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Classroom Cold War: When Students Were Trained to "Duck and Cover"

Just 1.8 seconds. That's how long it took for students of teacher Lillian McDonald's second and third grade classes to obey McDonald's single command ("cover") during a drill at Phelps School in ...
War on the Rocks

There Is More War in the Classroom Than You Think

History is dying on college campuses. At least, that’s the assessment of some leading historians. Majors are plummeting and students are leaving college without a firm grasp of the foundations of the ...
CNN

Opinion: SEL doesn’t have to be a classroom culture war

Editor’s Note: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela (@nataliapetrzela) is an associate professor of history at The New School and the author of the book “Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern ...