Controversial Topics Government High School 
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. One former student who appreciates what he learned from Messick now serves on the school board for the district in which Messick teaches. Were seeing ambition.
Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
School leaders also must create safe spaces for teaching and learning about controversial topics. Imagine, for instance, a high school government teacher who asked her students to follow the primary social media channels of the two primary political parties here in the United States.
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ED Surge
APRIL 26, 2024
Stark Division on LGBTQ+ Topics Researchers asked participants to decide on the appropriateness of potentially controversial topics like the discussion of sex ed, racism and LGBTQ+ issues at both the elementary and high school levels. A majority of all groups said it was appropriate for high school.)
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. Capitol the previous day. Duane Moore teaches U.S.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 25, 2021
High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. I personally love it because you know what? It’s how this country was built, the way our Founding Fathers stormed the British Empire.”.
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