Center Co-Sponsors Black History Month Event

Honoring Black History Month: Education called key to achievement By Hayley Kappes \ El Paso Times Posted:   02/12/2012 11:06:58 AM MST URL: http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_19947347   Actor Phil Darius Wallace, who portrays Frederick Douglass, says… (Victor Calzada / El Paso Times) When actor Phil Darius Wallace steps on stage as Frederick Douglass, he feels the struggles [...]

Center Featured in UTEP Magazine

“History in the Making” By Laura L. Acosta Source: UTEP Magazine (Fall 2011), p. 36. See in Magazine View | PDF (opens slowly) The Center for History Teaching and Learning (CHTL) at The University of Texas at El Paso is preparing teachers to help their students better understand the lessons of the past. Established in [...]

U.S. History Teachers Learn New Standards

U.S. History Teachers Learn New Standards Source: Laura L. Acosta, UTEP Newsroom, 6/20/11 With the Texas State Board of Education’s decision last year to adopt new social studies standards starting this fall, U.S. history teachers from across the state gathered at The University of Texas at El Paso last week to work with scholars who [...]

Teaching the Teachers

Source: Victor Calzada,  El Paso Times, Saturday, June 18, 2011, 6B Irvin High School U.S. History teacher Tara Bell-Lopez, right, reviews historical literature during Friday’s “The Making of Modern America, 1877 to Present” presentation at UTEP. The session, sponsored by the Center for History Teaching and Learning at UTEP and Humanities Texas, introduced 46 area [...]

In the News: A Walk Through History

A Walk Through History: UTEP effort highlights Hispanics’ significance By Ramón Rentería / El Paso Times Posted: 07/07/2010 12:00:00 AM MDT URL: http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_15451513 [Photo] David Romo, center, talked about the Mexican Revolution during a tour of Downtown El Paso Friday. Romo and a group of El Paso teachers were at the Camino Real Hotel. (Victor Calzada [...]

TEKSWatch featured in Public History News

Texas Adopts Controversial Social Studies Standards Carrie Dowdy | dowdyc@iupui.edu Public History News 30, no. 3 (June 2010), 19 http://ncph.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/2010-June-Newsletter.pdf Months of debate and pleas from historians, civic leaders, and members of the public to delay a decision were not enough. On May 21, the Texas State Board of Education (TSBOE) voted to change the [...]

In the News: The Mexican Revolution in El Paso

Education News: The Mexican Revolution in El Paso Kent Paterson Special to Salem-News.com Jun-09-2010 23:29 URL: http://salem-news.com/articles/june092010/mexican-revolution-kp.php; republished as “Academics bring the Mexican Revolution to El Paso,” Mexidata.info, June 14, 2010; “The Mexican Revolution in El Paso,” La Prensa (San Dieg0), June 18, 2010 Asked about parallels between the migrations of 100 years ago and [...]

The Mexican Revolution in El Paso

Education News: The Mexican Revolution in El Paso Kent Paterson Special to Salem-News.com Asked about parallels between the migrations of 100 years ago and today’s exodus from neighboring Ciudad Juarez, El Paso Prof. Keith Erekson, says specific causes of the dislocations might be different, the terror and trauma suffered by people are similar. A view [...]

In the News: UTEP Hosts Humanities Texas Teacher Institute

Arlene Barrios, “UTEP Hosts Humanities Texas Teacher Institute,” El Paso Magazine, June 3, 2010

Social studies fight ready to heat up again

By Kate Alexander | Austin American-Statesman | Thursday, September 10, 2009, 06:09 PM The next round in the State Board of Education battle over the social studies curriculum standards is about to begin. Next Thursday, the board-appointed expert reviewers are scheduled to testify before the board about the standards written this summer by groups of [...]

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