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Building Vocabulary to Improve Reading

Digital Promise

On Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , the math, social studies, and science teachers implement activities provided for them. Each activity incorporates the target words and controversial topic of the week: The math teacher assigns and discusses one or two problems in a format modeled on the Massachusetts state math assessment.

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Building Vocabulary to Improve Reading

Digital Promise

On Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , the math, social studies, and science teachers implement activities provided for them. Each activity incorporates the target words and controversial topic of the week: The math teacher assigns and discusses one or two problems in a format modeled on the Massachusetts state math assessment.

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How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world

The Hechinger Report

. — One of the longtime goals of public education is to produce young people capable of participating in the democratic process. Experts say that requires regular and high-quality social studies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action.

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

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. Public schools must teach students about democratic struggles over suffrage and civil rights and the nation’s history of white supremacy. It’s baked into institutions.

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Should teachers be apolitical?

The Hechinger Report

The school’s administration later received a phone call from the student’s family expressing concern that Palu was advancing a “political agenda,” she said. Palu’s principal backed her up, but she worries about backlash when she tackles controversial topics in the future. Capitol and other seismic events with their students.