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Why homework became a substitute for bad teaching

Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along the line, teachers stopped teaching full lessons in class and started ...
Class-sourcing, my adaptation of the term “crowdsourcing,” is a teaching strategy that can help us reach our students, serve our discipline, profession, and the broader public, while staying relevant ...
The new question-of-the-week is: What are good ways to have students learn about—and use—primary sources? Primary sources can be great tools to inspire students to engage with history. They can also ...