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What does a curriculum designed to foster historical understanding and thinking look like? [...] »
Historical thinking forces students to confront the uncertain status of historical accounts. [...] »
Teaching historical thinking, beyond the facts, results in higher achievement among diverse learners. [...] »
Through direct instruction in historical analysis skills, elementary students showed marked improvements in their work. [...] »
What do students actually learn from historical feature films? [...] »
What are the connections between student performance on tests and what goes on in their classrooms? [...] »
Here's help for challenges students encounter with historical documents and primary sources. [...] »
Are your students learning enough from their history textbooks? Connect cause and effect for them. [...] »
Two styles of document reading demonstrate what successful readers do to formulate a context for documents in time and place. [...] »
Can students with learning disabilities learn historical thinking? They certainly can! [...] »
