Even without in-person field trips, photographs stored online can stimulate enriching investigations of historic places.

In order to promote inclusive social studies, this article describes how upper-level elementary students can learn about the Women’s Suffrage Movement and how it intersects with the experiences of other marginalized Americans persevering to obtain the right to vote.

*/ Terry L. CherryPhoto by Joy Lindsey While watching the news on Internet videos (as well as on television, reading news reports, and listening to the radio), and while speaking with our colleagues, we realize that the changing world calls for innovative education practices. In many ways, how instructors prepare students today for civic life is different from what we might have been doing in the classroom as recently as five years ago.  My last two messages in this newsletter were about “Collaboration” and “Communication,” which are the first two priorities of the…

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