When this literature teacher completes a book with her class and hears a student say, “Reading this makes me happy I am an American,” she flips the script.
Local history has a profound effect on our communities. It’s up to educators to learn and teach students about the hard history in their own backyards.
This week’s congressional hearings on Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election offer a great opportunity to teach about the larger implications of misinformation: the dismantling of democracy.
Certain encounters help young students develop values and virtues that open spaces in their minds and hearts so they can see the world and its people in broader terms.
An educator’s message motivated by personal unresolved grief leads to the creation of a safe space for intensive, interactive learning about racism and honest U.S. history.
K.C.B. is a high school student in Alabama. With an almost insatiable aspiration to advocate regarding the educational norms and precedents set for students in Alabama and beyond, her care for the cultivation of truth in learning was fostered by a lack of educational support in an area that she strongly identifies with: her culture. And, until most recently (her sophomore year of high school), no teacher had ever spent an entire class period discussing the history of Black Americans in American history. She is an honor student, a member of her school’s student council, a performing member of a