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How the science of vaccination is taught (or not) in US schools

The Hechinger Report

At the same time, in recent years, confidence in the science of vaccinations has been trending downward — one recent survey shows that the percentage of American adults reporting it is “very important” to have their children vaccinated dropped 11 points between 2008 and 2018.

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Middle school science teachers often have shaky scientific knowledge

The Hechinger Report

Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science. Only 7 percent reported feeling “very well prepared” to teach lessons about modern physics, 19 percent about electricity and magnetism and 21 percent about the properties and behaviors of waves, a 2018 National Science Foundation-supported survey found.

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

C3 Teachers

To support this claim, preservice teachers might bring up the inherently political components of language preservation projects, food sovereignty, linguistic justice, abolitionist teaching, and/or culturally relevant pedagogy (Nickman, 2009; NK 360, 2018; Lyiscott, 2014; Baker Bell, 2020; Love, 2019; Ladson Billings, 1995; 2014).