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A ‘summer camp’ for teachers fills a gap in environmental education

The Hechinger Report

Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as social studies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.

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Responding to a summer of riots: Principles for teaching about sensitive issues in the history classroom

Becoming a History Teacher

8) for teaching controversial and sensitive histories (inspired by work from colleagues such as Mohamud & Whitburn, 2016; Mohamud & Whitburn, 2019; Elias & Spafford, 2021; Kerridge & Snelson, 2022) that provide a valuable tool for developing our approach to handling this challenge in the classroom. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

It’s baked into aspects of our culture.” Young people who went to college were “20 percentage points more likely to vote than those who had not attended college” in the 2016 election. A solution for America’s political crisis isn’t possible if citizens don’t have a firm grasp of what’s causing the problem. It’s baked into institutions.

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