In today’s classrooms, teaching Black history has become a challenge at best—and a dangerous proposition at worst. In many states, politicians have demanded teachers alter their curriculum over fears ...
A visitor is coming to your classroom to watch you teach, and you’re worried. Maybe your teaching is being evaluated for tenure or promotion. Or maybe you have been asked to teach a class as part of a ...
On a chilly November morning here, Brie Wattier’s 8th graders at the Inspired Teaching Demonstration School had their eyes trained on the slides projected at the front of the class. “What are the good ...
One in 10 students says their professors generally choose homogeneous instructional materials that do not reflect diverse perspectives, according to a recent Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed ...
Leza, 42, has long dreamed of becoming a professional DJ — he likes the technical aspect of it — and during those Friday classes he gets to transform from his usual role as a student at the ...
The great German Field Marshal Helmut von Moltke the Elder famously observed no plan survives contact with the enemy. Von Moltke’s point was that humans get a vote. What works for soldiers in one ...
The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the “Make America Great Again” slogan as an example of white supremacy. By ...
Last week, Paul Crenshaw got a phone call that faculty everywhere have nightmares about. “‘Where were you?’” asked the voice on the other end. It was an official from a college in Kansas. Crenshaw ...
For the past two years, at Dartmouth College, I have been co-teaching a course called The Politics of Israel and Palestine with Ezzedine Fishere, a former Egyptian diplomat who served under the United ...
An Arizona teacher's assistant revealed that he was suddenly fired after pushing back against the school administration's request for him to teach a class that he was not qualified to be teaching. In ...