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Kids, you’re not ‘stamped’
Moshe K. Levy considers himself “pro-human” rather than “anti-racist,” he writes on FAIR’s site. So he’s not a fan of Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped (For Kids), which is being taught in elementary and middle...
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What’s ‘age appropriate’ for young students?
When are children ready to learn about slavery, the Trail of Tears or the Holocaust? Parents and teachers want lessons to be “age appropriate,” but disagree on when children are ready for painful...
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Teaching slavery
To illustrate the horrors of slave ships, a middle-school teacher told three black students to lie on the floor and stepped on a girl’s back. The teacher — now reassigned — is white. Most of her...
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Teaching ‘Black Panther’
? Black Panther, a huge box office hit, is a “hit with teachers” too, reports Brenda Iasevoli in Ed Week. Teachers are building lessons based on the film, set in the super hi-tech, uncolonized African...
View ArticleLearning patriotism
?Ukraine’s Parliament sang the national anthem on March 3 as Russian artillery began targeting “key buildings” in Kyiv. “We’ll not spare either our souls or bodies to get freedom,” the Ukrainian...
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Public schools are supposed to educate citizens
Public schools are supposed to prepare children for citizenship in a democracy — not just prep them for college and careers, writes George Packer in The Atlantic. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Because...
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Opting out of what?
Indiana parents were told they could opt out of lessons on “equity, caring and understanding differences” designed “in honor of Valentine’s Day and Black History Month,” reports Julian Mark in the...
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To teach reading, teach history, science …
Reading isn’t a “general skill that can be applied with equal success to all texts,” writes cognitive scientist Dan Willingham in the New York Times. “Comprehension is intimately intertwined with...
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Teaching slavery
To illustrate the horrors of slave ships, a middle-school teacher told three black students to lie on the floor and stepped on a girl’s back. The teacher — now reassigned — is white. Most of her...
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Teaching ‘Black Panther’
? Black Panther, a huge box office hit, is a “hit with teachers” too, reports Brenda Iasevoli in Ed Week. Teachers are building lessons based on the film, set in the super hi-tech, uncolonized African...
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History with dysentery
? Fifty years ago, students first battled hunger, storms, bandits and, of course, dysentery to travel the Oregon Trail, a pioneering educational video game, reports Greg Toppo on The 74. Three student...
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Students say ‘no” to humanities majors
When I started college in the Bronze Age, I listed a dozen possible majors. Everything that didn’t involve science, math or a foreign language interested me. Eventually, English and creative writing...
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Poll: Teach about racism — and about progress
Martin Luther King, Jr., at the March on Washington, 1963. Photo: Wikipedia Commons Schools should teach our country’s history of racism and that there’s been significant progress toward racial...
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America is the place that ‘invented freedom’
Raised in Berkeley — she remembers when free speech was a left-wing thing — Caitlin Flanagan though of America as “this all-powerful, invulnerable, monolithic thing,” she tells Yascha Mounk in a...
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Teaching slavery
To illustrate the horrors of slave ships, a middle-school teacher told three black students to lie on the floor and stepped on a girl’s back. The teacher — now reassigned — is white. Most of her...
View ArticleVirtual reality in history, science
Virtual reality can immerse students in history, write Jennifer Rich, Michael Haley Goldman and Sara Pitcairn, who are working on holocaust education. A team at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) and...
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Is your kid learning CRT?
Is your child learning critical race theory at school?, asks the Babylon Bee. We all know that CRT is simply the honest teaching of American history. It’s also a niche legal theory that is only taught...
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To teach reading, teach history, science …
Reading isn’t a “general skill that can be applied with equal success to all texts,” writes cognitive scientist Dan Willingham in the New York Times. “Comprehension is intimately intertwined with...
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History is taught as texts without context
Who’s that man? Why is the crowd gathered? Teachers aren’t supposed to say. Studying texts, without context, is no way to learn history, writes Will Fitzhugh on Diane Ravitch’s blog. But it’s the...
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Teaching ‘Black Panther’
? Black Panther, a huge box office hit, is a “hit with teachers” too, reports Brenda Iasevoli in Ed Week. Teachers are building lessons based on the film, set in the super hi-tech, uncolonized African...
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