How History Class Divides Us For Education Week
“Americans are increasingly polarized and public distrust in government is at record levels. What if the inability of Americans to agree on our shared history—and the right way to teach it—is a cause of our current polarization rather than a symptom?”
New photography work published for Education Week. Proud to play a part of a larger initiative that launched in October to help better understand the role of education in the, as many say, current American civics crisis.
Sabin Middle School social studies teacher Michael Butler leads a discussion based on source materials that are projected on the screen in Colorado Springs.
Sabin Middle School students work with classmates to identify evidence from the indentured servant letter.
Michael Butler’s lesson at Sabin Middle School focuses on a 1795 letter from an English indentured servant girl. The highlighted words on the screen mark vocabulary words that are more challenging for the middle school students.
A notebook displays work for a lesson about the American flag.
Third-grade students participate in a social studies lesson focused on the history and symbolism of the American flag at Freedom Elementary School in Colorado Springs, Colo. The school district is focused on teaching students to do history rather than passively receive it.
