Controversial Topics Critical Thinking Cultures 
Teaching American History
MARCH 11, 2025
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. Since the disruption of schooling during COVID, shes also spent time catching students up on critical thinking skills.
ED Surge
MARCH 26, 2024
But even though Cote agrees that human grading is superior to what a bot can do, the reality is that teachers don’t have time to grade the number of essay assignments he thinks is really necessary to get kids fluent in the knowledge and critical thinking skills they’ll need to be effective citizens in our democracy.
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Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 22, 2023
This promotes critical thinking and historical empathy. Exploring Different Cultures: When discussing cultural differences and traditions, the teacher could prompt students to share their initial assumptions and how their views changed as they learned about diverse cultures.
Psych Learning Curve
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
In education, there are many buzzwords about effective pedagogy including real-world connection, critical thinking, and employing student voice. This safety is reinforced by the implied or stated requirement for educators to be “apolitical” and avoid controversial topics with students, families, and colleagues.
C3 Teachers
MAY 23, 2022
To support this claim, preservice teachers might bring up the inherently political components of language preservation projects, food sovereignty, linguistic justice, abolitionist teaching, and/or culturally relevant pedagogy (Nickman, 2009; NK 360, 2018; Lyiscott, 2014; Baker Bell, 2020; Love, 2019; Ladson Billings, 1995; 2014).
Geogramblings
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Our world has shrunk due to the spread and influence of popular culture and branding; we are more connected whether physically through higher speed extensive transportation or digitally through the internet. Not just between cultures and groups but also harmony within. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’.
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.
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