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. High School social studies teacher. They got duped.”. Or, as one student put it, loudly, “fudge nuggets!”. Janis Schachter, Northport (N.Y.)

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K-12 Primary Sources Civics Social Studies 99

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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Civics Education Government K-12 126

Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Including the Electoral College in your civics and government class is essential. And since it’s a bit complicated, it’s a great topic to spend a few days on because there are so many ways to practice critical thinking and general social studies skills. Want these activities and more to bring into your Civics class?

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Teaching Civics Government Archiving 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

How have we, as educators, failed to teach white students about social studies? It has promoted an education that is bound by the limits of standardized tests and rote memorization and that leaves little if any room for students to learn about this nation’s past, to engage in social studies or to learn scientific methods.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 5, 2023

Tim Slekar, Director of the Educator Preparation Program at Muskingum University in Ohio comments here on the recent report that NAEP scores in history and civics dropped during the pandemic. There were no headlines about the dismal state of teaching and learning American history and civics in 2018. I wrote the above in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. history and civics, and many leave school with big gaps in political knowledge.

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Teaching Civics American History Controversial Topics 139

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Political neutrality “is really difficult to navigate, because it seems like as a country, we can’t even agree on some of the basic facts,” said Isabel Morales, a high school social studies teacher in Los Angeles. Mark Gomez, a history and social studies curriculum specialist for the Salinas Union High School District.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

To the relief of many, it appears that this time — unlike in 2000 and 2016 — the candidate who got the most votes nationwide also won the presidential election. Textbooks and mainstream civics curricula make the same mistake, stipulating the brilliance of the framers, the democratic nature of our system and the infallibility of the U.S.

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Civics Government History Social Studies 145