The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. “They got duped.”. Or, as one student put it, loudly, “fudge nuggets!”. This isn’t just a problem with kids,” said Wineburg.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

At the same time, the new federal education law passed in 2015 has removed some of No Child Left Behind’s teeth. Common Core still stands in most states, but many have tweaked the standards and changed the name to something less politically charged. Most personalized learning advocates wouldn’t disagree.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

This is why Baton Rouge businessman Lane Grigsby ‘s Empower Louisiana political action committee has been able to raise more than $2 million in 2015 from New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, Laura and John Arnold, Alice and Jim Walton of the Wal-Mart Waltons and Eli Broad. A negative educational system stifles it.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2017

While more than half of community colleges offered child care in 2004, for example, just 44 percent offered it in 2015; the figure for public four-year schools also dropped below 50 percent over the same time span. The proportion of community colleges offering on-campus child care fell from more than half in 2004 to just 44 percent in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Department of Education data from 2015, since the 2008-2009 school year there’s been a 30 percent drop in enrollment nationwide: 75 percent of enrollees in traditional programs are white, 11 percent Hispanic, and 9 percent black. Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics. But rural districts aren’t the only problem. According to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

If public schools are to advance the future interests of all Americans, then it must be considered a civic imperative to engage our students with a far wider diversity of other backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We need to expect more from our civic institutions and from one another.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

It’s simply harder for individuals to seek redress against what is really a coalition between powerful neighborhood groups, civic leaders and school system heads. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in this list, but Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced earlier this summer they were scaling back civil rights investigations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Percentage point change, 2015–2016. Ole Miss did add black freshmen in 2015, but black enrollment at both the universities of Alabama and Missouri have continued to fall. When Lockett enrolled in 2015, his was the first undergraduate class with at least 3,000 black students — a total that comprised 12.15 Flagship institution.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

They are careful to clarify that these forecasts are not meant to be read as “predictions,” but rather “insights about the wide range of possibilities for what might happen in the future,” as Jason Swanson wrote at the end of 2015 , kicking off a blog series looking back at how much of their first forecast became a reality.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Across academic, philanthropic, and civic sectors, local leaders are creating awareness and access to meaningful, equitable learning experiences for young people and their families — both in and out of school.? . — Dana Borrelli-Murray (@DBorrelliMurray) September 24, 2019. — Grant Knowles (@GrantLearns) September 24, 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Students work on an assignment in a high school civics class. That’s what happened at the University of California, Santa Cruz, which in a 2015 draft strategic plan said it was “ asking every program on campus to review its degree requirements and, where possible, to reduce them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Related: Making America whole again via civics education. En 2015, Generation Citizen, una organización sin fines de lucro, lanzó una campaña nacional para extender los derechos de voto a los adolescentes en las elecciones locales. También podía dar la perspectiva de lo que los estudiantes ven en sus escuelas todos los días”, agrega.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

When McWilliams first took the Praxis in March of 2015, she easily passed the reading portion but failed the math and writing sections. Consisting of four to five different tests, Praxis exams measure would-be teachers’ content knowledge in subjects that include math and reading. On her next try, she passed writing, but still failed math.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

It suffocates the civic impulse. Don Weatherspoon, another emergency manager, announced the closing of Highland Park’s only high school in 2015, citing declining enrollment. New Orleans has 82 public schools, according to the OPSB’s 2015-2016 annual report. Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park. “It

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

About one in six 16- to 24-year-olds are neither working nor in school, according to Tulane University’s Cowen Institute, which in 2015 calculated the city’s rate of opportunity youth at 18 percent, one of the highest in the nation. A favorite civics teacher pulled her aside and told her that her schoolwork was academically strong. “If

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

I've been very involved in the civic life of my community — I've been very involved in the nonprofit world and the political world — and when I thought about my voice as a photographer, I found myself drawn to topics that were of interest in the course of my civic life. I've been a civic activist my entire life.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. In 2015, Rutgers-Newark’s six-year graduation rate was 64 percent for black students and 63 percent for white students, compared with 40 percent and 61 percent respectively at public institutions nationally.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It also gives students – in our case predominantly Black, Latino and Asian – a better understanding of the importance of civic engagement for addressing social and racial inequities, especially relevant during these times of political polarization and protest.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

These defeats have been discouraging to educators who feel their contributions to the state’s economic and civic well-being have been overlooked. The opening of three charter schools since 2015 hasn’t helped, costing the district students and the money that would come with them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

Related: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson In the aftermath of this national tragedy, I was tasked to take over leadership at Stoneman Douglas to guide the school in its recovery. The number of incidents has been rising dramatically since 2015.

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Political Science Now

MAY 16, 2024

Schaffner , Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies, Tufts University, American Mosaic: The Social Identities That Define Our Politics and a Path to Bridge the Divide Chris Tausanovitch , Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Why Do Moderate Voters Elect Polarized Candidates? residency status.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

million in state funds for a three-year pilot that would incorporate labor history in civics, economics and history classes, along with simulations like those run by the DePaul center. .… Working people standing together did that.”. CFT, which represents roughly 120,000 educators, is lobbying for $2.7

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, it took two months longer to hit that dubious target. Just as it’s easier for students to learn French by speaking it in France, we need civics, literature and science to be practiced in communities rocked by nonsensical violence. As of May 31, there were 300 shooting victims in New Orleans.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Kirk: One idea picking up steam is to promote civic dialog in and out of the classroom. He leads a program called College Presidents for Civic Preparedness to help those students, faculty and administrators. Yet many colleges spent the summer preparing and bracing for more protests. Kirk: That’s Raj Vannakota. They do this.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Then I think about the kinds of disciplinary sources I want to feature and the kinds of formal and informal performance tasks I’ll use to assess student learning (Swan, Grant, & Lee, 2015).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. That decline in funding has been accompanied by academic stagnation.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Back when she arrived in Tulsa from Rhode Island in 2015, she was the last person local teachers would have imagined as their standard bearer. From 2009 to 2015, Gist embarked on an ambitious mission to reform education in a state tiny enough to make it a perfect petri dish for quick and dramatic change.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In 2015, NYC Service , a city agency focused on increasing volunteerism and civic engagement, announced the goal of engaging 30,000 youth ages 14-21 on new youth leadership councils working in policy and practice or service by 2020.” Criminal justice, transportation, parks and recreation and other social services can use a boost.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In July, the administration announced that it was ending the Obama-era approach to affirmative action in colleges and universities, despite research showing that campuses with diverse populations have more civic-minded student bodies and are more effective in educating students. We do not want to go backward.”. This isn’t speculative.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

April 20, 2015. 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. She locked her classroom door every day for the rest of the school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Officials have to consider deep pockets of poverty in black neighborhoods put on full display during the Freddie Gray uprising in 2015. Related: COLUMN: Charter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their movement. That spring, Gray died while in police custody under suspicious circumstances.

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