American Federation of Teachers New Jersey, AFL-CIO

In our everyday lives, people “are surrounded by curated content,” writes former social studies and ELA teacher Noah Dougherty. However, he adds, “the expectation that content could (or should) be relevant to every student often ends at the classroom door.”

“The good news is that relevant content, particularly for middle and high school students, is more readily available,” writes Dougherty, the CEO and co-founder of Relevant Learner.…

U.S. schools “are failing to teach a sufficiently complex and comprehensive history of Reconstruction,” write the three authors of a recent report produced by the nonprofit Zinn Education Project.

Ana Rosado, Gideon Cohn-Postar and Mimi Eisen came to their findings through analysis of such criteria as state standards, course requirements and district-level social studies curricula from 2019-21, while also surveying elementary, middle school and high school teachers across the country.…

As the American workforce undergoes what’s been dubbed The Great Resignation and The Big Quit, author and former educator Simon Rodberg says a Great Renegotiation is needed in the teaching profession to help prevent a tidal wave of teacher turnover.

“We need a system where we can treat teachers and other school staff like adult professionals who can, at least one day a week, manage their own lives and time,” Rodberg writes for EdSurge.…