ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2023

The civil rights folks liked the idea that legacy preferences were there to the extent that they could make an argument that, ‘Listen, there are all sorts of preferences in college admissions,’ and so race should be allowed as one of those factors.” But even that financial argument is not well-founded, argues Kahlenberg.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

He even takes the argument a step further when he complains that Twitter itself has become a kind of game for talking about current events and politics, rather than a genuine public sphere.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

These artificial assistants, the argument goes, will be able to automate tasks, freeing up teacher time for interacting with students, while also providing instant feedback for students like a tireless (free-to-use) tutor. In this case, it is also to mollify concerns that AI will lead to less autonomy and less respect for teachers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

Over the years, our country has strived to provide a national standard for the quality of education in public schools and multiple administrations have promoted federal initiatives and national goals to define academic outcomes for American students. This is a dilemma. I haven’t seen one of them incorporate self-love as a prioritized outcome.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

How did public opinion evolve? Throughout this lesson, my students not only learn the content but also develop critical thinking skills as they analyze evidence, put together persuasive arguments and respectfully debate their peers. Torpedoed in May 1915, it caused almost 1,200 civilian casualties but the U.S.

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

So for this week’s podcast we’re diving into his argument, talking to a philosophy professor who studied with Hussain and regularly teaches the paper to his own students. It seems like there's a lot of common sense to this argument that is very accessible to a non-philosopher. And they might both end up winning, then?

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s the argument made by Timothy Law Snyder, president of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who has been writing and speaking about the issue in recent months.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

There’s a unique opportunity to identify the dangerous side of the “fake it until you make it” argument, as Theranos not only wasted millions of dollars, but put some patients’ health in jeopardy. Unsurprisingly, the highly-publicized plan to deploy Knewton’s technology in service of incarcerated youth never happened.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 5, 2015

Very effective: Argument Wars. Public Policy and the Executive and Legislative Branches Quiz. Public Policy Flashcards. Public Policy Matching. These are mostly for MS, a mixture of flashcards, games and simulations. Branches of Power. Civics Game Room. Civics games. Congress for Kids. Court Quest. Elections—the Game.

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Argumentation Government Publication Curriculum 234

ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2023

Formulaic writing, especially tasks completed within the span of a class period, robs students of the opportunities to consider their audience and think strategically about their argument and voice. Like many teachers who grappled with ChatGPT, my initial concerns were that these moments would become another casualty of AI.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Based on data from the 2018-19 school year, there are approximately 200,000 public school teachers in New York state. Quite frankly, this argument relies on decontextualized data to assess student performance. Teachers could, and should, be included in these types of decisions in dialogue with lawmakers and school stakeholders.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 23, 2020

In civics, students learn to contribute appropriately to public processes and discussions of real issues. Their contributions to public discussions may take many forms, ranging from personal testimony to abstract arguments.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I speak and consult nationally on public education, youth development and child well-being, and since March 2020, I have integrated real-time polling into my speaking events, asking thousands of teachers, counselors and administrators about the well-being of their students, families and school communities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2017

The Socratic Method requires cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, asking and answering questions that stimulate critical thinking and draw out underlying presumptions. The goal has nothing to do with who wins the argument but how evidence and ideas are presented. — image credit: Fresno Public Schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2017

They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. public speaking. As they work, students “…construct viable arguments and critique reasoning of others…” More specifically (Common Core Appendix C): introduce claim. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. Students these days are terrible at sorting true facts from misinformation online and on social media, many studies show. And of course, this is disastrous on the internet.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. My argument is that the risk is too high, and the returns too low. There are two key weaknesses to our argument. In most cases, a university degree takes three to four years of study.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2016

They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. public speaking. As they work, students “…construct viable arguments and critique reasoning of others…” More specifically (Common Core Appendix C): introduce claim. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Topics covered include citizenship, governance, civil rights, the constitution, politics and public policy, state and local governments, media, news literacy, and many more. Students will learn about the tactics, arguments, key people, and historical events that led to women gaining the vote and they’ll have fun doing it'.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

That’s the argument made by scholar and author Freddie deBoer in his book, “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.” That’s the argument made by scholar and author Freddie deBoer in his book, “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.”

