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Direct linkShireen Al-Adeimi; Jennie Baumann – Language and Education, 2025
Despite its importance for students' learning, engaging students in dialogic discussions, especially about controversial, justice-oriented topics, can be difficult for U.S. teachers to enact due to current political constraints. In this study, we explore how three middle school teachers engaged their students in curriculum-embedded discussions on…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse
Jeremiah Clabough; John H. Bickford – Social Studies, 2025
In this article, we utilize resources mainly provided by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate along with other primary and secondary sources to discuss a unit plan for students to research voting rights issues in modern American society. First, a brief historical overview of voting rights issues in the United States is…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Voting, Middle School Students, Legislators
