Educational Resources & Tech Tools 11/03/2020

• As the election draws near, civics and government teachers walk a fine line - The Washington Post

  • “In many ways, by not teaching something, you are teaching a lesson,” he said.
  • That studious neutrality is important for many teachers who don’t want to influence students or suggest they lean one way or another
  • “If we’re not able to solve problems together, which is basically what politics attempts to do, we will not be as strong a country.”
  • “Much of our country realizes that whatever the outcome of the next election, we are still going to have a very sizable portion of the population that is very angry and very polarized,” Dubé said. “We’ve forgotten how to be empathetic with each other and to try to put in practice the basic tenets of the way our democracy works. It doesn’t work like ‘my way or the highway.’ ”
  • there is widespread support among Republican and Democratic voters for bolstering civics education and making it an integral part of the curriculum for middle and high school students.

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