Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 12, 2021

Following up on my previous post , I’m going to share a fantastic blog post from Michael Kaechele : I have grown weary of the call to avoid controversial topics and stay neutral. Educators should help students understand how oppressors justified their actions in history without giving credit to their arguments.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2022

Related: Helping science teachers tackle misinformation and controversial topics. Though it is an unprecedented and daunting task, educators can combat online extremism by equipping themselves with the resources necessary to make media education more comprehensive. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

But the shortage of qualified science educators may be hurting efforts to help more Americans learn how science works. Department of Education. Department of Education nationwide report on teacher shortages, 20 states reported a shortage of middle-school science teachers during the 2017-18 school year. Kentucky isn’t alone.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

And critically, utilizing their expert knowledge to help their pupils to recognise the line between debating controversial topics and engaging in racist or bullying or even illegal behaviours. This means being familiar with their school’s policies around racism and bullying.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Teaching topics like the science of vaccinations elicited little controversy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

I am no longer afraid to jump into uncomfortable conversations on controversial topics. Higher Education. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

As I listen in a little closer, I realize they’re debating everyone’s favorite controversial topic: headdresses worn by white people. As the professor pulls up the slides to begin her lecture, I hear one of the arguing students say, “But it’s just fun, we aren’t doing anything bad. I speak up. What do you think you’re talking about?

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

And that is simply because social studies education necessarily touches on those messy areas of human existence. This post will not spend time arguing why controversy needs to be taught in the classroom. Plenty of great educators have done this already (Diana Hess and Walter Parker anyone!?!). If you can, embrace them!

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Embedding new words into classroom conversations and assignments pegged to topics teens care about. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. Education Reform in the American States. THE DESIGN OF WORD GENERATION.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Embedding new words into classroom conversations and assignments pegged to topics teens care about. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. Education Reform in the American States. THE DESIGN OF WORD GENERATION.

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Diane Ravitch

AUGUST 30, 2022

People familiar with DeSantis’s efforts to restrict classroom discussion of controversial topics had no trouble believing that he would try to prevent young people from reading controversial or challenging books. How many of these books have you read? Have your children read most of them? What on earth is going on in Florida?

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

And that is simply because social studies education necessarily touches on those messy areas of human existence. This post will not spend time arguing why controversy needs to be taught in the classroom. Plenty of great educators have done this already (Diana Hess and Walter Parker anyone!?!). If you can, embrace them!

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The new PhD (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Many doctoral students will not go on to tenure-track professorships, so why should they devote their grad school years to producing a traditional dissertation mainly of value inside academe? However, these are often reserved for contrived examples that are considered safe for the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Photo: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images . Colleges defend professors’ rights to pursue controversial topics of discussion such as climate change, police brutality, charter schools and pornography. Probably” you would probably be confused as to why he taught students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Teachers and administrators get acquainted at a Border Crossers workshop for educators about discussing race and racism in the classroom. One of the longtime goals of public education is to produce young people capable of participating in the democratic process. Often, educators say, that training is lacking. BROOKLYN, N.Y. —

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

But how can teens learn to value others’ perspectives when student journalists are barred from reporting on sensitive topics in their own communities? Censorship for the purpose of image upkeep is antithetical to good journalism education and, more broadly, to democracy. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a social studies assessment course as part of a cross-content assessment course this spring, I started thinking about some of the tension points surrounding not only teacher education, but also student assessment. 6; Love, 2019).

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Within this book, I contributed a chapter on ‘Diversity and Discrimination’ through my work with Diverse Educators. The book also covers topics such as engaging parents/carers, sex education, and media literacy. Supporting those falls under education, health care and perhaps social care.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Song Richardson] And I wanted to start instilling those values of having courageous conversations earlier in their educational lifecycle. Kirk] Richardson is a Harvard-educated civil rights attorney. The Committee on Education and Workforce will come to order. And that meant going to a college. Chair of committee] Good morning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

One critical leadership behavior is helping educators understand that information literacy is everyone’s job, not just that of the librarian or media specialist. All educators now must integrate information literacy in authentic and meaningful ways into ongoing digital and online work with students.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

There are a few problems with those debates, says Morgan Polikoff , one of which is that they’re not particularly informed by evidence about what people want for public education. Researchers started by asking participants about the fundamental purposes of public education, and they found some common values right off the bat.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Higher Education. Related: A case for educational reparations for the incarcerated. I for one would watch a series about educators explaining away the racism in black kids’ repeated suspension and expulsion, inspired by Get Out , the popular, award-winning horror film about white theft of black brains. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2025

Students may also worry about harming their peers, especially during discussions about emotional or controversial topics, says Graham Bullock, an associate professor of political science at Davidson College in North Carolina. At the beginning of the semester, he encourages students to think about their own educational experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Teachers ask if education bears responsibility for the rise in political extremism. Many educators were dismayed that so many Americans see that history as heroic and believe violence is acceptable in a constitutional democracy. According to political scientists, historians and educators themselves, it’s complicated. “I

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

When she started at the school in August, she was told not to say anything “political” in class — a difficult mandate for an educator whose job it is to teach about politics. But for Palu, not addressing the Capitol violence would have been a dereliction of her duty as an educator. “I This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

They must figure out a way to teach this election, rather than limiting their students’ education. 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. I understand — but urge these schools to reconsider.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Even among supporters of diversity and inclusion, some progressive and independent academics concede that some elements of DEI could discourage discussion of controversial topics for fear of offending some students. Peter Hans] Higher education does not exist to settle the most difficult debates in our democracy. Hey, Phillip.

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