Over the last two decades, ideological polarization has become a prominent threat to democracy, education, and society as a whole. According to the Pew Research Center, partisan antipathy has been steadily increasing since the mid-1990s, with self-identified liberals and conservatives becoming more sharply divided in their beliefs - and more likely to see the other “side” as a significant ...
In recent years, critical thinking has replaced rote learning as the priority skill in most classrooms; gone are the days when simply regurgitating information regarding historical facts and figures, geography, times tables, etc., was sufficient to be deemed an exemplary student. Instead, today's students are valued as much—or more—for their ability to engage in rational analysis of the ...
Anxiety disorders are found in children much more often than many people realize; ten to twenty percent of all children ...
Autism has been in the spotlight for many years. In movies, television, and novels, autistic characters are portrayed to have ...
Sometimes classroom behavior problems signal giftedness. Brad and Karen were at their wits end. Their grade school children once again ...
