education

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/21/19
  

  Bowling Green State Removed Lillian Gish's Name from Their Theatre Over Her Role in Birth of a Nation. Why Do Some Want the Name Restored?

  A who's who of film -- James Earl Jones, Helen Mirren, Martin Scorsese, among others -- want the name restored.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  6/24/19
  

  Don’t Want Your School to Be Named for a Confederate General? Find Someone Else Named Lee

  Schools honor others with surname to avoid costs of repainting or new signs.

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• 6/23/19
  

  Why We Need Better Children's History Books

  by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Assembling a coherent narrative that inspires students to image a different world is much more complicated than a Wikipedia search. Teachers can only carry out this task if they have access to narrative histories that are decolonized.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/15/19
  

  Students and Parents Push for Better Textbooks to Help Fight Hate and Stereotypes

  Students, parents and educators are calling for material that reflects a diversity of experiences, saying it’s a matter of providing a fuller telling of history.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/6/19
  

  The 'Counter-Textbooks' Offering Kids a Radical Look at History

  Demand for “counter-textbooks” has been fueled by factors including student desire for more diverse stories and requirements like the California law that now mandates LGBT-inclusive social-studies curriculums.

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• 6/2/19
  

  Donald Trump, the Humanities, and the Decline of American Values

  by Walter G. Moss

  We overvalue such things as making money, “getting ahead,” glitz, and celebrity status and undervalue what the humanities and arts emphasize—beauty, truth, and goodness.  

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• 5/30/19
  

  What Should Historians Do About the Mueller Report?

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  We need to be more emphatic in asserting history's role in bringing clarity to complex public issues. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  5/26/19
  

  What’s So Useful About Studying Ancient History?

  by Barry Strauss

  Americans are notoriously ignorant of history, even their own, and while there’s nothing new about this indifference, the consequences are profound.

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• 5/26/19
  

  For Anti-Racist Educator, Teaching History Was a Calling

  by Erik Moshe

  The most valuable history is often the most difficult to find; it is what we don’t even know that we need to know that gets us into trouble. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/21/19
  

  Why study history? Because it can save us from democratic collapse.

  by John Jeffries Martin

  What the Founding Fathers can teach us about applied historical knowledge.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/20/19
  

  If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?

  Teachers with no sense of perspective tried to make history personal and ended up reinforcing white supremacy in the name of “learning.”

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• 5/19/19
  

  Civics 101: Instilling Constitutional Literacy in Tomorrow’s Strategic Leaders

  by Gregory D. Foster

  A professor at one of the U.S. military’s senior colleges argues that if the public is to be properly served by uniformed military officers, federal civil servants, and Foreign Service Officers, their education should focus more on Civics 101. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/3/19
  

  Sarah Lewis' grandfather was expelled from school for asking why his textbooks had no black people. Today she teaches at Harvard.

  Lewis teaches art history and African American studies at Harvard.

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• SOURCE: U.S. News
  5/3/19
  

  ABCs of LGBTQ History Mandated for More U.S. Public Schools

  On Thursday, Colorado lawmakers voted to mandate LGBTQ curriculum for K-12 public school students. 

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• SOURCE: Keeping Democracy Alive
  5/2/19
  

  Knute Berger: Why History is Vital to Democracy

  Berger went on the Keeping Democracy Alive podcast to discuss. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/5/19
  

  Medieval Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another.

  Since the 2016 presidential election, scholars have hotly debated the best way to counter the “weaponization” of the Middle Ages by a rising tide of far-right extremists.

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• SOURCE: College Fix
  5/6/19
  

  Student group demands firing of Seton Hall professor for ‘controversial’ comments

  Hoffer had called the Southern Poverty Law Center a “hate group,” and claimed that Black Lives Matter and radical Muslim terrorists are a bigger threat than the KKK and Neo-Nazis.

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• SOURCE: High Country News
  4/29/19
  

  Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California

  Some believe the Golden State is ignoring a history of violence against Native Americans.

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• 4/28/19
  

  Yet Another Assault on the Meaning of an Education

  by David Barber

  Education which allows us to discover who we are and where our potentialities and passions lie can only be achieved if we demand it. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  4/22/19
  

  3 More Colleges Go Test Optional; Doctoral Program Drops GRE

  "By removing the GRE from our admissions form, we will be able to focus more on the qualitative assessments that better identify the most promising applicants: writing samples, personal statements, recommendations and the student’s complete record of course work and grades."