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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In class, students study all the familiar concepts of high school English, but they’re applying these concepts to a work they care about passionately. We watch the show and dissect it.”.

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Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

requirements for the entire state system in Florida, because sociology apparently is radical Marxist teaching, because anything that focuses on inequalities is now being rendered a crime against the state of Florida. And of course, history and social studies teachers. Wells had been a direct witness. to tell these stories.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

requirements for the entire state system in Florida, because sociology apparently is radical Marxist teaching, because anything that focuses on inequalities is now being rendered a crime against the state of Florida. And of course, history and social studies teachers. Most recently, they’ve removed one of the Gen.