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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. These ideas have revived interest in E.D.

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"What are we teaching? Powerful knowledge and a capabilities curriculum" - a review

Living Geography

The latest book by geography teacher Richard Bustin was published by Crown House Publishing in October 2024. It embraces in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards. The capabilities approach helps geography educators everywhere to articulate the importance of children learning how to think geographically.

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Sustainability - teaching geography in a changed world

Living Geography

Description of the event: This is an important time to be a geography teacher. Education, wide and fast, is necessary if humans are going to turn the situation around in the coming decade, to enable human survival into the 22nd century. Will they be ready?

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

In addition to academic requirements like high-level mathematics and science courses (required for many tertiary tracks but not always available or required at township schools ), Launch accomplishes its mission through unique pedagogies intended to expand students’ aspirations and propel them toward “fulfilling futures.”

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Of course, we can talk about pedagogy and state standards, but teaching is a people profession. That's always been my ‘why.’

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The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

ED Surge

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. Throughout her career, Swan has been interested in inquiry-based pedagogy, drawing from her experiences as a teacher. She then earned her Ph.D.

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Selfless Selfishness to Cope with Community Violence

Maitri Learning

The only thing I could think to do was give them a geography lesson with the United States puzzle map to show them how far New York and DC were from our school in Springfield, Massachusetts. Can you imagine being in their situation and witnessing how humans can self-organize to solve immense problems? I was in shock.