Vivian Bradford’s book, Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education includes a nuanced discussion about how colleges and universities have been the target of misinformation in recent years. Chapters focus on such key concepts such as trigger …Continue Reading
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Featured Resource: Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers
Publisher statement, “A first of its kind, the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers addresses key issues and obstacles to ethnoracial diversity across the life course of teachers’ careers, such as recruitment and retention, professional development, and the …Continue Reading
Teens Know Climate Change is Real. They Want Schools to Teach More About It
This article highlights a new nationwide survey of teenagers by Education Week researchers. It reveals an education system out of step with the interest of many students on the issue–that students would like to learn more about climate change, their future and …Continue Reading
Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education
The Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education, edited by Kamden Strunk and Stephanie Anne Shelton, focuses on education and education research as it relates to queer studies. chapters include such topics as AIDs activism, Androgyny, Antidiscrimination Laws and Policies, Bisexuality, Campus Climate …Continue Reading
Children’s Books that Feature Characters with Disabilities
Children’s Books that Feature Characters with Disabilities offers a book list of titles that include main characters or secondary characters with a disability. Some of these titles are part of the USF Libraries holdings– Emmanuel’s Dream, Just Ask: Be Different, Be Brave, …Continue Reading
Open is Not Forever: A Study of Vanished Open Access Journals
Many reputable journals are costly and behind paywalls because, unlike some poor quality open access journals, one is paying for copy editing, indexing, and preservation. When you publish with a quality journal, you have a reasonable expectation that your article will be …Continue Reading
What “Reading Laterally” Means for Teaching Students Digital Literacy
Image credit How do we get students to evaluate what they find on the open Web? One technique is to teach them how to fact-check sources and read “laterally” across many sites instead of trying to verify the authority of just one …Continue Reading
Why Students Have Trouble with Reading Citations and Citing Info Sources
In his article, “When Everything is a Website,” author William Badke explains that to many generation Z students who have little or no history with print, “the meaning behind the traditional distinctions that defined various types of academic literature is vanishing” (p. …Continue Reading
Featured E-Book: The Importance of Philosophy in Teacher Education
The importance of philosophy in teacher education : mapping the decline and its consequences edited by Andrew D. Colgan and Bruce Maxwell, discusses the gradual decline as a major part of educational studies. Chapters address how this decline has impacted teacher education …Continue Reading