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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“News literacy is fundamental to preparing students to become active, critically thinking members of our civic life — which should be one of the primary goals of a public education,” Kim Bowman, News Literacy Project senior research manager and author of the report, said in an email interview. “If

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MAY 20, 2024

Fiske had been previously employed by an independent school in California, while in a doctoral program for education psychology, researching how people learn, she says. McCoy says he prizes them primarily for instilling moral and civic virtues in students. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The research did find benefits of the activities as well, with a significant boost in feelings of solidarity with classmates and civic engagement. But some groups are now questioning whether the benefits are worth the psychological downsides to students.

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APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. This is her third year in the profession. History class.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

So on the first day of my educational psychology class, I say … my job isn't to make sure that you're never uncomfortable. So on one hand we teachers have our own version of the Hippocratic oath: ‘First do no harm.’ None of us ever wants to cause harm for our students.

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