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Common-ground curriculum boosts tolerance and civic engagement in pilot study

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Polarization is deepening, and educators have worked to strengthen social cohesion by having students examine social differences—ethnicity, religion, and nationality. Now, researchers from the University of Konstanz, part of a German-American team, are proposing a different strategy based on a pilot study: center educational programs on universal human values instead.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-common-ground-curriculum-bo...

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