Last year thousands of schools participated in Mix It Up at Lunch Day—and this year is going to be even better. Start planning now to make your Mix It Up even the best it can be.
In the wake of a convicted rapist’s early release, now is a good time to reinforce with students that rape is a cultural problem that all of us must stand against.
As the current election cycle reaches its climax, establishing “intellectually safe” communities of inquiry can help mitigate the negative effects the campaign has had on children and classrooms.
Game time is being cut in exchange for increased direct instruction time in reading and mathematics. But research shows that games actually nourish the brain—and one teacher uses them daily in her classroom.
Mandating Holocaust education in U.S. public schools and simultaneously banning or censoring other “hard histories” is ineffective, disingenuous and further demonstrates the importance of teaching honest history.
Danny Cross is a freelance writer and editor with 10 years' experience at Cincinnati's alternative newsweekly, CityBeat, where he was most recently editor in chief. Danny holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Cincinnati and a master's in journalism from the University of Oregon. He is slated to teach his first journalism class as an adjunct instructor at the University of Cincinnati this fall.