The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

I landed two on-campus jobs — one as a mentor to new Fatherhood recruits, and one as a Civic Fellow working with the college’s government relations manager. One of the last things she told me before cancer took her in 2012 was not to leave school. If I hadn’t found these resources at LaGuardia, I doubt I’d be where I am today.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Gallot graduated from Grambling in 1987 and leveraged his HBCU degrees (Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990) to become a state representative for the area in 2000 and state senator in 2012 before being installed as the tenth president of GSU in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Related: Making America whole again via civics education. Salgado fue contratada por el Sistema de Escuelas Públicas de Chicago en el 2012 para supervisar los “Comités de Voces Estudiantiles” creados por el distrito. Eso ocurre en Takoma Park, una ciudad de 18,000 habitantes en Maryland cerca Washington DC.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

2 percent of all the venture deals in a five-year period starting in 2012. Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students. Another analysis by digital divide expert Kathryn Finney found that black women-led start-ups comprised less than .2

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

In 2012-13, black students accounted for more than 90 percent of enrollment at over a quarter of the schools in Mississippi, according to federal and state school district data compiled by Jake McGraw, public policy coordinator at the Mississippi-based William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and editor of the blog Rethink Mississippi.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 4, 2024

Prior to joining the University of Maryland in 2012, she was at the University of Southern California in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She is author of Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890-1930 (1989/1997), The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission (2006), and Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal in New York (2018). Bernard will discuss exhibitions and memorials about slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example, in 2017 in Buenaventura, Colombia, activists and everyday residents held a three-week civic strike to call attention to and demand public investment in civilian lives. Following years of cross-coalitional planning, residents shut down the port and the city and took to the streets to demand recognition.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

The 2016 election and the tumultuous start to Donald Trump’s presidency, which hits the 100-day mark next week, have presented civics teachers in red, blue and purple states alike with a double-edged sword. For project-based civic learning, there’s the web-based “Civic Action Project” (CAP) created by the Constitutional Rights Foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Also included were programs that addressed ethical and civic values. Journalist Paul Tough popularized the ideas for social-emotional learning in his 2012 best seller, “How Children Succeed,” and the programs spread nationally. Some programs focused narrowly on discrete skills such as mindfulness or emotional intelligence.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

and Jessica Hockett found in 2012. “Many Asian students are children of restaurant, hotel, home care and nail salon workers, and their families struggle with access to education,” Carolyn Chou, a steering committee member of the Asian Pacific Islanders Civic Action Network, said in a news release about the lawsuit.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics. Eoff says the University of Arkansas at Monticello is a primary training ground for teachers in her region, though its number of student teaching interns has dropped along with other areas of the state in recent years.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 2, 2024

Why is it essential to teach democratic citizenship and civic engagement? She promotes informed and engaged citizenship as a TV host, civic leader, and organizer of local and statewide political debates. She is also the director of PVCC’s Quality Enhancement Plan, Civic Sense: engaging students in the civic life of their communities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Since the Obama Administration created DACA in 2012, more than 825,000 undocumented immigrants have successfully applied for the protection. Arciniega, a fellow at the University of California Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, specifically studies how immigration status motivates some students to turn to activism.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

He had stellar grades in high school and is civic- minded, taking after his mother, who works as a community organizer in Thibodaux. The university’s six-year graduation rate for black students cratered to 22 percent in 2012. He was exactly the kind of student Nicholls hoped to attract.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In recent years, a number of states have passed civics testing mandates to pressure students to become more civically active. And how useful is civic education for those who chose to get involved? One idea that’s taken root is forcing students to take a civics test as a requirement for high school graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

14, 2012, the day that 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Done right, these conversations can help prevent a future “day after,” said Darcy Richie, senior director of program and impact for Generation Citizen , a civics education organization that supports students getting involved in local issues.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

Highline Superintendent Susan Enfield joined the district in 2012 after serving as interim superintendent in Seattle. In 2012-13, 10.4 The district reports that the number of AP classes taken has vaulted from slightly more than 1,000 in 2012-13 to 1,627 five years later. percent from 2012-13 to 2014-15.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

In 2012, the district was in “financial freefall,” according to a news release quoting then-state Superintendent Mike Flanagan. It suffocates the civic impulse. It, in turn, provided a 2012 news release in which Flanagan said, “We must do everything we can to protect the students and educators from feeling the brunt of the impact.”.

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

Smith, Professor of Political Science, Emporia State University Between 10 and 15 years ago, Political Science experienced a renewed interest in civic education. Graham and I collaborated, and I reached out to local high school civics teachers in Kansas and western Missouri in hopes of meeting with them and sharing our ideas.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Dittmar was an American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellow from 2011 to 2012. Entry 1: Preparing Students for the 2024 Election: Civic and Campus Engagement Entry 2: Engaging the 2024 U.S. Dittmar’s research focuses on gender and American political institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Americans ages 18 to 24 have historically voted in very low proportions — 15 to 20 percentage points below the rest of the population as recently as the presidential election years of 2008 and 2012 , with an even bigger gap in the 2010 midterm s, according to the U.S. Tisch College of Civic Life. “It Census Bureau.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Three states — Florida, Illinois and Massachusetts — have in recent years revamped their social studies and civic education standards and have created legislation to implement modern civic education. Spend some time on news literacy and Civic Online Reasoning. And this election is far more polarizing than the one in 2012.).

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