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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Coming in 2026🤞: Amy and I explore how we're recentering learning in our methods classes through reading, writing, and discussion--and doing away with digital technology.

Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Free publication (link in comments) supports educators teaching global citizenship education from Asia-Pacific perspectives, through concrete activities, stories, cases, examples, and instructional strategies. ##sschat #gce #globalcitizenshipeducation

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If you're at the National Council for the Social Studies, come to Li-Ching Ho's and my presentation on teaching for hope! Saturday, Dec. 6, Room 201. #sschat #socialstudies #teachingsocialstudies @socialstudies.org

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Great opportunity for high school social studies teachers in the United States! #sschat #iteachsocialstudies #historyteacher

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It’s going to be real tough to discuss Japanese American internment without saying something negative. All national parks now have this sign. Sanitizing crimes and erasing memory is one more step towards a white supremacist version of history.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"Rebuilding a Democracy in Ruins," including chapters by LaGarrett King and Richard Williams, Li-Ching Ho Tricia Seow and Xian Hui Tan, Jennifer Hauver, Kristen Duncan, Jillian Carter Ford, Kathryn Ellerhoff Engebretson, and Alexandria Hollett

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

National History Day has been eliminated.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Li-Ching Ho and I just published this article on #hope and #historyteaching in the journal of the New South Wales History Teachers Association. DM for a higher-res version. #SSChat #iteachsocialstudies

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It is easy to feel powerless in the current moment, when political action seems too risky, too pointless, or both. But there are many things we can, and must, do if we want a better world than the one we’re caught up in now.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Social studies teachers (or history/social science teachers): Help me out with some ideas, even inspiration, by completing this sentence—“As social studies teachers, we…” (do what?) #sschat #iteachsocialstudies @edusky.bsky.social

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Social studies teachers (or history/social science teachers): Help me out with some ideas, even inspiration, by completing this sentence—“As social studies teachers, we…” #sschat #iteachsocialstudies @edusky.bsky.social

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Teachers and teacher-educators who are looking for hope in these troubled times might be interested in this webinar @liching22.bsky.social and I are doing next week on teaching for #hope. Everyone is welcome to join. @edusky.bsky.social #socialstudies #sschat #iteachsocialstudies #civiceducation

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The early dreams about the internet focused on connecting people with each other Now tech companies are using the internet to keep us isolated and divided, talking to phantoms and absorbing lies

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I know this: Mark Pope is better at Xs and Os than John Calipari. (Also: Mark Few needs a new haircut.) #BBN

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A cold day for activism at Indiana University on this 60th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, but oppression knows no weather, and neither can resistance.

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 05/12/2024

This. A hundred times this.

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History Education Research Journal @histedresearch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

HERJ's cover captures what we're all about: research exploring how to enthuse children & young people 2 learn about the past & it's traces. If U haven't already, head over 2 our diamond open access @uclpress.bsky.social site - journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/. Join the conversatoin? #historyeducation

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

On @secnetwork.bsky.social Richard Hendrix said some people would consider Georgia State’s high-post offense “archaic,” and I’m here for that kind of vocabulary. It almost makes up for his pulling out “differential” in the first half.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Join Carole Hahn, Tracey Alviar-Martin, Jongsung Kim, and myself next Saturday, Dec. 7. at 1100 EST (US) as we discuss our experiences in international research in social studies education. Sponsored by the International Assembly of @ncssnetwork.bsky.social Registration at link.

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NCSS IA Webinar

In this webinar, NCSS International Assembly members who have abundant experience in international comparative research in social studies education will answer the following questions: What are your ...

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Indiana University International and Comparative Education Online Master’s Degree Applications Now Open for 2025! This program develops practitioners & scholars who understand the economic, social, political, and cultural forces shaping schooling in regional, national, and international contexts.

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International and Comparative Education: Academics: School of Education: Indiana University Bloomington

Earn a degree in International and Comparative Education from the IU School of Education. Learn about degree requirements, faculty and current students, and career opportunities for graduates.

Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Democracy and Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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On the topic of the FASSE grant from @cufancss.bsky.social and @ncssnetwork.bsky.social : This fund dates back to the 1960s and was originally financed by a bequest from the estate of Mary Kelty, third woman president of NCSS, who was killed in a car wreck in 1964.

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Jamila B. Me @amomentwithmila.blacksky.app · 21/11/2024

If you’re at #NCSS2024 you should go to the Democracy and Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. There are some powerful works of art, some of them disturbing.

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And ain’t!

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I’m pretty sure no woman was ever dissatisfied with a portrait of her by John Singer Sargent. #MFAB #Boston #NCSS2024

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’m sure I’m not the first person to have taken (and posted) photos of these contrasting architectural styles in Boston. #NCSS2024

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Kristen Duncan with important insights into civic education for Black youth. Catch her newest work at #NCSS24 #NCSS2024 this week @ncssnetwork.bsky.social

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A nation is not saved by wars but “by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks.”

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If you’re at #NCSS24 #NCSS2024, let’s explore the possibilities of teaching for hopeful social action.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We must provide students a sense of hope--a belief that a better world is possible, and knowledge of how human action can make a difference. In our article in the latest Social Education, Li-Ching Ho and I describe what that might look like. #socialstudies #sschat (DM me if you don’t have access.)

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

“We can work together to shed the nationalism and xenophobia that are holding humanity back from participating in a world community that values all human life.” #socialstudies #sschat Catch Kathryn Engebretson next week at the Boston conference of @ncssnetwork.bsky.social

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Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

An example of Acción Ortográfica Quito doing the Lord's work (graffiti on a wall corrected with red spray paint)

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When I pull out the University of Ulster mug, it means it’s time for some serious writing about #historyeducation

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I fear that young people today may have a distorted notion of what boxers should look like.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

In this climate of despair, is it possible to teach a hopeful history—one that would encourage students’ belief that with thoughtful action, a better world is possible? What are some examples? #historyeducation #socialstudies #sschat

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Civics linked to the nation-state will always be a tool of oppression; only an anarchist politics and civics can lead us to a more humane, life-affirming society (Alex Hollett) #sschat #socialstudies #anarchism

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

King and Williams call for racial healing through a history truth, education, and reconciliation commission.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

On this Veterans Day, I’m led to wonder: Could a military coup be in the future for the United States? Two years from now, will we all be posting, “Didn’t have that on my 2026 bingo card!”?