Civics Controversial Topics Education 
Teaching American History
MARCH 11, 2025
She also encourages them to figure out their own political views and to actively engage in civic life. Understanding the Reality of Public Education During her more than twenty years teaching government at the general and AP levels, Messick has certainly seen changes. In 2023, he returned the encouragement Messick had given him.
ED Surge
MARCH 26, 2024
When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. Cote is not alone in pinning hopes on AI to help the teaching of civics.
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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.
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.
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
Teachers and administrators get acquainted at a Border Crossers workshop for educators about discussing race and racism in the classroom. One of the longtime goals of public education is to produce young people capable of participating in the democratic process. Often, educators say, that training is lacking. BROOKLYN, N.Y. —
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.
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