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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. It is pernicious, it is cruel, and it must change,” he writes. Fordham Institute.

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Teaching What Self-Government Requires

Teaching American History

An Understanding of Human Nature Bryan Little of McPherson, Kansas noted that teaching government through primary documents helps students see our constitutional framework as a design based on an understanding of human nature. “I Does this author, in your view, actually understand typical human behavior?”

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Teaching What Self-Government Requires

Teaching American History

An Understanding of Human Nature Bryan Little of McPherson, Kansas noted that teaching government through primary documents helps students see our constitutional framework as a design based on an understanding of human nature. “I Does this author, in your view, actually understand typical human behavior?”

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4QM & Civics: Question Two Helps Civic Discourse

4QM Teaching

The Four Question Method wasn’t explicitly designed to teach civics, but we think it does a really good job of it. helps students to develop a critical civic disposition: listening to people who we expect to disagree with. The post 4QM & Civics: Question Two Helps Civic Discourse appeared first on 4QM Teaching.

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It was only a matter of time before the #MeToo movement rocked schools

The Hechinger Report

Last week, in a letter addressed to the “KIPP Team and Family,” the executive leadership of the powerful charter school network announced the dismissal of one of its co-founders, Mike Feinberg, stemming from a sexual abuse allegation by one of Feinberg’s students from the late 1990s. An assistant teacher secretly recorded the incident.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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Creating Impact and Art Through Partnerships

Digital Promise

Civic engagement is at the foundation of the ExCITe Center’s work, and Kim is constantly brokering partnerships with individual schools, teachers, and community groups; the EdClusters work is a natural extension. Michael O'Bryan Director of Youth and Young Adult Programs, The Village of Arts and Humanities.