Superlative Social Studies Instruction
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When the Supreme Court decided Students for Fair Admissions (the Harvard affirmative action case) last week, the decision encompassed 237 pages of analysis in the various opinions. A couple of things stand out. One...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ended the practice of using race-based affirmative action in college admissions. The case sparked a flurry of opinions encompassing 237 pages, including Clarence Thomas’s 58 page concurrence and Justice Sotomayor’s...
The kerfuffle over the new AP African American Studies course, engendered by critical comments by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, has thankfully come to a swift conclusion. Last week, the College Board announced it had...
Frederick Hess, the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, has an interesting piece in this week’s issue of Time. He argues that civics instruction needs to encompass more than just...
Princeton history professor Julian Zelizer has a fascinating article in The Atlantic today about mistakes historians make when appearing as news analysts. Zelizer’s position is that there are five common stock phrases historians misuse...
The Rand Corporation published its findings of a survey it conducted of K-12 teachers on the purpose of Civics instruction. The survey produced some interesting results. By far the number one response was promoting...
Civics / current events / education policy / U.S. History
by derekr1024 · Published October 12, 2022
I ran across a good discussion on a podcast about how to discuss controversial issues in classrooms. It involves several teachers, including Robert Pondiscio who is a fellow at AEI, and a Texas state...
I recently ran across a post from earlier in the summer about using the Four Question method in discussion of controversial issues in class. Gary Shiffman and Jonathan Bassett propose that discussions should revolve...
The new movie the Woman King has opened at the #1 spot in the box office. It is an entertaining film featuring female warriors known as the Agojie. They are from Dahomey, an actual...
As Constitution Day approaches, I thought I would post a link to a series of essays the Constitution Center posted in 2017. The series features essays on how we have drifted away from Madison’s...
The New York Times ran a series of op-eds this week trying to answer the question “What is School For?” The authors put forth various perspectives and arrived at divergent answers to the question....
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