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OPINION: This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever

The Hechinger Report

Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge. That tide includes bans on state funding for teaching DEI in schools, public colleges and state agencies. California is leading the way by requiring the teaching of ethnic studies at the secondary level.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

Andrea Queeley teaches her course about societies and cultures of the Caribbean at Florida International University. The crisis begs the question: When there’s only so much money and only so many students, how should universities decide what to teach and not teach?

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

Related: How higher education lost its shine The saying “where you stand depends on where you sit” is apt in this debate; I’m executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, and I’m struck by how infrequently colleges of arts and sciences are factored into the conversation.

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OPINION: Lessons from Mississippi: Is there really a miracle here we can all learn from?

The Hechinger Report

The gains are due to the steps Mississippi took to support the teaching of literacy skills in early elementary classrooms and not, as some have suggested , due to the manipulation of the student population taking the test or to aligning Mississippi’s learning standards specifically to the NAEP standards. Pallas is the Arthur I.

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Reading Is Fundamental: Using “Entrance Tickets” to Aid Student Learning

Norton Learning - Sociology

Janis Prince is an associate professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Saint Leo University. She has taught at least 16 unique sociology classes, including the sociology of deviance, gender, race, medical sociology, along with quantitative and qualitative methods.

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What’s it like to teach psychology?

Jonathan Firth

I’ve been teaching Psychology at secondary school level for almost two decades. This article discusses routes into teaching the subject. Changing Routes into school teaching It used to be very difficult to get into Psychology teaching at school level. There are also a wide range of resources for A-Level Psychology.