We have all witnessed the turmoil that can occur in the comments sections of our social media platforms. Close-minded remarks, hurtful rhetoric and disgraceful carnage happen between strangers, ...

How to Defuse a Classroom Conflict: Make It More Complex Five practices to help students break through all the binary thinking.

Students who participate in well-planned discussions about controversial issues at school are better prepared for civic participation than those who stay unchallenged within echo chambers.

Today’s debates (in politics and the classroom) tend to stagnate because they turn into a clash of opinions. The nature of an opinion is that it makes a judgment, but often we jump into these ...

In the first of a scheduled series of debates, Ward Churchill and David Horowitz debated "Can Politics Be Taken out of the Classroom, and Should It Be?" Among the topics they addressed were ...

To assess the effect of debate format on learning, four formats were separately employed in an environmental issues course. Learning was greatest when students wrote about a debate they witnessed, the ...

How to Play in the College Classroom in a Pandemic, and Why You Should Seven ways to lighten things up in class that are emotionally, academically, and pedagogically sound.

The political debate over the #RedforED movement is far from over, as it now turns to acceptable political speech in the classroom. FOX 10's Matt Rodewald reports.

Should schools ban cell phones in the classroom? Phones can be a major distraction, used for cyberbullying, and a tool for cheating, they are also a lifesaving tool in an emergency. How parents ...