Why students copy-paste in writing tasks but think critically in debates—and what this reveals about educational design.

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.

Senate Bill 1 could potentially make discussions in class more restrictive and limit creative thinking, which is the very ...

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 ...

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.

As the 2016 presidential campaign kicks into gear, teachers have to consider whether and how to introduce politics in the classroom.

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 ...

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.

The "political classroom" is a classroom in which young people are learning to deliberate about political questions. It really is the process of deliberation that is the major skill being taught.