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September 12, 2016

Teaching the Election Doesn’t Require Neutrality

This history teacher offers a strategy for teaching about the presidential election. It starts with organizing ideas into three categories: consensus, legitimately controversial and out of bounds.

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October 20, 2015

Teaching Students About Historical Significance

How can educators push their students to think past a static understanding of history in developmentally appropriate ways? This teacher offers some insights from his classroom.

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Bullying & Bias

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November 10, 2015

Teaching Thanksgiving in a Socially Responsible Way

Educators have an ethical obligation to teach accurately about Thanksgiving. Here are some online resources that can help.

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April 17, 2017

Teach Identity and Diversity—Even in Science Class

As Earth Day approaches, it’s a good time to think about how you approach issues of identity and diversity when it comes to the environment—regardless of the subject you teach. Here’s how one science teacher did it.

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April 19, 2017

Teaching Students to See Each Other

This English teacher’s students engage in lots of self-reflection toward the end of the year. This year, she added in a missing element: questions about how they’ve affected each other.

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December 7, 2016

Teaching in a Post-Truth Era

In an era in which truth is no longer the main currency of public reason, we must prepare our students to navigate and disrupt lies perpetuated by politicians and media outlets.

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Rights & Activism

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January 11, 2017

Teaching the Inauguration

Struggling with how to address the upcoming inauguration in your classroom? Consider teaching about inaugural history.

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January 25, 2017

Teaching the Unteachable

How do you teach current events in a highly politicized climate in which facts have alternate versions and newspaper editors have worn out the thesaurus looking up synonyms for lie?

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March 1, 2017

Teach This: HBCUs Are Not Pioneers of School Choice

This week’s statement from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on historically black colleges and universities is a prime example of whitewashing U.S. history. Classroom teachers for grades 6-12, however, can use this moment as a teaching opportunity.

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Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

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March 8, 2017

Teaching Students About Confirmation Bias

Concerns about the impact of fake news are actually concerns about learning to know. That’s why teaching about confirmation bias is imperative.

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