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What 2015 Holds for the Future of Education

Digital Promise

As we all take time to reflect on 2014, now is also a good time to look forward to 2015. This past year was eventful in education – we saw new measures to connect schools around the country , concepts like maker spaces, design thinking, and coding make their way into the mainstream, and teachers become more tech-savvy and connected.

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OPINION: Proud of your students for walking out? Here’s what to do when they walk back in

The Hechinger Report

But if this civic action is to be sustained and to extend to topics beyond gun violence and school safety, schools need to do more to nurture these students’ dispositions toward political participation so they can continue to engage in informed and effective ways. Related: COLUMN: Making America whole again via civics education.

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Ohio: Legislature Wants a Course in Capitalism, Not Financial Literacy

Diane Ravitch

Yes, learning about capitalism is more important for Ohio students than the critical need for media literacy and increased research and critical thinking skills in an age of artificial intelligence and fake news.

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Are traditional admission policies increasing racial inequality?

The Hechinger Report

You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. I worked at Columbia [University], and a lot of those kids are given permission to think critically, but not all of our young people have been,” said Marta Esquilin, the new associate dean for the HLLC. “I

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Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

C3 Teachers

As they do this, I want the students to be active in the learning process and I want them to be critical, but I don’t want to influence them so much that I do the work for them or crush their spirits. than to disclose their perspective on abortion.

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. At its core, social studies aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to actively participate in civic affairs.

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Education unfits us for slavery; we need to protect the Department of Education

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, white students became the minority in our public schools (partly a result of white students’ overrepresentation in private schools). These kinds of head-scratching, politically ignorant actions lay bare the very reason that people need a quality liberal arts education. It was an effective tactic to suppress a people — then and now.