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Center for History Education Partners with Public Schools
Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) has been awarded a $1 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education to develop and implement a program to improve student achievement in American history. BCPS is partnering with the Center for History Education at the UMBC in this initiative, which will begin in October. For the next three years, 60 elementary, middle and high school teachers will attend workshops and summer institutes to create “history labs,” an innovative approach to teaching and learning about the past. Through history labs, student historians will use primary sources and critical thinking to construct historical narratives and interpretations.
The Center has received five $1 million grants from the U.S. Department of Education’s Teaching American History Grant Program to invigorate the teaching of history in elementary, middle and high schools.
For more information, visit http://www.umbc.edu/che/about/.
Two History Alumni Included in Maryland Historical Magazine
The summer 2009 Maryland Historical Magazine features articles from two UMBC alumni: Richard Hardesty ’02, ’08 M.A. history, for “A Veil of Voodoo” and Willa Banks ’08 M.A. for “Curtis Washington Jacobs: An Architect of Absolute Black Enslavement, 1850-1864.”
Tim Brennan Gives Lectures in Australia and New Zealand
Professor of Public Policy Tim Brennan gave eight talks on regulation, antitrust and energy policy in Australia and New Zealand in July, including a keynote address at the Australian Railway Business Economics Conference in Perth and a keynote address at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in Queensland.
Composition by Will Redman ’99, Music, Featured in “Out of Your Head”
A composition titled, “Book,” by Will Redman ’99, music, will be featured at a musician’s collective called “Out of Your Head” on Tuesday, August 4, at The Windup Space in Baltimore. This will be the first large-scale performance of this composition, which is an unordered collection of 98 graphic composition rendered in black ink on a sheet of letter- sized white paper.
The Windup Space is at 10-12 W. North Avenue, and the event includes two 45-minute presentations from 9:30 p.m.-12 a.m.
For more information, contact outofyourhead@gmail.com.