Culture

Column: In Rio, students tackle social issues like Olympians

2016-08-05

Editor’s note: The opening ceremonies of the 2016 Summer Olympics start Friday amid headlines focused on Rio’s infrastructure problems, political turmoil and Zika virus worries. But members of the int

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Column: College planning now may mean less stress for seniors come fall

2016-07-05

Editor’s Note: As summer gets underway, rising seniors may want to think about getting a jump start on college planning. School counselors like Shondra Carpenter say for students interested in going t

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Column: In the face of anti-LGBTQ rights laws, my students give me hope

2016-06-09

Editor’s Note: Soon after North Carolina’s governor signed into law HB2, the so-called “bathroom bill,” which requires transgender people to use the public bathroom that matches the sex on their birth

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Column: How I answer my students’ tough questions about military service

2016-05-29

Editor’s Note: Memorial Day, a federal holiday, honors soldiers who died while serving in the U.S. military. Educator Darrell Jones, who became a teacher after retiring from 20 years of service in the

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Column: How one military veteran teaches his students about Memorial Day

2016-05-27

Memorial Day is a federal holiday that honors the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. After graduating from West Point in 2002 and serving more than five years on active duty as

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Column: Students are addicted to their cellphones, and they need our help

2016-05-13

Editor’s Note: Growing concerns over the ways cellphone use affects teenagers has prompted in-depth study by neuroscientists like Dr. Frances Jensen, who wrote “The Teenage Brain,” and a new documenta

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Column: How I teach about the Holocaust as living memory fades

2016-05-05

Editor’s Note: Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day or Yom HaShoah in memory of the 6 million Jews killed during World War II. Many schools teach about the Holocaust by recounting the stories of survivo

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Column: This little known site is the birthplace of the student civil rights movement

2016-04-29

Editor’s Note: The location of what is considered “the student birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement” may surprise some people. Robert Russa Moton Museum, or just Moton, is located in a small town i

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Many of my students see NC’s bathroom bill as ‘state-sanctioned bullying’

2016-04-21

Editor’s Note: Last month, North Carolina’s lawmakers passed House Bill 2 which requires people to use the public bathroom that matches the gender on their birth certificate. On Tuesday, the 4th U.S.

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Teachers’ Lounge: Teaching politics in the age of Trump

2016-04-15

Editor’s Note: Presidential elections give teachers a chance to engage students in lessons about the electoral process and what it means to be part of a democracy. But some of the behavior exhibited d

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How ‘Hamilton’ helps me teach about xenophobia and immigration

2016-04-08

Editor’s Note: “Hamilton” has recently swept Broadway ticket sales, taken over the White House for a day and ushered in a new discussion about the intersection of theater, race and history. But it’s a

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How I use comic books as a learning tool in my social studies classroom

2016-03-29

Editor’s Note: Comic books have a long history of tackling social issues. In recent years, criticism has centered on the characters themselves; some readers blamed publishers for creating diverse char

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