A Penn State training program helps K-12 teachers learn how to give students the confidence to ask questions and understand various perspectives about complex topics.
- Associate Professor of Journalism, Penn State
46 states have enacted a law that aims to reduce sexual offenders’ ability to re-offend, but the results have been mixed.
A new documentary highlights teaching techniques of an educator who went the extra mile for her students.
Israel’s war with Hamas is unlike anything Israelis have seen before in some important ways, writes an Israeli filmmaker. But in other ways, it is reminiscent of the distant and not so long ago past.
Scholars examine how state laws that restrict lessons on race could affect students and educators.
The constitutionality of the recent wave of proposed book bans is unclear, as the US Supreme Court has given states wide latitude to regulate what is read in public schools and libraries.
There have been numerous efforts to limit students’ access to books and curricula about certain historical and societal topics. But history itself shows democracy suffers when people are uninformed.
President Joe Biden recently spoke out in support of the ongoing protests in Israel, raising some observers’ eyebrows about the ties between Israel and the US.
Bernie Sanders was an easy target for Trump’s criticism on Israel. Joe Biden’s emergence as the frontrunner may make U.S.-Israeli relations less of a campaign dispute.
Sending specially trained operatives into hostile territories dates back to Colonial days. In the past decade, special operations forces have become central to America’s counterterrorism efforts.
A group of American airmen broke US laws and evaded the FBI to support the nascent country of Israel in 1948. We should consider them heroes. Jonathan Pollard – not so much.
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