Balancing Assessments: A Teacher’s Perspective
As a Teaching Ambassador Fellow, my colleagues and I have the honor of speaking with thousands of educators, parents, and students across the country about their greatest hopes for education and what’s...
View ArticleCivil War Regimental Flags for African American Troops
What can a flag tell us about the people who marched behind it? We recently rediscovered these regimental flags from the Library’s online collections and were struck by the vivid imagery and mottoes....
View ArticleFree Graphics: Paperback Psd Book Mockup Vol2
FREE This is the second volume of our paperback psd book mockup with the back cover and new inner page style to let you… Free Graphics Link to this post! Related posts: Free Graphics: Psd Hardback Book...
View ArticleNew Blog Series: New Online
(The following is a guest post by William Kellum, manager in the Library’s Web Services Division.) This is the first post in a new monthly series highlighting new collections, items and presentations...
View Article5 Things To Do After Filing Your FAFSA
Congratulations! You submitted your 2016–17 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®)! Wondering what happens next? Here are a few things to look out for: 1. Review Your Student Aid Report...
View ArticlePic of the Week: A Party of Pulitzers
Docent Ira Adler (front left) escorts a group of Pulitzer Prize winners in the Great Hall last week. The recipientswere in Washington for the kickoff event of a yearlong celebration marking the prize’s...
View ArticleGirls and Coding: Seeing What the Future Can Be
At the White House for the White House Champions of Change for Computer Science Education! From left to right, Gilliam Jacobs, Brittany Greve, Andrea Chaves, Noran Omar and Angela Diep. “You can’t be...
View ArticleTrending: African American History Month
(The following article by Audrey Fischer is from the January/February 2016 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, LCM. You can read the issue in its entirety here.) Carter G. Woodson, 1947. Prints...
View ArticleFree Teacher Webinar, Thursday February 18: Visible Thinking Routines and...
When students learn strategies to make their thinking visible, they progress from learning to think to thinking to learn. When teachers combine visible thinking strategies with primary sources, the...
View ArticleLibrary in the News: January 2016 Edition
January was a month filled with awards and honors. The Library welcomed Gene Luen Yang as the fifth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Michael Cavna of The Washington Post covered the...
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