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What's the underside of the messages wealthy, high-achieving students receive about the importance of being the best and the...
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Grode, a teacher at Hoboken Charter School in New Jersey, shows how the K-12 school, which includes many low-income students,...
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This article provides a summary of the report Engaged for Success: Service-Learning as a Tool for High School Dropout...
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This article looks back at the controversy in the 1980s and early 1990s over efforts to focus on outcomes-based education...
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This article includes concerns of K-12 principals about the culture of constant assessment, including these questions: Have...
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This article explains how classroom affective assessments enable teachers to arrive at group-focused inferences-- inferences...
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Service-learning promotes good deeds and academic achievement, but its greater potential lies in preparing students to be...
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The goal of environmental education is to create a citizenry that is knowledgeable about the biophysical environment, aware of...
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Most students think about social justice issues, whether schools encourage this focus or not, and they look to the adults in...
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At a time when the United States faces unprecedented challenges at home and abroad, public schools must do far more to prepare...
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Socially responsible citizenship has long been an important school purpose, but teachers and schools have cut back on...
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Schools are uniquely suited environments for teaching democracy. Students can learn the habit of democracy through observation...
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Elementary school teachers who want to see their young students involved in social change can take a few small steps to create...
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Many U.S. students growing up in affluent suburbs are insulated from the hunger, homelessness, poverty, and illness faced by...
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The authors describe the case study approach to teaching history developed by the group Facing History and Ourselves. In the...
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Two teachers at a San Francisco middle school became concerned about their students' apparent indifference to the homelessness...
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At School Within a School, a democratic high school in Brookline, Massachusetts, students are active participants in the...
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When the Milwaukee Public School District's social studies textbook adoption committee selected a traditional textbook series,...
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Three diverse programs have a common aim: to help students develop social responsibility by showing them the personal...
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A 5th grade teacher at Columbine Elementary School in Colorado found her class of 20 students undermining one another's sense...
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One-half of the youth population in the United States—that half with no college experience—is being left out of...
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Character education programs rarely focus on the school relationship that can be the most important in determining students'...
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This article describes reforms implemented at Hudson High School in Massachusetts that have helped to build participatory...
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Provides an overview of service-learning and shows that with strong schoolwide and community support, service-learning can...
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Community service provides students with learning experiences that may be linked with classroom learning objectives. In...