Culture

Teaching kids about Thanksgiving or Columbus? They deserve the real story

2017-11-15

In the season four premiere of ABC’s hit sitcom “Black-ish,” Dre, a charismatic dad played by Anthony Anderson, is distraught over his children’s performance in a school play about Christopher Columbu

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Column: Why educators still need to talk about 9/11 — and Islamophobia

2017-09-11

Editor’s note: We’re resurfacing this column from educator Rusul Alrubail this week for the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks. I was in 10th grade living in Toronto when 9/11 happened. We wer

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Column: Why we shouldn’t push students to specialize in STEM too early

2017-09-05

This fall, as I have for nearly 29 years as an educator and academic advisor, I’ll face freshmen engineering students who are certain of what they’re going to do with the rest of their lives. Then the

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Column: How I use George Washington to make kids care about ‘fake news’

2017-07-25

Amid the surge of fake news, I am more serious than ever about my role as a history and journalism teacher to foster students’ media literacy. By fake news, I don’t mean stories a reader objects to be

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Column: How bringing comics into the classroom made me love teaching again

2017-05-08

Most teachers would agree that teaching is one of the most exhausting jobs to love. Between meeting the individual needs of our students, keeping up with the latest initiatives and completing the day-

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Column: Why geography matters for students now more than ever

2017-05-03

Editor’s note: As teens scroll through their news feeds, catching glimpses of conflict and atrocities taking place in Syria, South Sudan, or even violence here in America, what are they learning about

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Column: I’m a teacher, a ‘Dreamer’ and I know why my students are scared

2017-04-25

Editor’s Note: Throughout the 2016 presidential election, President Donald Trump vowed to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program created under the Obama Administration. DACA pro

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Column: Teaching students to appreciate a world of religions and resist intolerance

2017-04-20

Editor’s note: Most public school districts in the U.S. require students to learn about world religions, a fact many Americans don’t know. According to a 2010 survey from Pew Research Center on the pu

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Column: By saddling students with debt, we’re depriving them of self-reliance

2017-03-15

Editor’s Note: In 2015, about 40 million people had student debt, up from 29 million in 2008. While the majority of borrowers owe about $25,000, people who owe less than $10,000 are the most likely to

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Column: How to help students discover the whole truth

2017-02-23

Editor’s note: Educators across the country have had to confront the rise in influence of “fake news” or online news hoaxes, particularly in the wake of the election when the phrase became a buzz word

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Column: How I learned my own value as a black male teacher

2017-02-09

Editor’s Note: Black males represent roughly 2 percent of all public school teachers in the U.S. While nonwhite educators are being hired at a higher proportional rate than white teachers, they’re als

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Column: Most teens can’t tell fake from real news

2016-12-13

Editor’s Note: The negative effects of so-called fake news were felt in the 2016 presidential election and a subsequent dangerous situation at a Washington, D.C. pizzeria, highlighting the need for ne

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