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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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Past Events include: Preparing Students for the 2024 Election: Civic and Campus Engagement Engaging the 2024 U.S. Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. King is an assistant professor of political science and geography at Old Dominion University.

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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

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. Teacher shortage is primarily a function of race and geography,” the authors wrote. Barton teaches English full-time at Clarksdale High School.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Her efforts led the state to revoke the permit in 2016. That was a real civics lesson she will never forget. People thought of our fight to stop the incinerator cute after school hobby,” Watford told Time magazine in 2016. “It Watford mobilized her impoverished neighborhood of Curtis Bay, canvassing the area for four years.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Her most recent book, “The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race” (NYU, 2016), examines the multiple and strategic ways that President Obama uses race to deflect negative racial attitudes and engage with a broad cross-section of voters. magna cum laude) in geography at Prairie View A&M University and her M.A.

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