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19 décembre 2015

Schools need to do more to improve children’s religious literacy

By Tariq Modood. British society is in serious need of higher levels of religious literacy. The potential for misunderstanding, stereotyping and oversimplification based on ignorance is huge – and schools have a big part to play in putting this right. More...

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19 décembre 2015

When families move, high school students may suffer

By Constance Lindsay and Courtney Anderson. Residential mobility is a hallmark of modern American society. Policies encourage mobility as a way of improving outcomes for low-income families residing in poor neighborhoods. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Focus on college affordability obscures real problem: we’re overeducated

By Nader Habibi. Since the cost of going to college is an important concern for a large segment of voters, the 2016 presidential candidates are all advocating policies aimed at making a college education more affordable. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Here’s why academics should write for the public

By Jonathan Wai and David Miller. In a widely read article in The Chronicle of Higher Education last year, Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at Harvard and author of several acclaimed books including The Sense of Style, analyzed why academic writing is “turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read, and impossible to understand.” More...

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19 décembre 2015

The world is more educated than it’s ever been – how?

By Alan Britton. More people are going to school and university than ever before. That’s the largely positive picture of the state of education across the world published recently by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). More...

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19 décembre 2015

Why Thanksgiving tells a story of America’s pluralism

By Matthew Dennis. Thanksgiving has been a focus of autumn grade-school curriculum for a hundred years.
Because of its paradoxical combination of tradition and invention, its appeals to the past and to the future, its ancestor worship and its acceptance of diversity, Thanksgiving remains America’s most treasured celebration. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Where are the voices of indigenous peoples in the Thanksgiving story?

By Sarah B Shear. Thanksgiving is an important time, when schools teach the story of who we are and where we come from as a nation.
My own students have told me about the Thanksgiving story they learned in school, which focused solely on the survival of the Pilgrims and the friendly meal shared with “Indians.” More...

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19 décembre 2015

Explainer: why transgender students need “safe” bathrooms

By Alison Gash. Bathroom safety has become the next battle for transgender students on college campuses across the nation.
Often referred to as “bathroom desegregation,” calls for safer bathrooms have inspired “shit-ins” at California Polytechnic and San Diego State, where transgender advocates asked student allies to use only gender-neutral restrooms. More...

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19 décembre 2015

How teachers in France are talking to their students about the Paris attacks

By Dominique Macaire. Schools opened across France during three days of national mourning for the victims of the Paris attacks. This left many teachers to face the question: how best to talk about what had happened with students? Several teachers from a variety of levels and disciplines shared their thoughts with me. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Unsurprised by Missouri – scholars on the roots of racial unrest on campus

By Kalpana Jain. On Monday afternoon, after days of protests against his failure to address urgent concerns over racism on campus, the University of Missouri’s President Tim Wolfe resigned.
This may have alleviated the immediate tension in Columbia, Missouri, but the wider debate over race relations on campuses is now spreading across the country. More...

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