Digital Promise
MAY 28, 2019
The civic curriculum for young children usually doesn’t expand beyond “do not talk to strangers,” writes Harvard professor Danielle Allen in her book Talking to Strangers. But one day, on a walk, they found a Little Free Library — a small, public book exchange that looked like a house. The children’s book about D.C.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 22, 2024
Now, with a new book coming out in May, provocatively titled “MATH- ish ,” Boaler is fighting back. She had written a book, “What’s Math Got to Do with It?: Might we trade off a bit of short-term math achievement for a greater good of a numerate, civic society? I see it as a form of knowledge suppression.”
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 12, 2024
Related: Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids – and ignites controversy Sanes is at the far end of the teaching spectrum when it comes to promoting climate activism, not to mention discussing controversial issues of any kind in his classroom. I just wanted to hit my books, get my degree,” she recalled. When I first got there.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
After all, walking out of school to vote or to support your friends’ constitutional right to do so is evidence they learned something in civics class, their grades notwithstanding. As the philosopher John Dewey wrote in his classic book Democracy and Education in 1903, “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Calling for more civics and history instruction is nothing new. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. Only one-third of native-born Americans can correctly answer the basic civics questions required of naturalized individuals to achieve U.S. We are not setting our children up for success.
ED Surge
APRIL 15, 2024
Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. In a book I recently co-authored, I suggested that inquiry is to education like liberty is to democracy — it’s baked into the cake. C3 dropped like a feather.
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