Controversial Topics Education Government 
Teaching American History
MARCH 11, 2025
Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. By August 2024 she would complete her degree in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, giving her time for such an endeavor.
ED Surge
MARCH 26, 2024
When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. EdSurge connected with Cote and Davison Humphries for this week’s EdSurge Podcast.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
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.
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.
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? Six years is the timespan the federal government uses to measure graduation rates.
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.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Samantha Palu, a high school government teacher in South Dakota, came to school on Jan. 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. Alyssa Dunn, an education professor at Michigan State University.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
96 
Let's personalize your content