SHEG – Citizen U Primary Source Nexus

TPS Spotlight: SHEG & Beyond the Bubble

February 9, 2021March 6, 2021

Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) is an award-winning research and development group that seeks to improve education by conducting research, working with school districts, and reaching directly into classrooms with free materials for teachers and students. Beyond the Bubble is the cornerstone of SHEG’s membership in the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Consortium….

Teaching & Learning

Timely Connections: Fake News & Civic Reasoning

November 17, 2017January 5, 2022

Practicing primary source analysis helps students develop historical thinking skills that also happen to be very important civic literacy skills. In an article from the Fall 2017 issue of American Educator, Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) provides assessments of online civic reasoning and tips for going beyond identifying news as “fake” or “real” to understanding where…