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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

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.’ Perspective Questions can also be asked from specific points-of-view–a student could answer a question about government from the perspective of a modern citizen, citizen of an ancient culture, famous historical figure, specific political party, etc. These can also be thought of as Thematic or Conceptual Questions.

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5 Ways To Create Positive Parent-Teacher Relationships

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

When they collected the tear gas canisters, they found they were made in and sent from the US company CTS, Combined Tactical Systems Inc. Though not directly provided by the US government, my interlocuters suspected that the weapons may have been bought with military aid money from the United States.

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Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

Anthropology News

He also worked for the US government, polygraphing German prisoners of war during World War II, as well as hundreds of employees of the top-secret uranium production facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He persuaded banks that it would help them identify employees who embezzled.

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Frontiers and Failures: Kyrsten Sinema’s Political Aesthetics

Anthropology News

Her cowboy outfit at the border fence—a site of cruelty, dispossession, and social and ecological genocide—directly referenced the frontier and its forced ownership by the US government.