ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

If we don’t offer educators the opportunity to rethink their intellectual ideas — about climate change, science, inequality — it makes it really difficult to do this work.” Social science does not support that. Kids come in with, ‘Humans harm the earth and the earth is dying,’” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

In many universities, humanities requirements exist in engineering schools and department, but are fairly modest. At Northwestern University, seven quarter-long courses in social science or humanities are required for engineers. “A well-crafted research paper wastes no words — like a poem.”. The post An Ode To STEM?

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