1 min
California dumps ‘mission’ project
When California fourth-graders study state history, they build a model of a mission out of clay, cardboard, sugar cubes, popsicle sticks,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 23, 2017
- 3 min
Won’t know much about history
“They’re trying to take away our history,” said President Trump at an Arizona rally. He cited the middle-of-the-night removal of The...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 13, 2017
- 2 min
Mattis: Study history
Learn history, Defense Secretary James Mattis said in an interview with the Mercer Island High School (Washington) Islander. He cited...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 25, 2017
- 2 min
U.S. history curricula isn’t gender ‘inclusive’
U.S. history curricula remain mostly male, writes Elizabeth Weingarten in The Atlantic. The campaign to include women’s “stories” stalled...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 10, 2017
- 2 min
For a more perfect union
Elementary schools have contributed to national discord by neglecting to teach American history and civic principles, writes E.D. Hirsch...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 9, 2017
- 1 min
High school goes Hamilton
Students are “learning U.S. history” from Hamilton, the hottest show on Broadway,” reports Wayne D’Orio in Education Next. EduHam funds...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 5, 2017
- 1 min
Teach knowledge to fight ‘fake’ facts
“Media literacy” — teaching students to distinguish between “fake” news, propaganda, hype and reliable information — is all the rage,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 19, 2017
- 2 min
Trump’s inauguration: Safe for kids?
“Every peaceful transition of power is a historic moment,” a fourth-grade teacher in Michigan told parents in an email. Brett Meteyer...
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