How to Avoid Showing Bias When Talking About Current Events
Most of us have biases, even if we don’t know it. How can we talk about current events to children and students without letting our biases shape their beliefs?
Most of us have biases, even if we don’t know it. How can we talk about current events to children and students without letting our biases shape their beliefs?
There’s no question that our students and children have questions about sensitive topics and issues going on in our world. Here’s our tips for having constructive conversations about them.
We conducted a poll of Middle and High School teachers asking them if they used current events in the classroom, when they used them, and why. Here is what we learned.
….And what we should hold on to in the next evolution of education.
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President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign a
An executive order is a written directive from the president carrying powers similar to a federal law. Presidents have historically used these orders to push policies forward quickly because they do not require approval from Congress. The downside of executive orders is that they are easily overturned by any new president. That is not true for federal laws.
Among other moves overturning Trump administration policies, Biden’s orders will return the US to the Paris Climate
Related to the pandemic, Biden will require face masks on federal properties and during interstate travel. Other orders will be aimed at safely reopening schools and businesses.
On immigration, Biden will order agencies to determine how to reunite children separated from their families after crossing the US-Mexico border. Another order will end travel restrictions targeting majority-Muslim countries.
Other orders will address “
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