The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2020
“Teaching about civic engagement only once in a while is like teaching someone how to swim without ever putting them in the water.” Heather Van Benthuysen, director, Chicago Public Schools Department of Social Science and Civic Engagement.
Political Science Now
JULY 11, 2024
Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. She is the recipient of the Barbara Burch Award for Faculty Leadership in Civic Engagement (American Democracy Project, June 2024) and the Stand Out Faculty Award (ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, November 2019).
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ED Surge
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
In a study conducted at Carnegie Mellon University in 2016, researchers monitored the brain activity of study participants as they confronted complex math problems that demanded creative mathematical reasoning.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2020
A Tufts University report found that between the 2012 and 2016 elections, voting turnout increased by 5.5 It’s definitely not the fact that young Black people are not civically engaged, or that they’re not politically inclined.”. percentage points among white students, 7 points among Hispanic students and 7.8 percent to 49.6
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 28, 2020
This year is anything but usual, of course, and the pandemic’s ramifications for in-person civic engagement could make voting harder for young people than it already was. Just 8 percent of Black 18-to-29-year-olds voted by mail in 2016, compared with 20 percent of white voters their age who did the same, the researchers found.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
YoungMoo Kim, director of the ExCITe Center at Drexel University , connected with the EdClusters network in 2016 and has begun to use the model as a guide for fostering deep education innovation partnerships within the city. Philadelphia is at the initial stages of this work. YoungMoo Kim Director, ExCITe Center at Drexel University.
Teaching American History
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan. Our Apprenticeship in Liberty Begins at the Local Level “Civics class should give students an apprenticeship in liberty ,” Wregglesworth argued. Peters agreed.
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