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. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,

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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.

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Civics U

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As of August 2016, according to the American Immigration Council, this limit was set at 675,000 permanent immigrants. As of August 2016, the per-country ceiling was set at 7 percent of the total number of people immigrating to the United States in a fiscal year. The Act established worldwide limits on immigration.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

For example: Baltimore County Public Schools created the position of director of innovation and digital safety, its closest equivalent, around 2016. Unlike mythical unicorns, though, some of these school privacy officers actually exist.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

YouthForce is an education, business and civic collaborative that helps prepare public school students in New Orleans for in-demand career pathways. The organization partners with schools in the city to place students in paid internships with employers in “high-wage, high-demand” careers.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I was the mother of a 4-year-old daughter, and I was consumed by worries about child care, the car note for my used Honda Civic and saving for my own apartment. But just 3,300 of the more than 4 million student parents received assistance through the program in the 2016-17 school year. In addition, I had $30,000 in student debt.

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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. This is her third year in the profession.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In 2016, they had a hallway conversation about how toxic polarization in the U.S. But in 2016, I became increasingly concerned with the intensifying political unrest I witnessed at home—a topic I explored in a recent book, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In the fall of 2016, increasingly frustrated by his inability to motivate his students despite his energetic teaching style and popularity inside the classroom, he was drawn to the idea that addressing emotional barriers might help them. In 2016, a mere 37 percent of the school’s test-takers passed. His students chop off the “Mr.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2022

This was achieved in Austin, Texas, after the city created its Equity Office in 2016. Civic and education leaders can use this prime opportunity to invest in initiatives that truly push our society forward, one school and one neighborhood at a time. We can’t let this moment go to waste.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Students who have high-quality arts learning opportunities may be among tomorrow’s great artists, and they also may be among tomorrow’s health care professionals, engineers and civic leaders. No matter the path, arts education provides a way to creative careers of the future.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

When I came to LaGuardia in 2016, I didn’t plan on going to college. 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. Through these jobs, I’ve grown professionally and connected with people who support and inspire me.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Not long after Cortez Moss accepted the job as principal of Quitman County Middle School in 2016, he realized that his first months would be devoted nearly entirely to teacher recruitment. These defeats have been discouraging to educators who feel their contributions to the state’s economic and civic well-being have been overlooked.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

In January 2016, as tensions boiled over the recent water crisis in Flint, Michigan, I felt anger and frustration — and a twinge of excitement. How refreshing it was to encounter a student’s civic-mindedness in chemistry class! Flint, Michigan — The water tower of the Flint Water Treatment plant. Excitement? Yes, I was excited.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Since then, the numbers have slipped to the single digits, with just 5 percent of the class of 2016 finishing within six years, according to a data analysis from the charter school network. The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The best civics teachers also help students learn the skills they need to protect their rights. Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Even though this crucial completion figure hit 84 percent in 2016, up from 71 percent in 2001, the nation is off pace when it comes to reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2020. Young people represent untapped potential in a nation that needs their talents — socially, economically and civically. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

But, with an eye toward local accountability and sustainability, the program demanded that the bulk of the heavy lifting, both financial and strategic, be done through a collaboration among city and education officials, community organizations, civic groups and local philanthropy. The real Say Yes story will be told in 20 years.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Related: Making America whole again via civics education. Los votantes de Berkeley aprobaron una medida que otorga a los jóvenes de 16 y 17 años el derecho a votar por los miembros de la junta escolar en 2016, pero se ha estancado en medio de obstáculos financieros y logísticos.

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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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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2017

According to a new report by Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, during the 2014-15 school year, the difference between the graduation rates of black and white students in the state was one of the smallest in the country. There is an 11.4

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Related: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson. The teacher, Charlotte Dial of Success Academy charter school in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, was suspended and investigated in 2016, but she returned to her post a week and a half later, according to a New York Times report.

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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

MARCH 5, 2018

In 2016 schools earned the 25-point incentive for a total of only 41 students citywide; the 2017 total was worse, a mere 17 students. A favorite civics teacher pulled her aside and told her that her schoolwork was academically strong. “If But they never would tell me how to go to school when I was going through something.”.

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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). She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (2016).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

In 2016, 44 percent of Louisiana’s high school graduates were black. Percentage point change, 2015–2016. In Mississippi, the number of black freshmen declined by more than 100 students and 6 percentage points between 2010 and 2016. It’s been a huge shift, and we’re really proud of it.” Flagship institution.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So Joffe created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm. A Tufts University report found that between the 2012 and 2016 elections, voting turnout increased by 5.5

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

In the fall of 2016, she started classes in King’s brand-new building, set amid blocks of thick, tall weeds, signs of the neighborhood’s badly stalled recovery from Katrina. She was still feeling wounded the next morning, as she stood by her sister Taravia’s black Honda Civic. 8 on her list. Related: The lost children of Katrina.

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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

MAY 23, 2021

From 2014 to 2016, Ebola ravaged several West African countries, killing thousands and spreading isolated cases to both Europe and the United States. Brown crafted civics lessons about outbreak response for his eighth graders at Sarasota Military Academy Prep, a charter middle school. Starting at 8 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Civic project’ or ‘land grab’? A lawsuit briefly halted the Bollinger plan because judges agreed it was not a “civic project.” He died in 2016. “They have a very powerful board, they talk to the mayor,” she said. “I I think it should be looked at, particularly in the years coming up. After then-Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A group of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP Boston Branch, the Greater Boston Latino Network, the Asian Pacific Islanders Civic Action Network and the Asian American Resource Workshop, as well as three families of color, are intervening in the lawsuit to try to uphold the new admissions process.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

And that knowledge, she believes — combined with new strategies to help students regulate their emotions — has contributed to a 43 percent drop in the number of children referred for discipline from 2014 to 2016, according to school data. The number edged back up in 2016-17 to 682 incidents.). Progress was swift. In 2012-13, 10.4

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

This reality, and the election’s result, has made us reflect on our own work, asking whether we should make a more intentional effort to ensure that civics education is a subject that is actively pursued beyond just the coastal areas. The only road to such an outcome is giving students the chance to become civically engaged early on.

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