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Schools Return Amid Concerns About Curriculum, Safety

Story of the Week / September 8th, 2022 / By AllSides Staff

As debates about COVID-19 protocols mostly die off, questions about safety, curriculum and faculty shortages remain.

Education, Schools, Story Of The Week, Public Health, Public Safety, Teachers

Story of the Week: Students Return to Schools Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Story of the Week / September 9th, 2021 / By AllSides Staff

The return to in-person learning has been a focus of media coverage across the spectrum.

Story Of The Week, Coronavirus, Schools, Delta Variant, Education

More than Memorization: A New Civics Education Vision May Reduce Polarization

Recommended Reading / May 12th, 2021 / By Max Karlin

In the United States today, politics seems to be less about governing and more about finding the best way to demean the other side. The result: a partisan divide and an epidemic of affective polarization. Affective polarization is defined as “the extent to which citizens feel more...

United News Roundup, Polarization, Bridging Divides, Education, Schools, Civics, Culture

Meet Adam Hoffman, Key Figure Behind a Depolarizing Curriculum for 700,000 High Schoolers

Recommended Reading / February 18th, 2021 / By Jackson Lanzer

From the Center This viewpoint is from a writer rated Center. “We are all in this together” was a powerful message that I gleaned from my conversation with Adam Hoffman on the evening of January 6th, mere hours after a mob of Trump supporters stormed our nation’s capital, embodying the...

United News Roundup, Polarization, Education, Schools, Bridging Divides, Capitol Chaos

Reopening Schools During COVID-19: Democrats, Republicans Both Care About Their Children's Well-Being

Recommended Reading / November 16th, 2020 / By Rolf Hendriks

With the 2020 election process winding down, focus should increase on issues facing communities such as managing school reopening and virtual learning during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. In this time of hyper-partisanship and limitless access to information, it’s easy to find...

Coronavirus, Schools, Education, Public Health, Safety And Sanity During COVID-19, United News Roundup

Tools and Resources for Remote Learning

News / March 30th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

In these uncertain and challenging times, we are committed to helping teachers and students adapt and thrive. For educators and parents teaching remotely or from home as a result of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus , AllSides for Schools provides tools and classroom material suitable for...

Media Bias, AllSides For Schools, Schools, Education

Breaking Through Filter Bubbles with Technology and Civil Discourse: TED Talk

Recommended Reading / December 12th, 2017 / By Lucy Pinto

Photo credit: Ryan Lash / TED Technology created stronger filter bubbles, civil discourse and technology can free us This is the original script from the TED talk on breaking out of filter bubbles and bridging divides through civil discourse, given by John Gable and Joan Blades on...

AllSides, AllSides For Schools, Schools, John Gable, Joan Blades, Living Room Conversations

Give Media Literacy on this #GivingTuesday

Announcement / November 27th, 2017 / By Lucy Pinto

Donate Now! Revitalize democracy! Support media literacy and civil discourse. Democracy requires its citizens to be informed, and to have free open conversations across divides. AllSides for Schools helps students navigate the increasingly biased, misleading and confusing media landscape...

AllSides For Schools, Schools

Popping Filter Bubbles in Higher Education

News / November 10th, 2017 / By John Kesler

Editor's Note: At AllSides, we have several educational programs that expose students to different ideas because we view diversity of thought as an integral part of the educational experience. This blog post explores the pros and cons of the current higher ed system and how, overall,...

Education, Schools, News

Growing Up in School for Democracy: Fighting Media Bias from Day One

News / September 1st, 2017 / By John Kesler

Maturity is one important lens for assessing progress in developing a healthier American democracy both in terms of competent citizenship and effective leadership. This post will comment on the importance of educating students through high school with this perspective in mind, referencing...

News, Media Bias, Education, Filter Bubbles, Schools

Using Mismatch in the Classroom: A Teacher's Perspective

Recommended Reading / July 28th, 2017 / By Lucy Pinto

This Fall, AllSides for Schools will launch our newest service, Mismatch. Mismatch will be used to connect students who are different than they are across the country. They will have structured, civil conversations based around our Relationships First lesson plan. At the end of last...

School, Education, Mismatch, Schools

A Lesson in Civil Discourse from Megan Phelps-Roper

Recommended Reading / June 21st, 2017 / By Jaymee Copenhaver

I recently stumbled upon Megan Phelps-Roper’s TED Talk about her contentious exit from the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). Never one to turn down a good TED Talk, I opened it up and let it play in the background while I continued to sift through my emails. However, it didn’t take long for...

Civil Discourse, Twitter, Schools

Happy Teacher Appreciation!

Announcement / May 10th, 2017 / By Lucy Pinto

Thank you to those of you who took our schools program feedback survey (Haven't taken the survey yet? You can still take it! ). What did we learn? Well, by far the News page is the most used content in the classroom. But don't forget to check out the Dictionary or Relationships First ! We...

Schools

AllSides For Schools: Dialogs

Announcement / June 4th, 2015 / By Lucy Pinto

Schools, AllSides For Schools, Dialog

Tag: Schools