Superlative Social Studies Instruction
Helping Educators Teach Civic Competence and Critical Thinking
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
The President of the American Historical Association (AHA) James Sweet found himself in hot water recently for his monthly remarks. In his August column, Sweet challenged his discipline’s recent use of history to buttress...
I don’t ordinarily review books outside American history and politics, but The Betrayal of Anne Frank details such an important story that I decided to review it. Written by Rosemary Sullivan (you may have...
This past term revealed just how much the Supreme Court is swinging rightward. Whether that turn is a good thing or not is up for debate. What is intriguing is how much the Court...
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