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Why Government Teacher Amy Messick Ran For School Board

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Since the disruption of schooling during COVID, shes also spent time catching students up on critical thinking skills. Parent groups have complained that teachers are injecting controversial topics into lessons. School boards are responding with directives to avoid controversial topics, Messick said.

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Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?

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It’s just more complex and time consuming, he says, to gauge how much a student has learned about, say, how to weigh two competing views of a historical event in an essay assignment. It’s really contingent on hours of the day and human buy-in,” he says. Cote is not alone in pinning hopes on AI to help the teaching of civics.

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Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

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Increasing the self-knowledge, esteem and confidence of our young people builds resilience and skill in tackling controversial topics and issues, as detailed earlier by Chowdhury.* Enable students to distinguish right from wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law of England. Is there evidence that comedy is ‘dying’?