{"id":211982,"date":"2026-05-11T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/what-makes-a-good-teacher-ask-a-republican-and-a-democrat-and-they-are-likely-to-agree\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:00:09","slug":"what-makes-a-good-teacher-ask-a-republican-and-a-democrat-and-they-are-likely-to-agree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/what-makes-a-good-teacher-ask-a-republican-and-a-democrat-and-they-are-likely-to-agree\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good teacher? Ask a Republican and a Democrat, and they are likely to agree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-makes-a-good-teacher-ask-a-republican-and-a-democrat-and-they-are-likely-to-agree-282130\">What makes a good teacher? Ask a Republican and a Democrat, and they are likely to agree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-makes-a-good-teacher-ask-a-republican-and-a-democrat-and-they-are-likely-to-agree-282130\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-makes-a-good-teacher-ask-a-republican-and-a-democrat-and-they-are-likely-to-agree-282130<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-11 08:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conservative parents and advocacy groups are lobbying to remove books highlighting LGBTQ+ issues or race and racism from school libraries, sparking opposition from civil liberties groups and progressive parents who see this as censorship.<\/li>\n<li>Beyond the political polarization seen in education debates, there is bipartisan agreement on the qualities that make a very good teacher, regardless of age, race, gender, or political affiliation.<\/li>\n<li>A study from 2020 surveyed over 2,000 Americans and found that people consistently prioritized teachers who cared about students, made lessons relevant, and offered individualized support.<\/li>\n<li>In 2022, a similar survey of teachers in Arizona and California echoed these findings, highlighting the importance of relationships and relevance in teaching.<\/li>\n<li>An experiment conducted in late 2024\/early 2025 showed that while people agreed on what makes a good teacher, they became less supportive of this view when associated with a political party they didn\u2019t affiliate with, indicating affective polarization. <\/li>\n<li>Federal education policies often emphasize testing and competition which might not align with the shared belief of what good teaching entails.<\/li>\n<li>Recognizing these individual-level agreements could open new avenues for educational collaboration and reform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a good teacher? Ask a Republican and a Democrat, and they are likely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/734811\/original\/file-20260508-77-q2derj.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C485%2C5000%2C2500&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211984,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211982\/revisions\/211984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}