2015 Civics Government 
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow.
Political Science Now
APRIL 22, 2025
Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. Before his career in higher education, Rogelio worked in the federal government at the U.S. We will continue the conversation with both APSA and WPSA Community College faculty members.
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 20, 2017
For example, in the 2015 Kentucky gubernatorial election, when the voter turnout was a dismal 30.6 The answer starts in the classroom, where civics education often fails to inspire and engage students. As with any other core subject we study, acts of democracy and civic collaboration must be practiced and honed in our schools.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 9, 2017
But as more schools, districts, states and even the federal government begin to embrace the idea, personalized learning is coming into conflict with an older movement in American education: standards-based accountability. At the same time, the new federal education law passed in 2015 has removed some of No Child Left Behind’s teeth.
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. My students are all about social media.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 5, 2019
Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Percentage point change, 2015–2016.
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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