Schools often neglect history, and students think it's boring. But it's important, and a new framework for teaching it can make it come alive. History teachers generally get inadequate training and ...
If you grew up in a generation where you learned history through textbooks in school, you likely didn’t enjoy every single ...
One of the most exciting elements of historical research is getting to dive into primary sources like letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, and debates. In all of our lower-division classes, you will ...
History, the study of documented events and change over time, is at its foundation the study of people—singularly and collectively, with their shared and conflicting natures, choices, attitudes and ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. This article is more than 5 years old. Rather than being told that ...
Lori Hopkins-Cavanagh’s CT Viewpoints piece on Columbus Day is a caricature of an argument. Her essay is full of errors — from petty math (Columbus died in 1506, which was not 526 years ago) and ...
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Freshman year can make anyone feel lost, but Seattle teen Janelle Gary felt especially lost when she entered high school in 2015. At home, she watched a wave of gentrification drive change in the ...
The recent attacks on those teaching history have contributed to the exodus of seasoned educators from the profession. Credit: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...
It’s vital that young Americans learn the history of our amazing nation. Being an American requires knowing what it means to be an American. It’s the fabric that binds us together and helps us ...
However, I’ve observed that we don’t always learn from historical events, be they in geopolitics, our personal lives or our professional experiences. In my view, that’s to our detriment because, as ...