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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

TeachThought

It’s not very scalable in a classroom with one teacher and 34 students, which is where the Socrative Seminar comes in–a ‘built-for-the-classroom structure to bring learning-through-questioning’ into traditional educational spaces. These can also be thought of as Thematic or Conceptual Questions.

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How would movie director Wes Anderson explain the traditions and rituals of the SOTU Address?

US Government Teachers Blog

Yeah, no student ever asked that question. But, if one ever does, an answer might look like this video (3:51) from CNN.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects.

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Work rules for benefits programs deter low-income Americans from going to college

The Hechinger Report

Some of those concerns are I feel like not only a red herring but also fairly unfounded in terms of what the data tell us.” Government programs should be the last entity that should be restricting things that we know work.” They’re independent, they’re student parents, they’re undocumented.”

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Frontiers and Failures: Kyrsten Sinema’s Political Aesthetics

Anthropology News

Her cowboy outfit at the border fence—a site of cruelty, dispossession, and social and ecological genocide—directly referenced the frontier and its forced ownership by the US government. Sinema’s border outfit, indexing the cowboy, attempts to frame herself within this tradition.