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2022

It sounds like the main argument against the bill was that each district should decide the issue of start times rather than have a statewide mandate, right? The other key piece is that this is a public health issue. So when you talk about other public health issues like asbestos or lead paint, those are not left to local discretion.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Another common argument is that homework helps students develop skills related to problem-solving, time-management and self-direction. While it’s likely that homework completion signals student engagement, which in turn leads to academic achievement, there’s little evidence to suggest that homework itself improves engagement in learning.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This is a nexus—kids and climate—where research is becoming more and more robust, yet public awareness and understanding lag far behind. One example that's stuck with me is the Pacific Northwest “ heat dome ” last year, when the public pools had to close because the ground around it was unsafe to walk on. That's my argument.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Differential treatment is an example of how economic theories can shape public policies and individual’s opportunities. As you can imagine, there are many arguments both for and against these ideas. How does Emil study the efficiency of differential treatment?

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User Generated Education

MAY 6, 2018

As the debate team filled Google docs with research on state laws, brainstormed arguments for and against universal background checks and wrote speeches, they were amassing information that would later help them formulate arguments on national TV, in face-to-face meetings with Florida legislators and at vigils for their murdered classmates.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

SEL and “critical race theory”—a little-understood academic concept that conservatives have capitalized on to stoke fear among parents—have been willfully conflated in recent public discourse by disingenuous, politically motivated agitators , causing hysteria. Like Henny, we must now evaluate the facts around SEL.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2018

explained Mike Nelson, the Director of Curricula and Assessments in the Coeur d’Alene Public School District, “but at the same time, we knew a few key changes would be of benefit to all.” As the 2017-18 school year began for Coeur d’Alene Public Schools, the district-wide changes were felt by students and teachers alike.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 16, 2016

This is a great visual way to act out experiences, teach lessons, share how-tos, make public service announcements, and tell a story from different points of view. It can be used not only for fiction, but narrative, argumentative, and expository writing exercises. Free for educators; web and mobile app. VoiceThread. Fee; web or iOS.

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Jacobs Physics

JULY 8, 2021

To allow students to make tendentious arguments about judgement calls, especially in front of their classmates, destroys culture and drains your spirit. Other students who might have been preparing with their own defense attorneys will see the lack of success from the first student, and so give up the argument. No need to remind them.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 12, 2021

The former is important because the economic argument for computing education in schools is the most salient in the United States. Caspersen’s arguments for the Danish Informatics curriculum build on quotes from Henry Kissinger and Peter Naur, but could also build on the work of C.P. These are critically important.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 4, 2013

But in those cases “go to hell” was just a way to break the tension, to end an argument that was going nowhere. The words were spoken by my nine-year-old son, Scott, in the principal’s office of the public elementary school. This time it was serious. This time I felt, maybe, I really would go to hell.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Instead of just being the backdrop from which data are collected, strengthening or capitalising on the relationships between people and the places where they might engage in citizen science can play a central role in increasing interest in public research participation. How exactly can programmes do this?

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 29, 2022

What about the fact that casual publication doesn't count for much professionally? There are some arguments that aren't data-based but seem logical; for example one of my colleagues points to the difficulty of budgeting attention properly in an online setting as an argument for in-person classes.

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The Maker Mom

MARCH 18, 2023

Around 90% of K-12 public school teachers assert that digital learning tools are the best option when doing research or gathering data. The most sought-after professional degrees can now be effectively gained through online education. Recent federal commitments to infrastructure seek to close this gap, but these changes take years.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Thiel was trying to change the public conversation about higher education, and at the time, 13 years ago, even practices like gap years were pretty uncommon. So we’ve been wondering: What happened to the public belief in college? And he argues that there’s a danger in Thiel’s argument. “I Millions of students in the U.S.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I strongly believe that the world needs engineers with strong critical thinking skills, who know how to ask questions, understand bias, construct and evaluate arguments, and think comprehensively and creatively. This paves the way for its use among the general public in the near future. This goes hand in hand with ethical thinking.

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Futurum

APRIL 18, 2023

I had great arguments about mathematical proofs with my amazing grade school maths teachers and was a regular at Boston’s science museum. In the future, I would like to branch out from the technical communication of science in peer-reviewed journals and try my hand at writing accessibly about MS&E for the broader public.

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