Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Being an informed citizen, being a critical thinker, being able to deeply and thoughtfully analyze complex texts – these have all been traditional student roles in schools but they are taking new forms in our emerging information spaces. School leaders also must create safe spaces for teaching and learning about controversial topics.

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Controversial Topics Government Tradition Leadership 94

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

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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Controversial Topics Leadership Charter School Government 105

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.

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Controversial Topics Psychology Elementary School Pedagogy 52