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COLUMN: Want teachers to teach climate change? You’ve got to train them

The Hechinger Report

Schools have to address student climate anxiety, provide them knowledge and skills, including the ability to recognize misinformation, and empower them to act, while schools also “clean up their act” by decarbonizing their physical infrastructure. We’ve been doing research with New York City Public Schools for the past 6-7 years.

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OPINION: National Arts in Education Week celebrates the transformative powers of creative skills

The Hechinger Report

The arts provide dimension and perspective, and they help students develop the critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills they will need to succeed in school, work and life. Marinell Rousmaniere is the president and CEO of EdVestors , a school improvement organization in Boston.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. And I think teaching offers that in a way that no other profession does. Was your own experience in school largely positive or largely negative?

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COLUMN: The world is waking up to education’s essential role in climate solutions

The Hechinger Report

As a case in point, I recently interviewed Danny Cage, a high school student and organizer for the Sunrise Movement in Portland, Oregon. This spring, he and fellow student leaders helped get Portland Public Schools to adopt one of the most ambitious climate policies in the nation. You have more critical thinking skills.”.

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OPINION: We can’t become a nation of equal learners until we become a nation of readers

The Hechinger Report

That’s why advanced reading correlates so highly with critical thinking skills. But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. Others blame schools and teachers for “failing” our kids, but the data suggest otherwise. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Identifying the Top Four Challenges in K-12 Education

Digital Promise

For example, we grouped together “creating authentic learning opportunities,” “challenge-based or problem-based learning,” and “developing civic knowledge through hands-on community engagement” because they all use hands-on, collaborative activities that are based on real-world conditions.

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Are traditional admission policies increasing racial inequality?

The Hechinger Report

You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. We’re a land grant public institution with a commitment to our state and our city, and that’s the talent we should be cultivating,” said Nancy Cantor, who has been chancellor at Rutgers-Newark for two years.