Civics Controversial Topics Cultures 
Teaching American History
MARCH 11, 2025
She also encourages them to figure out their own political views and to actively engage in civic life. As immigrant students from Somalia, Venezuela, and elsewhere have swelled the student population in her district, students attitudes toward racial, religious, and cultural diversity have shifted toward greater openness.
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.
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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.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 25, 2021
Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. It’s baked into aspects of our culture.” history and civics, and many leave school with big gaps in political knowledge. Should we expect schools to develop engaged and responsible democratic citizens? The pathology is white supremacy,” he said.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Schools are afraid of dividing and triggering their students amid the fraught, frenzied, hyperpartisan, superpolarized and downright ugly political culture of our country right now. It’s time we looked at the 2020 presidential race not as one that is too contentious to touch, but rather as an exercise in how to teach controversial issues.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 9, 2024
College campuses have become battlegrounds in America’s culture wars, with diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the center of the debate. Millions in state funding originally set aside for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, or DEI, is now being redirected to race-neutral programs, including civics education. Hey, Phillip.
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