It's more important than ever to talk to kids about politics. Here's how to get the discussion right.

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Come this January, we will have a president who considers himself a master dealmaker. Dealmaker? It sounds absurd, given that President-elect Trump just ran the most divisive campaign in modern history and will likely govern as if he won in a landslide. That’s certainly what the advocacy group Network for Public Education thinks. “The Danger Is Now Real,” they write, and expect “a new era of federal hostility toward public schools.”

Subitizing means to instantly see how many without counting. Fostering this skill is becoming more common in schools. Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by ... not counting. That’s the contradiction at the heart of what education researchers call “subitizing,” from the Latin “subito” or suddenly, and it means to instantly see how many, much like the way we glance at a die and see four dots without counting, “one, two, three, four.” …