From addressing racial disparities to restoring forests, five newly funded public engagement projects in the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis will help communities in California and around the world shape their future.
The California History-Social Science Project, headquartered at UC Davis, will share a national K-12 teaching award with the California Department of Education for helping to write the state’s new framework for history-social science instruction in the public schools.
The American Historical Association recently announced that it will award its Beveridge Family Teaching Prize to the co-winners.
A UC Davis-run workshop that brings the history of the Transcontinental Railroad to life for schoolteachers is back on track for summer 2017, thanks to a fourth round of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Four alumni will be watching closely Oct. 8–9 when a proposed new framework for history and social sciences instruction in California K–12 schools gets its first public hearing.