Agree with this entirely. The longer this attack on the rule of law and our system of government continues, the the wider the spectrum of vile behavior of this administration, repugnant to our basic values as a people, the more clear it is that the fault lies in all of us. We have to solve it

Can't brag when everyone else knew this was going to happen

Any other US History educators waking up this morning regretting skipping the Quasi War with France in that Federalist Era unit? Or better yet, discovering the 1804 case of Little v. Barreme?

High school US History teachers should consider putting this election alongside their "Revolution of 1800" lesson and choose between the two. You only have so much instructional time with your students, which of these elections is making a bigger impact on their lives?

High school teachers working the front-end of the pipeline driving students through a system progressively privileging transcript building over authentic learning should take the time to read this excellent essay. AI is perfectly suited to transaction-based activities masquerading as education

Teachers who spent years trying to undo the poor work of peers who taught that ".org" was safe, now have to do the same with ".gov".

After talking with teachers about using an analogy of teaching someone to cook an omelet to show students the importance of clear organization and transitions to lead their readers step-by-step through their writing, I found out how AI could expand on this idea. tinyurl.com/AIandOmelets

Remember the gap. The Rosemary Woods "stretch" will be echoed when the Epstein files are released with a key name blacked out.

Hey High School US History teachers, you can feel this also. You still have time to fix that scope and sequence schedule and get your students into the 80s and 90s, at the very least.

"Does anyone know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours?" Anniversaries of events like this show how much of the human story never makes it into history classrooms and can't be found in state standards.

This is where you look for PA results, history teachers know how to find primary sources www.electionreturns.pa.gov/General/Coun...

Oh, the sandwiches!

Hey US Teachers - copy and paste this right into that tired old WWII Poster Propaganda lesson and see if your students notice

Yes, US History teachers, both of these belong in your Gilded Age/Progressive Era slidedeck.

Although he was writing to Abigail - John Adams is screaming at us ... "Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it."

Teachers can prank their students with this 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast lesson that first has them analyzing sources to understand the national panic, then showing them evidence that the panic was a myth exaggerated by newspapers. NotebookLM makes lesson commercials! youtu.be/VyLnbMx215o?...

Dear @nytimes readers, You might feel better if you just give up in it. Sincerely, A Proud Unsubscriber

Sorta wonder what McClellan thought of the crowd size in front of his statute on Saturday. IYKYK

Wearing a little history today, a subtle nod to educators who resisted tyranny - and a learning opportunity for students who ask about it. They won't get an answer of course, but they will get an invitation to look it up for themselves. Cultivating curiosity is more effective than demanding it.

Hey history teachers - Did Orson Welles really spark nationwide panic with his 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast? The story of a 23 year-old using new tech to prank a nation hooks students into a media literacy history lesson that's perfect for Halloween. tinyurl.com/radiopanic #sschat

Social Studies teachers talking with students about events in Chicago should make note of the fact that Cook County Illinois is home to more than 5 million people, a population greater than each of 26 states.

Here's part of The Petition of Right in delivered to King Charles I in 1628, referencing Parliament's restriction of King Edward III's authority in 1340, laws and events familiar to the founders when they anchored our government on the rule of law. Close to 700 years of law are under attack today.

Came across these clauses from the Magna Carta while reading Richard Ovenden's "Burning the Books" - made we wonder if the Supreme Court has a copy. We're witnessing more than the destruction of a system of rights developed in 1789 - we're watching the ones from 1215 evaporate before our very eyes

Finding a mistake in a textbook is like finding tool you didn't know you had, but desperately need. Elementary school teachers looking for a good Social Studies lesson for next week can use a mistaken definition of "Geography" as a tool to help students think in abstract ways tinyurl.com/mr3yb2sa

Another learning opportunity for US teachers to add to their slidedeck

Social Studies teachers who want to use this with students will need the complete source - here it is tinyurl.com/advyt4se

Random history teacher thoughts - our grandparents knew that we didn't know what "Pennsylvania 6-5000" stood for. Just as we know our children don't know what "867-5309" stood for. And those thoughts are courtesy of seeing a pay phone still on the wall of the school's auditorium lobby.

This morning, in countless classrooms across the country, Social Studies teachers are working with students to help them find and assess "reliable sources" and "reliable information" while the information ecosystem collapses. Who is going to help them? Where is @socialstudies.org on this?

Social Studies teachers and leaders, this needs your attention

Even he could take it

Hey Social Studies teachers, instead of sending students out to look for current event articles, dissect the words, phrases & facts included and excluded in two different accounts of the same event to see how people can come to different conclusions about the same event tinyurl.com/current-even...

What’s the difference between a school district using AI to support the teaching of reading, writing and thinking, and a school district using a stolen car to teach driver’s education? Wondering whether we should think about this a little more. tinyurl.com/mvscp3v4

Got me fired up enough to write a lesson on this - it works! tinyurl.com/5c4bm7cn

For the record, it doesn't take more than a minute to find the the text of Public Law 81-216, 63 Statute 578, otherwise known at the National Security Act Amendments of 1949. nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/286...

Another example of how the @nytimes.com aids and abets the destruction of the rule of law. If the President signed an Executive Order renaming the country as the "United States of Trump" the NYTimes would probably report it just the same way

The word "slave" appears in the White House's Founding Fathers page only twice, which is a lot less than the six men featured used the term and its variations themselves.

@nytimes.com - this one's for you

4 of the 27 specific grievances leveled against King George III in the Declaration of Independence are especially relevant today. We submitted these facts "to a candida world" to prove the King's "direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."

Or you could leave the @nytimes.com and find an employer who'll let you be the journalist you always wanted to be

Would @nytimes.com reporters rescue their children playing in traffic or would they just tell them that critics say that's dangerous?

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How would this be reported?

Did the NYTimes always have a problem? In 1973 it called Jeb Magruder's suggestion that the Nixon Administration use the IRS and Justice Department to "get the media" just a "News Media Move". Maybe the difference today is that such tactics wouldn't be enough to even merit a sigh.

US History teachers should snag this and paste it into the end of their Reconstruction slidedeck, then add it to the end of the Civil Rights unit as well.

The 650,000 Americans living in Vermont and 590,000 Americans living in Wyoming each have a representative and two senators in Congress. The 700,000 Americans living in the District of Columbia don't.

The White House couldn't even post the signed copy of the Smithsonian letter with equal margins. The text is tilted like the villain's hideouts in the old Batman TV series. tinyurl.com/24dp4mba

Hey @nytimes.com - this means that violent crime IS at a 30 year low.

Teachers should throw some of these into 80's DBQ. And if you don't get your students well past the 80s, revamp your whole course

US History teachers need to include these women and their stories ever bit as much as they do Anthony, Stanton, Mott and Truth. Teaching the 90s is essential. Just suffragettes and Senaca Falls doesn't cut it

Hey history teachers, here's a turnkey lesson ready to go for fall. Read the book with students, then go after this story with them to learn how active efforts are trying to deliberately change our understanding of the past