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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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New NWEA Study Points to Instructional Strategies Driving Academic Growth

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.– K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA released today a new study that takes a deeper look into instructional practices driving high academic growth. NWEA’s new study followed that research to answer the next, necessary question: what can be learned from high growth schools about teaching and learning?

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New Advocacy Campaign Calls for Banning Facial Recognition on College Campuses.

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Indeed, last week saw the launch of “ Ban Facial Recognition on Campus ,” a nationwide campaign from the nonprofit advocacy organizations Fight for the Future and Students for Sensible Drug Policy. And in December, a study published by the U.S. Yet proof that these applications are effective is hard to come by.

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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans. But a specific degree program to study veterans is being launched this fall at Saint Leo University in central Florida. He said veteran studies is more about the long-term impacts of war than the logistics of arming and deploying forces.

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OPINION: After two decades of studying voucher programs, I’m now firmly opposed to them

The Hechinger Report

I am an education policy professor who has spent almost two decades studying programs like these, and trying to follow the data where it leads. But in a separate study we also saw low-income families as well as Black students returning to Milwaukee’s public schools — and doing much better. Vouchers are dangerous to American education.

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University Scholars Plant Seeds In a New Field of Study: Early Childhood Policy

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That’s what the initiative found when it commissioned research about how Black Studies, Women’s Studies and Environmental Studies proliferated in higher education. But that’s not the approach Kagan and Thornburg are taking with their effort to spread the study of early childhood policy.

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

The drop in humanities majors and a significant and simultaneous rise in the number of STEM graduates show that students have altered their understanding of what they should study to achieve success in the post-collegiate job market. Miriam Hamburger, a 2017 religious studies graduate from Occidental College, is a good example.

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