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What If Myths, Metaphors and Riddles Are the Key to Reshaping K-12 Education?

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For the last few decades, educational reform has been coasting on these outdated ideas about human nature, about human psychology and human society,” says Hendrickson. What he suggests … is that we look at how myths operate as narratives — so we can design an intellectually vivid history curriculum,” Hendrickson writes in his blog post.

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Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session

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Former NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz writes about a related trend in her latest column for Hechinger: Colleges embedding climate-related content into all sorts of classes — sociology, history, English literature, French. “We According to the nonprofit group Second Nature, only about 12 universities are carbon neutral.

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We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It

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Much of that had to do with the fact that I was learning about Black histories for the first time. I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history.

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What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms

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That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. And people have that history in their awareness and the fight that their communities have engaged in to be able to access education.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

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Since then, states such as Arkansas and Texas have also opposed the true teaching of the history of Black people in this country by dropping African American history courses and eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. We must be deliberate in the ways in which we prepare teachers to serve the community. This is dire.

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A Fifth of Students at Community College Are Still in High School

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Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Good for Everyone?

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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

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The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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