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We should all be given time off work at age 40 to take a class on elder care.” I was preparing for a lecture in the science curriculum at a local high school when I read Rauch’s article.
Why do we teach history? Behind the curriculum debates lurks a deeper question about what it means to form citizens. From the Editors in the November 17, 2021 issue. Share Share on Twitter Share on ...
We teach students "old physics" first for a number of valid reasons, the most important being that it works. Multiple images of The Pip going down a slide, composite from video using the Motion ...
Why Do We Teach Poetry? Poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1932 and 1953 and of the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1953, ...
Brain Matters Why do we play? Rats can teach us how it improves mental health. A study revealed activity in a brain region in rats as they played; it may help to develop therapies for children who ...
How many remember what a polynomial function is? Some of my friends have asked me, quite honestly and bluntly, why do we teach algebra in school? “I’ve never used algebra ...
ORLANDO, Fla. – This month, News 6 is celebrating our local educators and we’ve interviewed teachers across Central Florida, asking them “Why do you teach?” For Lake Nona High School ...
Perhaps that’s why we don’t want to teach better historical lessons of the Holocaust. The more complex and rigorous the study, the harder it is to congratulate ourselves.
If tens of thousands of people can organise a mass movement and confront the state then why do we need a revolutionary party?
Why Don’t We Teach People How to Parent? The ways that Americans used to learn child-rearing are falling apart. The new ones aren’t filling the gaps left behind.