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This new paper (www.socialstudies.org/social-educa...) builds on our work on the SSDI (social studies discourse instrument) www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
For social studies teachers, virtually no activity is more valuable, or more challenging, than facilitating a whole class discussion. Good news! We're here to help! www.socialstudies.org/social-educa...
With @abbyreisman.bsky.social and Dr. Tim Patterson, we've written a brief article for teachers and teacher educators on what makes discussions so important and how to do them.
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This was never about antisemitism. This was never in good faith. Given the willful ignorance or outright complicity of a number of presidents and boards, all of the rest of us will have to push our institutions away from this absolute mockery of justice.
“8 of 10 Americans telling us we need more civic education is a wake-up call to educators & policymakers.” There is tremendous opportunity to advance civics education by expanding time for social studies in grades K-8, which also support literacy goals. www.columbiagorgenews.com/online_featu...
New Poll: 80% of Americans Say the Country Isn't Teaching Enough Civics
(NewsUSA) - A survey sponsored by More Perfect and the Daniels Fund finds a rare consensus across age, party, and geography that civic education needs more investment even as confidence
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This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
Park rangers fined Sandra Shachar for vandalism this morning at the President’s House, hours after the Trump admin installed its version of history. The 72 year old has been posting news articles on the site’s walls since the slavery exhibit was removed. If she does it again, she’ll be arrested.
New AP polling of Jewish Americans— Mamdani (+5): 44% Favorable; 39% Unfavorable Netanyahu (-27): 32% Favorable; 59% Unfavorable Trump (-42): 29% Favorable; 71% Unfavorable Where's all the breathless wall-to-wall coverage on Netanyahu & Trump making Jewish people feel unsafe?
There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.
Rarely has a people had such an *opportunity* to stop the evils of their government as we do right now. If we impeach and remove Trump, we will avert additional crimes against humanity. If we do not, history will judge us harshly. All of us. Yes, even me and you. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
We Have 2 Weeks to Stop Trump From Committing New Atrocities
It is up to the American people, and our elected representatives, to use every legal means available—from impeachment to protest.
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You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Hello?
Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
Hey social studies teachers - this seems like a very cool project!
Christopher Martell@chrismartell.bsky.social · 7mo agoSocial studies teachers (anywhere in the U.S.)! Want to participate in a Library of Congress workshop where you will create units on local history and get paid $2,500? APPLY HERE: iacp.berkeley.edu/node/67 #sschat #edusky
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center. But that campaign is *never mentioned*.
This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives
Last Friday, a federal judge called the Trump administration's reasoning for removing an exhibit about slavery from Independence National Historic Park a "dangerous statement to make" and "horrifying to listen to."
‘Horrifying’: Judge questions abrupt removal of slavery exhibits
The National Park Service removed the exhibits in Philadelphia last week to comply with an executive order by President Donald Trump.
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I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
Teachers looking to teach about what's happening in Minnesota might consider an "AHA" lesson (Analyzing Historical Analogies - check out the structure here: doi.org/10.1108/SSRP...). One historical comparison might be British occupation of Boston: radleybalko.substack.com?utm_source=n...
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Reporting and commentary on civil liberties and the criminal justice system. Plus other stuff. Click to read The Watch, by Radley Balko, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
This is very, very good. By M Gessen, gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
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AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.