SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Teachers, librarians, and educational administrators at more than 4,000 schools – 806 elementary and middle schools, 2,063 high schools, and 1,055 colleges and universities – in all 50 states and 57 countries have now used ProCon.org.
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The ProCon.org Teachers' Corner provides the lesson plans, resource lists, and experiences from those educators in a searchable format by country, state, grade level, or subject.
Of the 4,004 schools where educators use ProCon.org as of July 22, 2013, 10.78% of them, 432 schools, are in California - the highest percentage from any one state.
Educators using ProCon.org at the elementary and middle school level span the alphabet from Abbott Middle School in San Mateo, CA to Woodward Middle School on Bainbridge Island in Washington. High schools using ProCon.org range from AC Jones High School in Beesville, Texas to Zuni High School in Zuni, New Mexico. Universities whose instructors and librarians reference ProCon.org include Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and more than 1,000 others.
"We are thrilled to surpass the 4,000 schools milestone," said ProCon.org President & Managing Editor, Kamy Akhavan. "More and more educators realize that teaching critical thinking and producing informed citizens works better when using our free and nonpartisan resources."
Other educators agree, including California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, former Iowa Department of Education Director Jason Glass, former President of the National Council of Teachers of English Carol Jago, former President of the American Association of School Librarians Harriet Selverstone, and so many more.
For additional information about nonpartisan research materials for educators, visit the ProCon.org "Teachers' Corner" which provides studies, articles, lesson plan ideas, national standards, and other teacher resources related to the impact of critical thinking.
For information about ProCon.org, visit www.procon.org.
About Us
ProCon.org (online at www.procon.org) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity whose mission is promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship. Information is presented on 47 different ProCon.org issue websites in subjects ranging from standardized testing, alternative energy, and medical marijuana to the death penalty, illegal immigration, and gay marriage.
ProCon.org websites are free of charge and require no registration. The websites have been referenced by over 800 media entities, cited 36 times by the governments of 11 countries (including 27 US states and nine US federal agencies), and used by teachers, librarians, and educators in over 4,000 schools in 57 countries and all 50 US states.
ProCon.org had over 15.7 million unique readers in 2012 and more than 2 billion hits since its inception in 2004.
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Contact: Kambiz Akhavan, 310-587-1407, [email protected]
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