ED Surge
MARCH 26, 2024
He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. Cote is not alone in pinning hopes on AI to help the teaching of civics.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 26, 2022
Related: Helping science teachers tackle misinformation and controversial topics. I often put a dot on my board,” said Chris Kerrick, a civics teacher at Marshall County High School in rural southwestern Kentucky. “I For example, at my school, I have not taken a class solely about navigating media.
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ED Surge
MARCH 30, 2023
Together, we explored how to engage in civic life with love and wisdom. I remember my childhood as a time of mutual exploration, where you encouraged us to discuss any manner of potentially controversial topics. She will forever be one of my greatest teachers. This was not the way you raised me, though, mom.
Diane Ravitch
AUGUST 30, 2022
People familiar with DeSantis’s efforts to restrict classroom discussion of controversial topics had no trouble believing that he would try to prevent young people from reading controversial or challenging books. How many of these books have you read? Have your children read most of them? What on earth is going on in Florida?
The Hechinger Report
JULY 11, 2018
“Without social studies, we lose the civic mission of public schools,” said Stephanie Serriere, a former early-grade teacher who is now an associate professor of social studies education at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students.
C3 Teachers
MAY 23, 2022
Most importantly, I want the course content to be relevant to their lives as future teachers, and I want them to see themselves as civic and political actors. In support of this claim, preservice teachers may point to the ways that inquiry can work to interrogate complex topics while allowing students to come to their own conclusions.
ED Surge
APRIL 26, 2024
One hope is that rather than balkanizing into red state and blue state education policy agendas , that we can have sensible, civic-minded reforms that large majorities of people can support.” The study is based on survey responses from 3,905 U.S.
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