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How school leaders can combat ‘filter bubbles’ and ‘fake news’

Dangerously Irrelevant

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. cross-posted at Front and Central ].

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We must not allow bigots on campus to hide behind free speech

The Hechinger Report

If, after class, you read tweets by the same professor saying that black students are “generally inferior academically to white students” and that members of the LBGTQ community only want marriage rights “to get spousal fringe benefits from the government,” you might find fault with your professor’s boss for not firing the prejudiced chauvinist.

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Sitting for long periods affect on teens’ mental health, resumés for robots and more in the news roundup

Psych Learning Curve

An old and contested solution to boost reading scores: phonics (The New York Times ) The bible for these educators is a body of research produced by linguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists. Six years is the timespan the federal government uses to measure graduation rates.

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Where Americans Are — and Aren’t — Politically Divided on Education

ED Surge

Polikoff and his fellow researchers at the University of California, where he’s a professor of education, set out to find what Americans think about topics that have been roiled in controversy over the past several years. “A What’s the Point? But when it comes to the average American?

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Should teachers be apolitical?

The Hechinger Report

Samantha Palu, a high school government teacher in South Dakota, came to school on Jan. Palu’s principal backed her up, but she worries about backlash when she tackles controversial topics in the future. government and African American history in Hamilton, Ohio. Capitol the previous day. Duane Moore teaches U.S.

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

Research has found that people with less education are more likely to be racist and hostile to people of color, and that more educated people have more political knowledge and are more politically active. Noorya Hayat, a senior researcher at CIRCLE, said a “ targeted approach to supporting teachers can boost their confidence.”

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The empress’ new clothes

The Hechinger Report

New research from different fields shows that black families’ opportunities are limited because of their race. All that this research proves is that the Trump/Roseanne brand of populism represents the voices of the powerful and the corrupt railing against vulnerable minorities. Related: Who benefits from research on racial disparities?