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The Kid Whisperer: How to teach a kid to not use hurtful words

Dear Kid Whisperer, I’m a sixth-grade teacher. My teaching partner has a student who has always been hard, these last couple ...
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Parents upset after Graham Middle students given 'bad words' assignment by teacher

GRAHAM, N.C. — Curse words, vulgar language, and even a racial slur on a middle school homework assignment have some parents upset. According to the Alamance-Burlington School System, an 8th-grade ...
WGHP

Class assignment on ‘etymology of swear words’ prompts apology from Alamance-Burlington School System

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GRAHAM, N.C. (WGHP) — The ...
Brandeis University

Course and Assignment Design

Effective course design begins with understanding the process of thinking and learning. These processes are commonly termed "metacognition." Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one’s ...
Education Week

Response: Vocabulary Instruction Is More Than Giving ‘A List of Words’

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? We started-off in Part One with suggestions from Katie Brown, Jane Fung, Marilee Sprenger and Karen ...
komonews

First graders given gender identity worksheet, told people can be neither or both genders

WASHINGTON (TND) — A school district in Washington state is facing backlash for an online handout given to elementary school students teaching them about gender identity, including the idea that ...
The Washington Post

Writing instruction in our schools is terrible. We need to fix it.

Several years ago, I stopped reading the reports I frequently receive on “the future of education research” from many fine universities. Most education research has little or no relationship to ...