Controversial Topics Cultures Events 
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. Parent groups have complained that teachers are injecting controversial topics into lessons.
ED Surge
MARCH 26, 2024
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.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 11, 2018
Ultimately, we can’t prepare children for living in a rich, diverse democracy if we don’t expose them to the controversial topics inherent in our democracy.”. There’s something about race that’s so fundamentally uncomfortable in our culture — especially when it intercepts with conversations about class and privilege.”.
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 16, 2024
Richardson says outside events left her feeling limited by the restrictions of the job. Events like the Supreme Court rulings on race-conscious admission and reproductive rights, and female Ivy League presidents called to testify before Congress. Kirk] And Rivera says that has consequences for turnover rates and campus culture.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 25, 2021
It’s baked into aspects of our culture.” While education levels are not related to conservative beliefs about economic policy, they are related to conservative beliefs about the value of cultural diversity. event — they’ve been taught this hatred. The pathology is white supremacy,” he said. It’s baked into institutions.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 9, 2024
College campuses have become battlegrounds in America’s culture wars, with diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the center of the debate. Matthew Trott] We eventually did, of course, get her approved, and it was a huge event where we had a full house of about 750 and had to turn away probably an equal number. Hey, Phillip.
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