Catlin Tucker
JUNE 16, 2024
Providing students with choices to transfer and apply their learning encourages deeper thinking and enhances their ability to communicate their understanding effectively. These choices promote active engagement, critical thinking, and the ability to connect and apply concepts in various contexts.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 5, 2024
Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge. There, too often, struggling students attempt to discredit the educator and the field of social science. Education is meant to broaden horizons and encourage critical thinking.
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But those same students don’t have many of the math skills that professors think they actually do need. But that’s maybe 20 percent. The other 80 percent, what about them?” Majors that require calculus were excluded.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 10, 2022
“In the best case scenario, a student would be exposed to media literacy practices and concepts throughout the day, in math classes and science classes, not just in English and social sciences.”. Spikes, director of Teach for Chicago Journalism at Northwestern University and co-founder of the Illinois Media Literacy Coalition.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Class discussions about climate change news can help students see connections between their news practices and their academic work, while showing that familiarity with news is a social practice and a form of civic engagement. There is still much work to be done to help students translate climate anxiety into shared action.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 7, 2022
The Sunnyside district, where roughly 90 percent of students are Hispanic, signed on at the start of the pandemic, after discovering that many of its ninth graders were struggling with the demands of recently adopted state standards for social science.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 1, 2018
These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. And that alone will unleash critical thinking and innovation.
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