DocsTeach, the online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives, is full of primary sources and tools for teaching about civil rights. For instance, you could do the following photograph analysis challenge with your students: This photo is cropped to reveal only this young girl’s face. Look for context clues and try to…
Teaching Civil Rights with DocsTeach — Education Updates
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We’re constantly updating DocsTeach.org — the online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives. Here are some recent highlights. Newly Added Primary Sources Hollywood Ten – We recently added court documents related to the screenwriters, producers, and directors who jeopardized their careers by taking a stand against the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Several […]
via Primary Source Highlights on DocsTeach — Education Updates
Introducing undergraduate students to the importance of archival research and materials by encouraging them to become citizen transcribers for the National Archives as part of their coursework
I am very pleased to let you know about the publication of a newly revised edition of The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. Perhaps you read it when it was first released in 2010. It was big news at the time, because I broke […]
The Second Amendment might be used to teach plain writing, historical context, and fundamental primary source research.
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Every student has a unique learning style, but it’s tough for teachers to figure out if they learn best through lectures, images, reading, self-directed practice, or group projects. By using publicly available education progress data and personality analysis, Lilwil is able to automatically identify a the best teaching method for a student and recommend it…
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