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Black teachers ground down by racial battle fatigue after a year like no other

The Hechinger Report

In a state with 96 percent of its teaching staff being white, choosing teaching was to be no different,” the 27-year-old high school teacher in Minneapolis wrote in her blog this winter. Her post about her resignation received more than 10,000 views, from people all over the world — the highest ever for her blog, she said.

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Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

A Psychology Teacher Writes

So running some PD on questioning techniques because you’ve read a few great blogs or books on it is pointless unless you’re pretty sure that almost everyone else in the room is going to actually benefit from it. That means finding something that hits home whether you teach A level Economics or KS3 Music, and everything in between.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. The human past has been shaped by harnessing and consuming materials and energy.

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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. This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy.

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Biased Professors? Try Disclosure

MPSA

One of our sister social scienceseconomics—is among the least liberal of the academic disciplines. Smith is a Professor of Political Science at Emporia State University where he teaches classes on state and local politics, campaigns and elections, political philosophy, legislative politics, and nonprofit management.