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Building Vocabulary to Improve Reading

Digital Promise

Each week, the program activities follow this basic format: On Monday , typically in the English Language Arts classroom, students and their teacher read and discuss a brief text in which the target words are embedded, and which presents arguments on both sides of a controversy or dilemma.

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Sources Talking to Other Sources

C3 Teachers

This post will not spend time arguing why controversy needs to be taught in the classroom. The point is, controversial topics WILL make it into your classroom. Teaching controversial topics makes it on our top 10 list for a reason. If you can, embrace them! It’s not easy. My favorite conclusion?

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Building Vocabulary to Improve Reading

Digital Promise

Each week, the program activities follow this basic format: On Monday , typically in the English Language Arts classroom, students and their teacher read and discuss a brief text in which the target words are embedded, and which presents arguments on both sides of a controversy or dilemma.

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Sources Talking to Other Sources

C3 Teachers

This post will not spend time arguing why controversy needs to be taught in the classroom. The point is, controversial topics WILL make it into your classroom. Teaching controversial topics makes it on our top 10 list for a reason. If you can, embrace them! It’s not easy. My favorite conclusion?

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Bones of Contention: New Evidence of Cannibalism in Magdalenian Culture

Anthropology.net

The idea of prehistoric cannibalism has long been a controversial topic, with scholars divided between those who see it as a survival necessity and those who argue for its role in ritual or warfare. The problem was that, until recently, no definitive conclusion could be drawn about the purpose behind the human bone modifications.

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

They add that “The interplay between what students bring into the classroom and what they experience in school is complex and does not lend itself to easy or definitive answers.”. But it definitely doesn’t help that people don’t understand it.”. It’s peeling onions a little bit: Does a teacher have a trusting relationship?

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The empress’ new clothes

The Hechinger Report

By that definition, the people who struggle the most in our society are black and brown people, LGBTQ people, Muslims, the undocumented — none of whom “Roseanne” speaks for. Instead, it represents the populism of the Trump era, which is nothing more than a euphemism for white working-class angst.