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A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.) Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

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MAY 19, 2024

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

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JULY 17, 2017

Since its launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent, according to New York State education department figures , the highest rate the city has achieved in more than a decade. There was so much acrimony and such a history of distrust and malfunction.”.

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Opening the doors to elite public schools

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

and Jessica Hockett found in 2012. “We have far too many kids in the city who just need an opportunity like I did, to go to a school that pushes them,” said Valenzuela, who teaches history at Boston Latin Academy. Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images.

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Black colleges can revive American cities

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

His mother chaired the university’s history department. 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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Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics. This year there may be as few as 19. She is 35, and this wasn’t exactly her plan. “My I know it’s all in the same branch but,” she says, laughing, “I’m studying it and teaching it.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

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APRIL 18, 2016

Osborn, who graduated from Clinton in 2005 and returned five years ago to teach history at the high school, said the benefits of Clinton’s plan stuck out to him even as a kid. You can usually trace it back to strong civic leadership,” McGraw said.

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Without local school boards, parents in poor communities lose their vote

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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times

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JANUARY 24, 2024

There is a long history of US imperial politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. 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. This gives the appearance that the hearts were shot from the gun.

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Students Call for Hands-On Civic Education to Prepare Them for Democracy

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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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Making America whole again via civics education

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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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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

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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Last week was tough, teachers say. But it wasn’t the first difficult ‘day after’ they’ve faced

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

The subject line read: “Living history.”. history teacher scrambles to explain unprecedented attacks and desecration of democracy. From then on, Patrie, a science teacher, started difficult days by asking her students how they felt — an approach recommended by the education nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves. Related: A U.S.

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College student voting is way up

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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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A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children

Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

Opening the doors to elite public schools

Black colleges can revive American cities

Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

How one Mississippi district made integration work

Without local school boards, parents in poor communities lose their vote

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times

Students Call for Hands-On Civic Education to Prepare Them for Democracy

Making America whole again via civics education

Not all towns are created equal, digitally

Last week was tough, teachers say. But it wasn’t the first difficult ‘day after’ they’ve faced

College student voting is way up

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