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Teach Disability History Using Court Cases

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Rich Cairn

Post by Rich Cairn and Ross Newton

 

"Court cases are great for teaching history because they often deal with concrete details from everyday life."

- Ross Newton, High School History teacher, HEC Academy. 

 

Teaching with Court Cases 

Many teachers teach students to read and analyze famous court cases such as Brown v. Board of Educa…

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History eNews from Emerging America - January 18, 2024

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Rich Cairn
EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol.
Stronger together shows men and women of different races side-by-side, hands forward, holding an array of giant flowers. Above them, a flock of birds flies in front of the sun.

Disability History in State Standards and Mandates - and Other Tools

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Rich Cairn
Check Out New Resources and Tools at EmergingAmerica.org 

Emerging America recently added useful functions to our website. At the suggestion of friends at the #TeachDisabilityHistory campaign, we added an FAQ page to the Reform to Equal Rights curriculum. And we added more lessons as well as search tools to the Teaching Resources page. Finally, we created a Learning Standards page to shap…

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