Stories

Civics

Rebooting Civics for the Digital Age

Today’s teenagers can produce a viral video in 60 seconds, yet many struggle to name the three branches of government. That failure is less an indictment of them than of us. We’ve treated civics as...

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Teaching

What “Frozen II” Gets Right About Indigenous Representation—and What Schools Still Get Wrong

As I sat with my 7-year-old daughter and her friends in a movie theater for a showing of "Frozen II," I was fascinated. No, it wasn’t with the autumn scenery, or Olaf’s comedic retelling of the first...

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Teaching

We Can Tell the Truth About Thanksgiving to Our Preschoolers, Too

Since urging my preschool to eliminate Columbus Day from the school calendar, I continuously contemplate how to teach about Native Americans, and especially Thanksgiving, in the most developmentally...

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Teaching

Teachers, Any Lesson About Thanksgiving Should Include Native American Perspectives

It is that time of year again. It is time for some teachers somewhere to completely botch incorporating Thanksgiving and Native Americans into the curriculum. However, this does not need to occur....

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Teaching

Stop Spreading Lies About Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is upon us—in the air, in the trees, in the longer nights, and anticipation of a long weekend. But also in the grocery stores and in our schools. Thanksgiving has been distilled into a...

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U.S. Department of Education

The Government Just Told Educators They’re Not “Real” Professionals

I wanted to bring this to your attention because, with everything happening in the world right now, changes like this can easily slip past people. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the Department of...

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