Superlative Social Studies Instruction
Helping Educators Teach Civic Competence and Critical Thinking
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...
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...
Leonid Sirota posed an interesting question in a recent blog post The Good Government Trilemma–can a democratically elected government be held accountable by the voters once it becomes sufficiently large in size? In his...
Today, the Supreme Court announced its decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. While appearing to be relatively straightforward, the case had something of a complex history. Kennedy had previously led voluntary prayers with...
The jury returned a not guilty verdict yesterday in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Rittenhouse was accused of murder after he took a loaded AR-15 rifle into an area of Kenosha, WI in August of...
Ibram X. Kendi’s How to be an Antiracist is part autobiography, part polemic, and part instructional book on how to eradicate racism in the United States. Kendi has a compelling story to tell. He...
One thorny issue that continually hounds us as social studies instructors is how and when to be neutral in the classroom. Balance is a word that is drummed into our heads by administrators and...
Charles Murray has released a new book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America, some 27 years after the release of his controversial work, The Bell Curve. Murray has been lauded in conservative circles (and reviled...
by Derek Regensburger · Published September 7, 2021 · Last modified September 14, 2021
How Rights Went Wrong is a new book by Columbia law professor, Jamal Greene. It is a look at how the Supreme Court has approached governmental regulation of personal rights. Greene’s central thesis is that the...
by Derek Regensburger · Published September 3, 2021 · Last modified September 7, 2021
The Supreme Court on Wednesday night refused to issue a preliminary injunction staying the new Texas abortion law, SB 8, that prohibits most abortions after the first six weeks of pregnancy where a fetal...
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