How and Why to Teach the "Hard" Election Process (Jeremy Kaplan)
Given the contentious nature of this election season and the accompanying polarization, humanities teachers could be forgiven for not wanting to teach the election process.
Yet, if we onlt teach the past, including hard pasts like slavery, then we never prepare students for the hard present which can help them to engage effectively as involved citizens in the civic sphere.
So says my guest in this episode, Jeremy Kaplan, author of several Chalkbeat articles on teaching students political processes and assistant principal of Supervision for Social Studies and Physical Education at the High School for Health Professions and Human Services in New York City.
Kaplan also was also recently featured in a New York Times article.
Talking to Students About the Trump Assassination Attempt Article (Chalkbeat)
What Teenagers Are Learning About the 2024 Election Article (New York Times)
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